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NATO puts 300,000 troops on 'high alert' in readiness for a confrontation with Russia
Daily Mail (UK) ^ | 11/7/2016 | CHRIS SUMMERS

Posted on 11/07/2016 10:57:30 AM PST by tekrat

Nato chiefs, thrown into a panic by fears that Russian President Vladimir Putin might attack the West, are scrambling to put together a force of 300,000 troops which they can put on 'high alert'.

Relations between Russia and the West have plunged in the last year, with Moscow's insistence on backing its Syrian ally, President Bashar al-Assad, at all costs leading to serious tension with the US, Britain and France.

Most Nato members cut their defence spending dramatically since the Soviet Union collapsed in 1991 but Russia has been bolstering its military capabilities, holding parades involving more than 100,000 troops each year.

(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia; Syria; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: 201611; bhorussia; estonia; nato; putin; russia; saberrattling
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1 posted on 11/07/2016 10:57:30 AM PST by tekrat
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To: tekrat

300,000?


2 posted on 11/07/2016 10:58:52 AM PST by rktman (Enlisted in the Navy in '67 to protect folks rights to strip my rights. WTH?!)
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To: tekrat

Russia won’t attack, Hitlery will.


3 posted on 11/07/2016 10:59:01 AM PST by Dallas59 (Only a fool stumbles on things behind him.)
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To: tekrat

Good job Hillary.


4 posted on 11/07/2016 10:59:06 AM PST by Brilliant
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Without the US Army, NATO cannot field 300k combat troops.

No way.


5 posted on 11/07/2016 10:59:35 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: tekrat

Another triumph of obama foreign policy.

No longer any need for flashlights, since we’ll all soon be glowing in the dark.


6 posted on 11/07/2016 10:59:40 AM PST by Jack Hammer
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To: tekrat

She really wants this war.


7 posted on 11/07/2016 11:02:50 AM PST by Salvey
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To: tekrat

Forget the ammo and save the beer-German Army


8 posted on 11/07/2016 11:02:54 AM PST by Dr. Ursus
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Obama in Syria, Obama in Ukraine, UK and France in Syria, Obama in Norway, Obama in Poland, Nato now...

the extreme Leftist warmongering class
is trying to provoke the next World War

(and for what!? Russia is a natural ally for USA against our IslamoNazi enemies.........so why attack Russia? Answer: they’re sold out to Saudi and Soros and they’re gonna get us into a disasterous nuclear and worse war FOR NOTHING EXCEPT THEIR PERSONAL ENRICHMENT


9 posted on 11/07/2016 11:02:59 AM PST by faithhopecharity ("Politicians are not born. They're excreted." Marcus Tullius Cicero.)
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To: tekrat

At first I expected the article to say 300K had been ‘put on alert’ due to The Election. It has truly become an Elect-Zilla.


10 posted on 11/07/2016 11:03:24 AM PST by lee martell
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To: tekrat

BS.

The reason ‘relations’ went south between Putin and obama is obama. Period.

Or should I say the obama/clinton/jarett clan?


11 posted on 11/07/2016 11:03:33 AM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: tekrat

Suwalki Gap.


12 posted on 11/07/2016 11:04:49 AM PST by donozark (It is true after all. Hillary Clinton really IS the Fouke Monster)
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NATO couldn’t muster 30,000 for airlift to a hotzone. Their QRF is a battalion (800-1000 troops). It would take MONTHS to assemble 300,000.


13 posted on 11/07/2016 11:07:45 AM PST by DCBryan1 (No realli, moose bytes can be quite nasti!)
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To: MichaelCorleone

Putin views Obama as a child...He views Clinton as a psychopath...


14 posted on 11/07/2016 11:08:29 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: Jack Hammer

>> No longer any need for flashlights, since we’ll all soon be glowing in the dark.

When the air becomes uraneous, we all go simultaneous.


15 posted on 11/07/2016 11:09:08 AM PST by Lisbon1940 (Trump-Pence 2016: No full-term Governors!)
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To: tekrat

Madness


16 posted on 11/07/2016 11:09:10 AM PST by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: tekrat

Will be very interesting to see what Trump says after winning the election.

“Putin, dude, take a vacation for a couple months. We’ll talk in January.”


17 posted on 11/07/2016 11:09:30 AM PST by ConservativeWarrior (Fall down 7 times, stand up 8. - Japanese proverb)
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To: rktman

In WWI France alone mobilized 3,000,000 men. Now the whole of western Europe can’t scrap up a tenth of that. There they are again, on the threshold of defeat, soon to be pleading with US for help. Damnit.


18 posted on 11/07/2016 11:09:40 AM PST by PeteePie (Righteousness exalts a nation, but sin is a reproach to any people - Proverbs 14:34)
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To: donozark

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/why-suwalki-gap-keeps-top-u-s-general-europe-night-n469471


19 posted on 11/07/2016 11:09:41 AM PST by onona (Honey this isn't Kindergarten. We are in an all out war for the survival of our Country !)
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To: tekrat

No way 300, 000 will be reached. Stupid Dummycraps want a war that will leave us in a bind.

cant this POS Kenyan just go away peacefully? he’s got a few weeks left and he wants us to go to war. Seriously this IDIOT is just effing worthless.


20 posted on 11/07/2016 11:09:53 AM PST by max americana (fired every liberal in our company at every election cycle..and laughed at their faces (true story))
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