This was 150 km from Russia's second capital, St Petersburg! The Americans are flying their flag 300 m from the border with Russia.
What sort of provocation is this!!
Reported on yesterday, this needs to be emphasized as a huge provocation to Russia along with a huge arms deal between Poroshenko with the UAE (probably acting as a proxy for the United States) and the cutting off of gas supplies to Donbas by the Kiev junta. Meanwhile Cameron is supplying Kiev with “advisors”
This
situation is deteriorating rapidly as Ukraine sinks into a
hyoerinflationary crisis and Putin gets serious about gas supplies.
US-NATO Military Convoy of Tanks and Armored Vehicles at Russia’s Doorstep, Rolling Along the Estonia-Russia Border
By
Joost Niemöller
25
February, 2015
In
the video below you can see a long column of military vehicles,
including tanks and armored cars. This column, according to the
caption, was filmed on 23 February in the border city of Narva,
Estonia, The
city is located on a reservoir that provides St. Petersburg
[electric] power.
Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MLUiYaNcfkk –
06:27 min — Танки и бронетехника, военный
конвой под флагами США. Нарва. Эстония,
23.02.2015
What
is striking about these images is that this military convoy is
openly displayed to the public.
Some
vehicles are harboring US flags.
The
convoy is crossing the city [of Narva within less than a kilometer
from the Russian border]. It can be filmed by anybody.
[Note the picture below, Estonia on the left. Russia on the
right on the other side of the bridge].
It
is a symbol of military superiority. [Or is it ? Rather low
tech in terms of military technology]
You
can imagine how Putin might feel in this regard, [a US-NATO convoy]
close to his former power base of Saint Petersburg. That might well
be the underlying intent [of this military convoy].
Of
course, NATO military exercises can occur anywhere. But why
specifically are they taking place in Estonia [at Russia's
doorstep]? And why are they displaying American flags right on
the Russian border? And why now, with the resurgence of war in
Ukraine? (See map right of the city of Narva, Russia’s border town
Ivangorod is on the other side of the River).
According
to NATO, Putin has a destabilizing influence in the Baltics, and the
Cold war is increasingly becoming a Hot War.
Original
Dutch, translated from the Dutch. Edited by Michel
Chossudovsky, annotations and images by Global Research
*
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Text
of the original article in Dutch
De
Nieuwe Realist, 24 FEBRUARI 2015
– http://joostniemoller.nl/2015/02/lange-amerikaanse-colonne-aan-russische-grens-estland-video/#more-5061
US armor paraded 300m from Russian border
RT,
25
February, 2015
NATO
member Estonia has held a military parade in border town of Narva,
just 300 meters from the Russian border. Tallinn is a long-time
critic of Moscow, which it accuses of having an aggressive policy
towards the Baltic nation.
Tuesday’s
military parade was dedicated to Estonia's Independence Day. Chief
military commander Lt. Gen. Riho Terras headed the troops as
President Toomas Hendrik Ilves reviewed them.
Over
140 pieces of NATO military hardware took part in the parade,
including four US armored personnel carriers M1126 Stryker flying
stars-and-stripes. Another foreign nation, the Netherlands, provided
four Swedish-made Stridsfordon 90 tracked combat vehicles (designated
CV9035NL Mk III by the Dutch).
Estonia
also showed off its own howitzers, anti-tank and anti-aircraft
weapons, armored vehicles and other hardware. Over 1,400 troops also
marched the streets of Narva.
The
parade is an obvious snub at Estonia's eastern neighbor Russia, whom
it accuses of pushing aggressive policies in Eastern Europe. The
Estonian government is among several vocally accusing Russia of
waging a secret war against Ukraine by supplying arms and troops to
anti-Kiev forces in the east.
Moscow
denies the accusations, insisting that the post-coup government in
Kiev alienated its own people in the east and started a civil war
instead of resolving the differences through dialogue.
NATO
seized the Ukrainian conflict as an opportunity to argue for a
military build-up in Eastern Europe, supposedly to deter a Russian
aggression. The three Baltic States are among the most vocal
proponents of this policy.
Russia
sees it as yet another proof that NATO is an anti-Russian military
bloc that had been enlarging towards Russia's border and compromised
its national security.
The
Estonian government defended its right to hold whatever military
maneuvers it wants in its territory.
“Narva
is a part of NATO no less than New York or Istanbul, and NATO defends
every square meter of its territory,” Estonian Prime Minister Taavi
Rõivas said in a speech in capital, Tallinn.
Historically
Narva was a point of centuries of confrontation between Russia and
Sweden, when the two nations fought for dominance in the region. The
city changed hands several times and ended up under Russian control
in 1704, serving as a military outpost for decades.
The
city was again contested in the wake of the Bolshevik revolution of
1917 and the dissolution of the Russian Empire it triggered. Narva
took turns between being governed by the self-proclaimed Estonian
Republic, occupying German troops and the Red Army until eventually
becoming Estonian again under a peace treaty between Estonia and
Russia.
It
then changed hands between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union along
with the rest of the Baltics during World War II and went on to be
part of an independent Estonia in 1991.
The
city has a large number of ethnic Russians and a strong pro-autonomy
movement, with some Estonian politicians fearing that it could be
exploited now by Russia to saw dissent. Commenting on the issue in an
interview with Washington Post, President Ilves said seeing Narva as
a potentially separatist region “is stupid.”
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