North Atlantic Treaty Organisation allies advance plans for east Europe troop deployment

“We are not in a Cold War situation”, he said, referring to when 300,000 United States service personnel were stationed in Europe.

“Nato does not seek confrontation with Russian Federation”.

This is the biggest troop deployment on the Russian border ever since the Cold War.

U.S. Secretary of Defense Ash Carter announced a “battle-ready battalion task force” of around 900 soldiers would be sent to eastern Poland.

The decision to deploy “heavy weaponry” to Lithuania – which borders Russian Federation – was confirmed by German Defence Minister Ursula con der Leyen during a crucial meeting in Brussels.

North Atlantic Treaty Organisation said that around 1,000 soldiers are now on the move to Lithuania.

Just imagine what would happen if Russian troops amassed along the Mexican border and told the United States that this move was to ‘prevent conflict’. “[But] it hardly appears unaffordable, especially in comparison with the potential costs of failing to defend Nato’s most exposed and vulnerable allies-that is, of potentially inviting a devastating war, rather than deterring it”.

World War 3 News 2016 has revealed that the United Kingdom has deployed 800 troops to the Russian border along with drones and tanks.

Russia has repeatedly shown dissatisfaction for the collapse of the Russia-US-brokered ceasefire agreement, which it blames on US for failing to separate “moderate” oppositions from terrorist groups in Syria.

Four countries – Albania, Italy, Poland and Slovenia – have promised to contribute troops and equipment to a Canadian-led North Atlantic Treaty Organisation force that is being organized in Latvia in response to recent Russian actions in Eastern Europe.

Relations may have reached a new low, but there is a sense neither side truly wants a full-scale conflict.

Mr Stoltenberg said the troop contributions to a new 4,000-strong force in the Baltics and eastern Europe were a measured response to what the alliance believes are some 330,000 Russian troops stationed on Russia’s western flank near Moscow.

Stoltenberg went on to accuse Russian Federation of continuing its support for rebels in Ukraine, which it officially denies. It’s normal practice for Spain to allow Russian warships to stop at its ports, The Associated Press reports.

Russian Federation considers the move as the biggest military build-up on its borders since the end of the Cold War.

Until now, Russian Federation and the USA have been fighting through third parties, just as they had during the previous Cold War, and the same type of situation is developing today. “That would off course set off immediate diplomatic crisis”, he said.

“But we have to do that based on collective defence deterrents”.

Romania and Britain will join a US-led battalion in Poland. He noted that Poland has become a leader of NATO’s eastern members and the Polish government sought America’s participation given its status as the most powerful member of the alliance.

Members of the British Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment establish a position while participating in the NATO “Spring Storm” military exercises on May 18, 2014 near Sengaste, Estonia. Latvia and Lithuania plan to meet that target by 2018.

The deployment is in addition to the troops Canada has already committed to Operation Reassurance in Eastern Europe. Vice Admiral James Foggo, who heads the U.S. Navy fleet in Europe, said he expected Moscow to react negatively when Washington breaks ground on a missile defense site in Poland in late November.