{"id":29648,"date":"2018-01-12T09:18:37","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:18:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29648"},"modified":"2018-01-12T09:18:37","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T14:18:37","slug":"russia-secretly-simulated-a-full-scale-war-against-nato-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=29648","title":{"rendered":"Russia Secretly Simulated a Full-Scale War Against NATO: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"
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(<\/b>ANTIMEDIA<\/b><\/a>)<\/b>\u00a0\u2014<\/i>\u00a0In September, Russia\u00a0held extensive<\/a>\u00a0military exercises that included the use of both Russian and Belarusian military forces. The drills were scheduled to last for at least a week.<\/p>\n

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On December 19, German newspaper\u00a0BILD<\/i>\u00a0reported<\/a>\u00a0that two NATO member intelligence sources had claimed the September drills were a \u201cdry run\u201d for a \u201cfull-scale conventional war against NATO in Europe.\u201d<\/p>\n

BILD<\/i>\u00a0had no official confirmation of the claim until recently when it ran an interview with Estonian General Riho Terras, who confirmed the accusations that Russia had \u201csimulated a large-scale military attack against NATO.\u201d Terras is the commander of the Estonian Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

Aside from Belarus, the drills were also held in the Baltic Sea, western Russia, and Russia\u2019s outpost at Kaliningrad. The\u00a0Independent<\/i>\u00a0notes<\/a>\u00a0that according to Russia\u2019s Defense Ministry, the drills were intended to depict a fictional scenario concerned with attacks by militants.<\/p>\n

However, according to Terras, Russia lied about the nature of their military exercises.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet me be clear: with the exercise Zapad 2017, Russia simulated a large-scale military attack against Nato,\u201d\u00a0<\/i>Terras said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt was not targeted towards the Baltic states only, as it was a theater-wide series of exercises spanning from high North to the Black Sea.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

He also added that\u00a0\u201cThe scale and extent of the entire exercise was far greater than officially stated.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

According to\u00a0BILD<\/i>, the drills involved far more troops than the 12,700 Russia initially claimed.\u00a0BILD<\/i>\u2019s sources told the newspaper another 12,000 Russian soldiers had taken part in exercises near Estonia\u2019s borders and more than 10,000 had participated in the area near the north of Finland and Norway.<\/p>\n

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Russia Secretly Simulated a Full-Scale War Against NATO: Report (ANTIMEDIA)\u00a0\u2014\u00a0In September, Russia\u00a0held extensive\u00a0military exercises that included the use of both Russian and Belarusian military forces. The drills were scheduled to last for at least a week. We’re revolutionizing the news industry, but we need your help! Click here to get started. On December 19, German […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[8350,2023,2462,14444,359,553,694,862,17889],"class_list":["post-29648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-anti-media","tag-belarus","tag-bild","tag-darius-shahtahmasebi","tag-germany","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-war","tag-war-simulations"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=29648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29649,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29648\/revisions\/29649"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=29648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=29648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=29648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}