Russia's Military Shows Its Might to Europeans -- Andrew Foxall, Moscow Times
More than 20 years after the end of the Cold War, one might have thought that Russia no longer viewed the West as its primary military target. Alas, this is not the case. While Russia's recent military exercises in Eastern Europe have gone largely unnoticed, they reveal that Russia still sees the West as a threat.
Russia's Zapad-2013 military exercises, held jointly with Belarus, took place in September. In theory, the exercises were a counterterrorism operation targeting "illegal armed groups." In practice, they were oriented toward fighting a large-scale war against conventional armies in Europe. And the language that Russia used toward NATO in the buildup to the exercises was highly charged. NATO, it was said, is an enemy because of its pursuit of a ballistic missile defense system and its continuing expansion.
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My Comment: Russia is not going to invade Europe .... and Europe is not going to invade Russia .... but the military (on both sides) does what it does which is to prepare and train for something that they hope that they will never need to follow through.
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