Posted BY: Zero Hedge
NATO is preparing to hold its largest-ever air exercises this June, known as Exercise Air Defender, that will involve 220 aircraft and 10,0000 personnel from 24 nations.
The drills will include a massive deployment of aircraft from the US Air National Guard, which is tasked with defending the homeland but, according to Defense One, also maintains units for “prompt mobilization during the war.”
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The exercises will mark the largest US air forces deployment to Europe for NATO drills since the alliance was founded in 1949.
The purpose of the drills is to simulate what the US would have to do if the war in Ukraine spread into NATO territory.
“This is now putting the alliance together quickly, with a credible force, to make sure that if Russia ever lines up on the NATO border, that we’re ready to go,” said Lt. Gen. Michael Loh, the head of the Air National Guard. “We’re going to defend every inch.”
The drills will take place from June 12-23 and will stretch from Iceland to Romania, with most flights taking place over Germany and the North Sea. The massive show of force is a clear message to Russia and comes as the US and NATO are escalating support for their proxy war against Moscow in Ukraine.
Finland, which formally joined NATO on Tuesday, will participate in the drills. By admitting Finland, NATO has more than doubled its territory on the Russian border, a region that will now inevitably be further militarized.
What about the global warming from the aircraft exhausts ? have they forgotten, or is it “ one rule for us and another one for them ?”
1) That was a terrible move on Finland’s part to join NATO, esp. at this particularly sensitive time. Russia has shown no sign of wanting to push West, just to defuse the Kiev regime (born of the 2014 overthrow of the duly-elected government) which has been shelling the eastern, primarily ethnic Russian areas and to close down the bioweapons labs dotted around the Ukrainian territory, threatening their Motherland. Peace talks are in order; not escalatory activity.
2) The U.S.National Guard needs to come home. Not only because it is a national guard, not properly part of an international military body. But because the Deep State, in beginning to lose its grip on power in this country, and thus its plans for world domination, might escalate things to civil war status, and the Guard will be needed here at home, to protect the (Restored) Republic from those who are attempting to bring it down. As they need to be rooted out. Having the Guard away from here is part of the plot, to attempt to establish a dystopian NWO. Which is the reverse image of The RealThing. Time to start setting things to rights. In this country. And the world as a whole. The Grand Morality Play that we humans have been engaged in for so long coming to a Close, with Graduation time upon us.