Barack Obama has deployed thousands of troops and tanks to the Russian border in an attempt to spark a military conflict with Russia, just days ahead of Trump’s inauguration. The lame duck president sent 3,000 U.S. troops to Poland on Thursday as part of a war-game exercise, which prompted a swift response from Putin. “These actions threaten our interests, our security,” President Vladimir Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov said. “Especially as it concerns a third party building up its military presence near our borders. It’s not even a European state.” Antiwar.com reports: Unlike a lot of more specific war-games simulating explicit wars on certain fronts, Atlantic Resolve was initially launched just to spite Russia over the civil war in Eastern Ukraine, and seems to be designed more or less to simply antagonize Russia militarily. And it’s doing it’s job, in that event, as Russian officials expressed serious concern over the matter, saying they believe the advance of a large number of US troops heading toward Russia is a threat to national security. They also added that they don’t appreciate having a large number of troops massed on their European border by a nation that isn’t even European. In addition to being [...]
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