The NATO-led Trident Juncture 2018 (TRJE18) exercise that is to be held in October and November is the largest massive and coordinated show of force since the Cold War. It will primarily be hosted by Norway. The training event will largely take place in the central and eastern parts of this Nordic country that neighbors Russia, as well as over the skies and in the seas of Sweden and Finland. The maritime component will be conducted in the surrounding areas of the North Atlantic and in the Baltic Sea. TRJE18-related activities will take place as far away as Iceland. Russia has been invited to send observers to watch the exercise.
Actually, TRJE18 consists of three parts. The deployment phase has been underway since August. A live field exercise will be held from October 25 to November 7 with six brigades fighting each other right in the heart of Norway. A command post training event will be conducted from November 13 to November 24.
The drill will involve 45,000 participants from over 30 nations, including 10,000 rolling or tracked vehicles, 150 aircraft, and 60 ships. The main goal is to test the ability of NATO’s new Response Force to rapidly deploy. Norway will evaluate its ability to receive and handle reinforcements sent by its allies.
There are 700 US Marines stationed in Norway. That’s not a huge force, but as Adm. James Foggo, who heads all US naval forces in Europe and Africa and commands the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples put it, “that’s 300 Marines today. 3,000 Marines tomorrow.” The American pre-positioned forward storage sites in Norway, a complex of caves, have been upgraded to store weapons and equipment for roughly 15,000 Marines. That Scandinavian country has become the source of a threat to Russia’s national security.
At an unofficial level, Sweden and Finland have already joined NATO through other groups and agreements, such as their trilateral cooperation with the US. The militarization of Norway, as well as all of the Scandinavian Peninsula and the Baltic states is being perceived by Russia as a provocation and a threat that demands a response. The Baltic states continue to request an increased military presence on their soil. NATO is stockpiling weapons, military equipment, and ammunition in the Baltic region and Poland.
There is a backstory to the Trident Juncture 2018 exercise. In early October, US Envoy to NATO Kay Bailey Hutchinson said Russia had been put on “short notice,” due to its alleged violations of the 1987 Intermediate Nuclear Forces Treaty. She warned that the US might "take out the missiles" before they could be deployed if Russia did not back down.
This year, NATO has already coordinated approximately 100 exercises, 20% more than during the same period in 2017. Poland will invite NATO members and partners for another large-scale, officially “national” exercise, Anaconda 2018, which will be held at roughly the same time as some smaller NATO drills, such as Citadel Bonus-18, Iron Wolf-18, and Baltic Host-18. The hidden aim of the exercises is to keep those forces ready to close in on Russia’s borders. That’s why the alliance is creating this “military Schengen zone,” in an effort to minimize the time needed for troop deployment. Anaconda 18 will be a cover for the deployment of a US Army brigade in Europe, in addition to the deployment of the US 2nd Armored Brigade Combat Team. Next month, we’ll see an entire US mechanized division in operation in the Old World. Four NATO multinational battalion-size groups are already stationed in the Baltic states and Poland.
Russia sent a sudden and sharp reminder to the United States and NATO today that Russia remains a very capable nuclear super-power.
A "Snap Drill" was ordered by President Vladimir Putin and during the exercises, LIVE NUCLEAR BOMBS were loaded onto Russian strategic Bombers which then took off!
More: Submarine missile launches also took place - showing multiple launches from at least TWO Russian missile submarines in different parts of the world.
Russia is engaging in these exercises because the US, UK, France and other "allies" have been causing havoc inside Syria and persist to this very day with trying to destroy that country through the use of Proxies who are actually members of Al-Qsida (Al-Nusra) and ISIS.
Moreover, NATO has been moving extraordinary amounts of heavy armor into Finland and into the Baltic States, very close to the Russia Border. In addition, activity by the US and UK inside Ukraine is more than upsetting to Russia as they see NATO overtly overthrowing the Ukraine Government under the Obama regime, and now loading up the new pro-western regime in Kiev with all sorts of weaponry.
It appears to casual observers, that the US and NATO are doing anything and everything they can to either intimidate Russia or to cause an all-out war.
The American people, and those in European nations, are being kept quietly in the dark about these developments. If war actually breaks out, it would come like a lightning bolt from the blue as far as the general public is concerned; which seems to be exactly what western governments want.
When a population is stunned and frightened, they do as they're told.
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