{"id":212918,"date":"2020-09-02T07:00:39","date_gmt":"2020-09-02T07:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212918"},"modified":"2020-09-04T06:09:59","modified_gmt":"2020-09-04T06:09:59","slug":"sending-a-message-u-s-army-to-hold-live-fire-drills-70-miles-from-russian-border","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=212918","title":{"rendered":"Sending a message: U.S. Army to hold live-fire drills near Russian border"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ben Wolfgang \u2013 Washington Times August 31, 2020<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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US Army Rangers fire a 120mm mortar during a drill at Camp Roberts, Calif. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n

The U.S. Army will hold live-fire drills about 70 miles from the Russian border over the next 10 days, Pentagon<\/a> officials said as they announced another show of force on Moscow\u2019s doorstep.<\/span><\/p>\n

U.S. Army Europe<\/strong><\/span><\/a>\u2019s 41st Field Artillery Brigade will conduct the Rail Gunner Rush drills in Tapa, Estonia, in partnership with Estonian Defense Forces. It\u2019s the 41st Field Artillery Brigade\u2019s first live-fire training event outside of Germany, officials said. About 70 soldiers will take part in the exercise.<\/span><\/p>\n

While the Pentagon<\/a> said the drills aren\u2019t a direct response to any recent Russian aggression, it\u2019s clear the U.S. military is taking calculated measures to send a message to an increasingly brazen Kremlin.<\/span><\/p>\n

While Estonia is a NATO member, it also was directly ruled by Moscow within living memory. The small Baltic state was a republic of the Soviet Union until the Communist regime\u2019s 1991 disintegration.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cRail Gunner Rush will demonstrate the strong bilateral partnership between the U.S. and Estonia, and test the brigade\u2019s deployment capabilities, readiness and interoperability with NATO allies,\u201d U.S. Army Europe<\/strong><\/span><\/a> said in a statement. \u201cThis routine training exercise is not tied to any current events in the region.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Just last week, U.S. B-52 bombers flew in close formation across all 30 NATO countries in another show of force in Europe.<\/span><\/p>\n

The moves come against the backdrop of increased tensions with the Russian military all over the world. In Syria last week, at least four Americans were injured when their military vehicle collided with a Russian vehicle in a disputed part of the country. The two sides traded blame for the incident and said the other had breached longstanding \u201cdeconfliction protocols.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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If the Russian Army did this near the U.S. border the media would be in uproar. But when the U.S. does it the Western media says it simply sends a message to Moscow<\/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-212918","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\/212918","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=212918"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212918\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212945,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212918\/revisions\/212945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=212918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=212918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=212918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}