Monday, March 16, 2020from …. http://space4peace.blogspot.com/2020/03/us-army-invades-virus-plagued-europe.html
UPDATE.. DEFENDER War Games now PARTLY CALLED OFF !!
17 March..US halts deployment & recalls troops from NATO’s biggest drill ‘Defender Europe 2020’ due to coronavirus threat
Rick Rozoff, peace activist at StopNato International, thinks it’s incredibly ironic that a virus seems to have derailed, however temporarily, NATO’s strategic priority to expand to the Russian border.“This is a tactical retreat, in the face of nature,” he told RT. “I’m going to have to assume that, if and when the coronavirus is brought under control, that we’ll see the resumption of such military provocations, large-scale military exercises on Russia’s western border.”
Totally Cancel War Games and Weapons Shows Now..by .World BEYOND War
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1. The U.S. Military has scaled back the massive war rehearsals in Europe but not yet canceled them. Add your name now to the demand that such madness cease immediately and entirely, so that resources can be redirected to something more useful.
2. Despite the growing coronavirus pandemic, the CANSEC 2020 weapons show is still scheduled to take place in Ottawa May 27 and 28. CANSEC is billed as “North America’s largest trilateral defence event” and is expected to attract 12,000 government and military officials and weapons industry representatives from 55 countries to Ottawa. Click here to send a letter to top officials telling them: Weapons dealers should not risk the health of the people of Ottawa in order to market, buy, and sell weapons of war, endangering the lives of people around the world with violence and conflict. via. World BEYOND War
In the midst of a staggering virus epidemic that has shut much of Europe down, the insane and arrogant United States began sending 30,000 Army troops throughout Europe for war games.
As the soldiers emerged from their transport planes they shook the hands of US and European military officials welcoming them to the hot bed of corona-virus.
Exercise DEFENDER-Europe 20, now cut back but not cancelled, is the deployment of a division-size combat-credible force from the United States to Europe, the drawing of equipment and the movement of personnel and equipment across the theater to various training areas.
U.S.-based equipment was due to leave from ports in four states and arrive in six European countries. This would require the support of tens of thousands of service members and civilians in multiple nations.
U.S. service members were planned to spread out across the region to establish intermediate staging bases with multinational forces and participate in various annual exercises.
DEFENDER-Europe 20, now cut back due to the withdrawal of the German contingent, was to be the largest deployment of U.S.-based forces to Europe for an exercise in the more than 25 years.………………………….continues further down..…………
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