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US, NATO Troops Parade Near Russian Border in Estonia

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US, NATO Troops Parade Near Russian Border in Estonia - ABC News

Troops and vehicles from U.S. and NATO regiments have taken part in a military parade during Estonia's Independence Day near the Russian border, in the first known official appearance of the forces so close to the former Cold War enemy.

Some 1,400 Estonian and multinational troops participated in the Tuesday parade in the eastern border town of Narva, separated from Russia by a narrow river. The annual independence parade is rotated between various Estonian towns.

It was the first time that American soldiers — based in the Baltic nations of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — have paraded so close to the Russian border.

Estonia's military said Wednesday the usual flyovers by NATO fighters during such parades were not held because international regulations forbid military flights near international borders.

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Putin's not going to like this much.
 
If the Russian Federation didn't have a massive stockpile of nuclear weapons I would have preferred isolating them from the global economic order at the end of the Cold War, allowing greater access as they made gradual democratic reforms.

Letting them in has allowed their authoritarian regime to undermine our system from within, the result being the democratic recession.

Unfortunately, we have to make efforts to preserve the stability of their government to ensure that nuke arsenal doesn't go on an international tour.
 
Our troops have the most kick-ass parades when you look at it...

Must be due to the fact that the USA is home to the most prestigious military in the world.
 
Our troops have the most kick-ass parades when you look at it...

Must be due to the fact that the USA is home to the most prestigious military in the world.

During my time on active duty and in the national guard, I only did one parade, and that was as a National Guard member.
 
One never knows what a whack job is going to do.

These states could be next on the hit list for his grand rebuilding project of the Russian empire. Based on the western response to Ukraine and even though they are NATO members Putin may well gamble that the West won't go to mushrooms over the Baltics if he plays the same 'cute' subversion game again there . He could well be right too
 
These states could be next on the hit list for his grand rebuilding project of the Russian empire. Based on the western response to Ukraine and even though they are NATO members Putin may well gamble that the West won't go to mushrooms over the Baltics if he plays the same 'cute' subversion game again there . He could well be right too

Might be something to that as well as using the current ME crises to deflect from his actions.
 
Might be something to that as well as using the current ME crises to deflect from his actions.

I honestly feel we have taken our eye off the ball here and are ignoring a far greater danger to world peace
 
Our troops have the most kick-ass parades when you look at it...

Must be due to the fact that the USA is home to the most prestigious military in the world.

Are you going to join when you're old enough?
 
NATO are going to have to do a darned sight more than participate in military parades in order to worry Putin. Stationing a tank division or two in the Baltics would do for starters.

These small countries have far larger Russian minorities to subvert than Ukraine has after all so they have plenty to worry about :(

If the European high court decides to grant asylum to an American deserter tomorrow? I don't kknow how we can dedicate troops to any European problems. That would make it really diffucult to trust them.
 
If the European high court decides to grant asylum to an American deserter tomorrow? I don't kknow how we can dedicate troops to any European problems. That would make it really diffucult to trust them.

I didn't say those tank divisions had to be American.

Putin is a Russian of the old school. Unless diplomacy has some muscle behind it it will be ignored just like it has in Ukraine.
 
I didn't say those tank divisions had to be American.

Putin is a Russian of the old school. Unless diplomacy has some muscle behind it it will be ignored just like it has in Ukraine.

You are certainly right about the nature of the beast.
 
I didn't say those tank divisions had to be American.

Putin is a Russian of the old school. Unless diplomacy has some muscle behind it it will be ignored just like it has in Ukraine.

Thats true and he can read Obama like an open book-and the word muscle isn't in there.
 
Our troops have the most kick-ass parades when you look at it...

Must be due to the fact that the USA is home to the most prestigious military in the world.

Rah rah rah, what are you anyway, a senior in high school?
 
Thats true and he can read Obama like an open book-and the word muscle isn't in there.

Yet weirdly many of your countrymen feel he is the one complicit in causing the conflict in Ukraine and not Putin ! :shock: As a non American I actually view his administration as perhaps the most isolationist we have seen since WW2. It just shows you how easily some people can be willingly propagandised and the Russians have launched a concerted assault on the free western media and cyberspace in order to confound and confuse the gullible about their latest military adventure.

They will do the same with the Baltics too once they decide its their turn :(

http://uk.businessinsider.com/milit...-into-assaults-on-baltic-capitals-2015-2?r=US

As you can see watch this space :(
 
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Rah rah rah, what are you anyway, a senior in high school?

Is it not true that we have, on paper and from what most people believe, the strongest military in the world?


"rah rah rah"

Nationalism, deal with it. There are American nationalists, that's a thing.
 
Yet weirdly many of your countrymen feel he is the one complicit in causing the conflict in Ukraine and not Putin ! :shock: As a non American I actually view his administration as perhaps the most isolationist we have seen since WW2. It just shows you how easily some people can be willingly propagandised and the Russians have launched a concerted assault on the free western media and cyberspace in order to confound and confuse the gullible about their latest military adventure.

They will do the same with the Baltics too once they decide its their turn :(

Military expert: Russian snap military drills could turn into assaults on Baltic capitals - Business Insider

As you can see watch this space :(

How many countries has Obama attacked? I dont know that I'd call him isolationist-but rather an indecisive fool. Its going to take a stronger leader to address Putin, we dont have one with Obama-and both the US and Europe need that right now.
 
How many countries has Obama attacked? I dont know that I'd call him isolationist-but rather an indecisive fool. Its going to take a stronger leader to address Putin, we dont have one with Obama-and both the US and Europe need that right now.

Putin is certainly playing him well with this Ukrainian business. It seems to me like current US foreign policy is more geared to provoking China into an arms race with it rather than addressing real issues.

This business with Russia has the potential to get right out of hand and perhaps fracture the NATO alliance altogether if its resolve gets tested in the Baltics. We have taken our eye off the ball here by appeasing a despot and historically that sort of thing never ends well.
 
Putin is certainly playing him well with this Ukrainian business. It seems to me like current US foreign policy is more geared to provoking China into an arms race with it rather than addressing real issues.

This business with Russia has the potential to get right out of hand and perhaps fracture the NATO alliance altogether if its resolve gets tested in the Baltics. We have taken our eye off the ball here by appeasing a despot and historically that sort of thing never ends well.

Thats absolutely true. I think Putin realizes he has a window here, the next two years before the 2016 presidential elections-to make whatever moves he's going to make. Nato needs a strong leader, it does not have that in Obama.
 
Pretty pictures, flying the Stars & Stripes.

If Russia were doing that in Mexico or Cuba, would we be apoplectic? ;)
 
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