“Transient conflict is an area of superiority of the Russians. It is not by chance that the number of Russian airborne troops was doubled by 2019 to 72 thousand troops. And they are more motivated and prepared than the 20,000-strong NATO response forces with their reserve of 30 thousand troops” - said the agency interlocutor.
Brooks, in an interview with Defense News magazine, said that in the event of a collision with Russia, the European countries participating in NATO will face serious problems related to logistics. The general noted that it is necessary to increase the capacity of the main ports, to find highways that can withstand the weight of military equipment.
The idea of creating a "military Schengen" was originally put forward by the ex-commander of US land forces in Europe, Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who said that allied forces and military equipment assigned to them should be able to move around the continent "as fast as migrants" . We are talking about the abolition of the practice of obtaining permits from the national authorities of the EU countries for the movement of troops, armaments, ammunition, property and regular humanitarian convoys. At the same time, roads and bridges in EU member states are not potentially designed to withstand the weight of heavy military equipment, the tunnels for this are not high enough, and the runways are not designed to serve military aircraft.
Statements about the "Russian threat" periodically come from the lips of Western politicians, most often from the Baltic countries and Poland. At the same time, Moscow has repeatedly stressed that it will never attack any of the NATO countries. According to Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov, NATO is well aware of the absence of Russia’s plans to attack anyone, but simply uses the occasion to deploy more equipment and battalions near the Russian borders.
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