{"id":199330,"date":"2019-12-16T08:25:16","date_gmt":"2019-12-16T08:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199330"},"modified":"2019-12-18T06:43:27","modified_gmt":"2019-12-18T06:43:27","slug":"the-us-will-hold-the-largest-exercises-in-europe-since-the-cold-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=199330","title":{"rendered":"The US will hold the largest exercises in Europe since the \u201ccold war\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">Steve Cowan \u2013 Free News Dec 11, 2019<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_134275\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/US-troops-en-route-to-NATO-drills-in-Lithuania-Latvia-and-Estonia.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-134275\" class=\"wp-image-134275\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/US-troops-en-route-to-NATO-drills-in-Lithuania-Latvia-and-Estonia-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-134275\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">US troops en route to NATO drills in Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia for drills in 2016. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The maneuvers are aimed at keeping Russia from acting in the spirit of the annexation of Crimea in 2014.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Twenty thousand American troops in April-May next year will go to Europe, where there will be the largest military exercises on the continent with the participation of the United States since the Cold War.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A senior NATO commander, noting that the US participation is designed to emphasize Washington\u2019s commitment to the Alliance, announced this.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A few days after the NATO summit in London, at which US President Donald Trump condemned European allies with low defense spending, US major General Barre Seguin said that the exercise, which will focus on Germany, would be the largest of its kind in 25 years.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">\u201cThey will demonstrate transatlantic unity and US commitment to NATO,\u201d Seguin, who oversees allied operations from NATO\u2019s military headquarters in Belgium, told.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">To keep Russia from actions in the spirit of the annexation of Crimea in 2014, the US army will test its ability to ship soldiers across the Atlantic to Belgium and the Netherlands with subsequent expeditious redeployment to the East through Germany to Poland and the Eastern flank of NATO.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">The soldiers will join US troops stationed on the continent and representatives of the armed forces of 18 NATO allies, after which they will return to the US. In total, about 37 thousand people will take part in the exercises.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/freenews.live\/the-us-will-hold-the-largest-exercises-in-europe-since-the-cold-war\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>37,000 NATO troops are will participate in the exercise, which is intended to deter Russia from acting in the spirit in which it \u201cannexed\u201d Crimea in 2014<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-199330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=199330"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":199332,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/199330\/revisions\/199332"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=199330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=199330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=199330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}