They don't wanna confuse themselves by being allover the place instead want one main headquarters which is East Europe that is where the beast nests hence they will not take bait on other theaters or be drawn out into them as they will have logistical disadvantage hence they will have to travel a long distance it is not ideal but if you run thru Russia via East Europe you will be kissing the Chinese borders by default and that gives them a shortcut
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NATO not ready for equal dialogue, Russian defense minister says as German counterpart warns bloc ready to deter Moscow with nukes
23 Oct, 2021 15:28
Security in Europe can only be collective, but NATO is not ready for equal dialogue, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said. NATO earlier agreed on a master plan to deter Moscow, including with nuclear weapons.
German Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer has been one of the most active backers of NATO's new master plan to counter Russia in case a military conflict breaks out between the sides. The strategy, which was agreed on Thursday, envisages the military alliance’s troops fighting Russian forces in the Baltic region and across the Black Sea, while also calling for non-conventional warfare, including nuclear weapons, cyber-attacks, and space military technology, to be employed.
“This is the way of deterrence,” Kramp-Karrenbauer told German radio Deutschlandfunk earlier this week, commenting on the idea of deploying nuclear weapons in the air above Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia to protect them from what NATO calls the
“Russian threat.”
“We must make it very clear to Russia that we are ready to use such measures as well, so that it would have an early deterrent effect... This is being adapted to the current behavior of Russia,” she insisted.
Security in Europe can only be collective, but NATO is not ready for equal dialogue, Russian Defense Minister Sergey Shoigu has said. NATO earlier agreed on a master plan to deter Moscow, including with nuclear weapons.
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