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Russia to hold biggest war games since Cold War

Stevicus

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Russia to hold its biggest war games since the Cold War

MOSCOW -- Russia will next month hold its biggest war games since at least the 1980s, with around 300,000 troops and 1,000 aircraft, the defence minister said Tuesday. The Vostok-2018 exercises will be carried out from September 11 to 15 in the country's east with the participation of China and Mongolia.

China and Mongolia, too.

NATO claimed that joint Russian-Byelorussian exercises held last year could have been seen as preparations for war:

Moscow said last year's Zapad-2017 military drills, conducted in ally Belarus and regions of Russia, saw the participation of roughly 12,700 troops. But NATO claimed Russia could have been massively underreporting the scale of those exercises, which some of the alliance's eastern members said involved more than 100,000 servicemen.

The head of NATO's military committee said those war games could have been seen as "a serious preparation for a big war," despite Russian assurances they posed no threat.

Just days after Russia ended the Zapad-2017 exercises, thousands of Polish and other NATO troops launched major defensive exercises in Poland's north.
 

Stevicus

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Don't worry, though. Trump says he trusts the Russian leader.

Well, it's hard to say what they might have in mind. A lot of people talk about Putin and Trump, but with Trump being a bit of a loose cannon, Putin may not entirely trust him. A Chinese-Russian alliance would be rather formidable.
 

Onyx

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I wonder if it's just a big showoff since other countries are building up their own militaries.
 

Shad

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I wonder if it's just a big showoff since other countries are building up their own militaries.

Could be. Russia has made several advancements in recent years with new aircraft and tanks. For example the newest MBT (Main Battle Tank), the T-14, is hands the best in the world. Showing it off would slam home the fact that most NATO nations use tanks developed 70/80s with platform upgrades.
 

Shadow Wolf

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Well, it's hard to say what they might have in mind. A lot of people talk about Putin and Trump, but with Trump being a bit of a loose cannon, Putin may not entirely trust him. A Chinese-Russian alliance would be rather formidable.
Of course Putin doesn't trust Trump. Why would he? An ex-KGB spy trusting a man that has to be manipulated to just consider his daily briefings?
 

Audie

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Well, it's hard to say what they might have in mind. A lot of people talk about Putin and Trump, but with Trump being a bit of a loose cannon, Putin may not entirely trust him. A Chinese-Russian alliance would be rather formidable.

And of course, the more China is familiar with Russian
tactics and terrain, the more than can take Russian
territory when the time comes.
 
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