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United States Ambassador to Germany Amy Gutmann, centre, German air force chief Lieutenant General Ingo Gerhartz, left, and U.S. Air National Guard Director Lieutenant General Michael A. Loh, right, arrive for a news conference on the Air Defender military exercise in Berlin, Germany, Wednesday, June 7, 2023.
NATO allies in Germany prepared for an unprecedented air deployment exercise over Europe today in what US diplomats said was a warning to Russia’s Vladimir Putin.
German and US officials said that the Air Defender 23 exercise starting next week will involve 10,000 participants and 250 aircraft from 25 nations responding to a simulated attack on a Nato member country.
The United States alone is sending 2,000 Air National Guard personnel and about 100 aircraft to take part in the June 12-23 training manoeuvres.
The Baltic state is set to reverse its constitutional prohibition on nuclear weapons and foreign bases as part of accelerated Nato war preparations, warns TOM UNTERRAINER
In Washington, the willingness to accept an open war with Russia is growing — at Europe’s expense. While Nato states are being drawn into confrontation, Europe risks becoming the battlefield of a potential world war, warns SEVIM DAGDELEN
MARK HAZELDEN criticises the Western narrative that the incident was an escalation of Russia’s confrontation with the West, given that Belarus, a Russian ally, warned Poland of off-course drones, and the drones were unarmed, cheap wooden decoys