Five hundred US troops and tanks have arrived in Romania in preparation for a showdown with Russia. The troops arrived in a Romanian Black Sea port on Tuesday as part of a move to help support NATO deal with so-called “Russian aggression.” Presstv.com reports: US Ambassador Hans G. Klemm said the troops would be stationed in an airbase in the country’s east on a rotating basis. Klemm added that the deployment underscores “the strong US-Romania strategic partnership exists in both word and deed,” and the presence of American soldiers “expands our capacity… in maintaining peace and security in southeastern Europe and the Black Sea region.” Reports said that the troops would take part in different multinational exercises and conduct shooting exercises with live ammunition when at Mihail Kogalniceanu Air Base. NATO suspended all ties with Moscow in April 2014, after the then-Ukrainian Crimea Peninsula voted in a referendum to join Russian territory. Shortly afterwards, an armed conflict broke out in eastern Ukraine, areas inhabited by an ethnically-Russian population. The Ukrainian government, which militarized the originally peaceful unrest in the region — known as the Donbass — has ever since been accusing Russia of having a hand in the conflict there. Moscow denies [...]
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