... Russian markets, thirsting for technological input in exchange for raw materials. A German-Russia economic block would be an additional challenge to America, faced on its other flank by South East Asia. The crystallisation of an anti-Russian buffer in Eastern Europe would impede plans to deepen German-Russian economic cooperation. Poland and the Baltic states are already vocal today in warning against the threat of a Russian attack. Further security cooperation between these states would tighten a hostile belt along the Russian border, which would in turn increase the perception of threat from ...
... to protect its citizens living in the region. Yet Kacprzyk fails to mention that the problem of the Russian diaspora in the Baltic states could be resolved by providing them with basic human rights (right now, some 300,000 non-Latvian and 100,000 non-Estonian ... ... things, increasing the presence of NATO fighter jets in Baltic air space, carrying out surveillance flights over interested Eastern European Countries, sending more naval ships to patrol the Baltic Sea and deploying ground troops on a rotational basis....
... and continues to this day with the goal of countering the Russian Federation “
following its military intervention in Ukraine
.”
Despite the sometimes frightening activity of NATO and the U.S. in the Baltic nations as well as Central and Eastern Europe, the ultimate goal is not war, but to maintain tensions and mistrust, especially in relations between countries of the former Eastern bloc and Russia.
The uncertainty surrounding the extent of the operation as well as the $1-billion budget ...
... – of U.S. military facilities and personnel from Europe, the very simple aim of which being to save money on their upkeep.
Perhaps this is how we should look at the plans to move a part of the United States’ heavy weaponry to Poland and the Baltic states, which have become more convenient places for U.S. troops to store their military equipment, from both the political and economic points of view.
This is because the cost of stationing U.S. troops in Central and Eastern Europe and the Baltic countries, even on a temporary basis, for the purposes of carrying out manoeuvres and training local military personnel is hardly comparable to the sums that the Pentagon earmarks every year for U.S. soldiers based in Western ...
