NATO is concerned; Extensive military exercises in the midst of the US approach to change
NATO members coinued their largest combat maneuvers of the year on Wednesday to test the ability to quickly deploy extensive forces on the eastern border of the alliance, while concerns about the most powerful member of the United States have increased.
These exercises in Romania, which are in line with Ukraine, are held as Europe is undergoing a new US -led US presidency.
US Secretary of Defense Pete Hegst has called on allies to significaly increase their military costs and say that US security priorities are elsewhere; A issue that has questioned Washington’s long -standing security guaraees.
NATO maneuver
A few days before the third anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, maneuvers of “firm spear” are held with the participation of about 6,000 troops from nine couries as part of NATO’s new “united reaction force”. These exercises take place in Romania, Bulgaria and Greece for six weeks.
Although the Trump administration has not announced a plan to withdraw US troops from the region, Hegest’s comme that “European allies must be leading” has led NATO partners to face the new fact that the United States is no longer a powerful and nuclear support of the coine’s security. It will not be.
Lashkot, on the pretext of Russia
Defense analyst Rado Theodore in Bucharest claimed that the decline in US military presence in Romania would be a gift for Russian Preside Vladimir Putin.
“The eire NATO eastern faction will weaken against Russia’s offensive behavior,” he said. “This will force Romania to ask NATO allies to supply military equipme and equipme to fill the vacuum caused by the departure of thousands of US soldiers.”
NATO maneuver
Admiral “Stewart B. Mansh, a NATO joi force commander, also claimed that threats against NATO have become “increasingly complex and unpredictable” over the past decade.
“To couer this complex security environme, NATO has had importa developmes in the field of war,” Mansh told reporters on Wednesday. We have turned our defense programs from an idea to reality. “This exercise is the result of our efforts and the beginning of a new force that will defend the territory of this alliance.”
European European allies have also expressed concern about their dismissal in talks between senior Washington and Moscow diplomats in Saudi Arabia about the end of the war in Ukraine. These rapid developmes led the French preside to hold a meeting with some EU and British couries this week in Paris.
NATO reinforces the eastern faction
Wednesday’s martial arts in Romania included shooting with real ammunition and ditch war exercises. The Greek and Spanish Marines in Greece led exercises, including a simulated blue attack.
NATO maneuver
The new NATO reaction force, founded in July last July, is designed to be widely deployed within 7 days and combines conveional forces with cyber and spatial technologies. The UK is leading the operation with 2 troops and 2 vehicles.
The exercises also include Romania, Bulgaria, France, Greece, Italy, Slovenia, Spain and Turkey, covering a total of two military vehicles, more than 2 aircraft and more than twelve naval vessels.
Following the start of the Ukrainian war on February 7, NATO strengthened its presence on the eastern wing of Europe by sending additional multinational warfare groups to Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria and Slovakia. Since then, Romania has played a more promine role in this alliance. The coury has donated a Patriot missile system to Ukraine and founded an iernational training ceer for Jet F-6 pilots from allied couries, including Ukraine.
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