The only question here is who will be the first to colonize Europe? America or Islam. One of them will. One of them has to because there are no leaders in Europe sensible enough to rescue the continent from its invaders.
Anneke de Laaf
Old news of course, several years ago Washington instructed its European vassals to improve their infrastructure (yes, how ironic, considering the state of US infrastructure) to accommodate US troops movements.
The Netherlands plays a crucial part in the Yankee plans (thus becoming even more of a target than we already are 🤨). Unfortunately for Washington, the pace of infrastructure improvement here falls far short of eg. the Chinese pace, we often don’t even meet the Communist 5-year-plan. So I hope the Yanks aren’t planning this invasion any time soon, because they will be disappointed.
Of course if it does come to this Yankee war on Russia, troops movements will be irrelevant, there won’t be a frontline, there will only be wasteland - and death all around. I expect NATO knows this. So this is all just postering, to show Washington still calls the shots in Europe. As bullies do.
MOSCOW, June 4 – RIA Novosti. The North Atlantic Alliance is preparing a plan for the transfer of troops from the United States to Europe in the event of war with Russia, writes the British newspaper The Telegraph, citing sources.
“NATO is working on multiple “land corridors” to quickly move American soldiers and armored vehicles to the front lines in the event of a major land war with Russia in Europe,” the publication says.
It is assumed that the US Armed Forces will land at one of five predetermined ports and then will be transferred along prepared logistics routes, the publication’s interlocutors clarified.
According to the newspaper, NATO plans to land American forces in the Netherlands ‼️, from where they will be transported by rail through Germany to Poland. The alliance also wants to involve the ports of Norway, Italy, Greece, Turkey, Sweden, Finland and the Baltic countries.
Within the created transport corridors, troops will be able to move without “usually imposed restrictions,” the material states.
As Lieutenant General Alexander Sollfrank, head of NATO's Joint Support and Logistics Command (JSEC), told the newspaper, the experience of combat operations in Ukraine has shown that large logistics bases, like in Iraq and Afghanistan, are no longer relevant, because in the event of a conflict they will be quickly destroyed . In his opinion, the new plan has been prepared taking into account such risks and involves the creation of “sustainable” transport chains.
Vladimir Putin emphasized in an interview with American journalist Tucker Carlson that Moscow is not going to attack NATO countries, there is no point in this. The head of state noted that Western politicians regularly intimidate their populations with an imaginary Russian threat in order to divert attention from internal problems.
Aggressive rhetoric of Western politicians
In the West, there has recently been more and more talk about direct intervention in the Ukrainian conflict. Thus, French President Emmanuel Macron stated that Paris does not exclude the possibility of sending troops to the combat zone if Russia breaks through the front line and Kiev asks for help. He also claimed that "many countries" agreed with his approach about possibly sending in the military.
At the same time, in early May, his words were denied by NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. According to him, the alliance is not going to send troops to Ukraine, and Kyiv did not ask for this. The Secretary General stressed that he does not see an “imminent risk” of a Russian attack on allies in the bloc.
As the Corriere della Sera newspaper pointed out, at the July NATO summit they may approve a declaration that stipulates a refusal to directly intervene in the conflict in Ukraine. According to the publication, one of the key phrases in the draft of this document is “No boots on the ground.”
Against the backdrop of bellicose statements by Western politicians, exercises of missile formations of the Southern Military District began in Russia on behalf of Vladimir Putin . These maneuvers practice the use of non-strategic nuclear weapons.
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Ukraine missile strike on Russian soil
'likely' used U.S. weapon system
June 4 (UPI) -- A strike by Ukrainian forces on a Russian air-defense missile battery inside Russian territory was likely carried out using a U.S.-made weapons system, a leading American think-tank said Tuesday.
The attack on the Russian S-300/400 battery north of Belogorod city about 25 miles from the Ukraine border over the weekend was probably conducted with a High Mobility Artillery Rocket System, the Institute for the Study of War said in a post on X.
The Washington-based non-profit research group said the strike picked up on geolocation images of two destroyed launchers and a damaged air defense command post in a field near Kiselyovo village "was likely with HIMARS."
If confirmed, the strike would be the first time Ukraine has used U.S.-supplied weapons to strike at targets inside Russia since U.S. President Joe Biden cleared their use last week for limited strikes against military targets on Russian territory that pose an imminent threat amid Russia's offensive in Ukraine's northeast.
"Russian sources have increasingly claimed that Ukrainian forces are using HIMARS to strike Belgorod oblast since the United States partially lifted its restrictions on Ukraine's ability to use U.S.-provided weapons to strike military targets in Russian border areas with Kharkiv oblast," The Institute for the Study of War said.
"Russian sources will likely continue to characterise any successful strike in Belgorod Oblast as a HIMARS strike regardless of the system used."
The HIMARS launch system fires either Guided Multiple Launch Rocket System rockets or a single long-range Army Tactical Missile System missile making its use a potential breach of Biden administration's waiver which made it clear that its "policy with respect to prohibiting the use ATACMS or long-range strikes inside of Russia has not changed."
A Ukrainian government official alluded to the new permissions but did not explicitly state U.S. weapons were used.
"It burns beautifully. It's a Russian S-300. On Russian territory. The first days after permission to use Western weapons on enemy territory," read the caption to a photo posted on social media by government minister Iryna Vereshchuk.
ISW warned authorization to use Western-supplied weapons against Russia was "crucial for Ukraine to repel Russian glide bomb and missile strikes against Kharkiv city," backing plans by Foreign Minister Dmytro Kuleba to push Ukraine's Western partners harder to ease restrictions on how arms can be used and give the green light to hit targets inside Russia.
The call comes as Italy announced it would be providing Ukraine with a second Samp/T anti-ballistic missile air defense system -- Europe's answer to the U.S. Patriot Missile System -- which has the ability to track dozens of targets and intercept 10 simultaneously.
Meanwhile, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz insisted that firing German and other Western-supplied weapons at targets on Russian soil would not "contribute to escalation."
Germany, which has been highly cautious on the issue reversed its position last week in step with Washington, saying Ukraine could use weapons provided to it by Germany in the battle for Kharkiv province which has been raging for almost a month.
"We are certain that it will not contribute to an escalation because -- as (U.S. President Joe Biden) has also described -- it is only a matter of being able to defend a large city like Kharkiv," Scholz said Monday in comments to a German radio station.
The speculation about the HIMARS strike came a day after the Kremlin issued a stark warning about the risks of escalating the conflict and a ramping up of the threat to security posed by allowing Ukraine to fire U.S.-supplied weapons into Russia.
"I would like to warn American leaders against miscalculations that could have fatal consequences," said Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov.
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