For the first time ever, NATO’s entire Canadian-led military brigade stationed in Latvia is deploying east this week, near the border of both Russia and Belarus.
  • robear@lemmy.zip
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    4 days ago

    Headline is pretty clickbaity

    Tanks, infantry, medics and engineers are pushing east from their base in Adazi, Latvia to take part in a multi-day exercise. …
    Russia has also been conducting similar military readiness exercises across the border.

    • skeptic@lemmy.caOP
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      4 days ago

      The complete sentence is : “Tanks, infantry, medics and engineers are pushing east from their base in Adazi, Latvia to take part in a multi-day exercise that will include building out defensive positions along NATO’s eastern front.” (italics added for emphasis)

      So, while I’d agree at first glance this could be clickbait “building out defensive positions along NATO’s eastern front” is definitely an important development IMO.

      • robear@lemmy.zip
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        4 days ago

        I assume any defensive structures built these days are temporary and are only for practice lasting the duration of the exercise.

        • skeptic@lemmy.caOP
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          4 days ago

          If you watch the video there’s a snippet of them digging trenches and laying barbed wire. I hardly think that would be temporary, but I’ve never been on a military exercise. Are you suggesting that they will do all that and then take up the barbed wire and fill the trenches back in after the exercise?