NATO’s surge of troops in Eastern Europe nearly forced Russia’s military wrestling to escalate, and the cold war was shrouded in suspicion.

　　Recently, NATO has increased the deployment of military forces in Eastern Europe. The picture shows October 13th, in siauliai, Lithuania, NATO E— 3A airborne early warning aircraft arrived at the air base. Xinhua news agency

　　The two-day meeting of NATO defense ministers ended in Brussels, Belgium on October 27th. The meeting decided to expand NATO’s military presence in Eastern Europe in order to deter Russia from "constantly invading". In response, Russia immediately responded by strengthening its military strength in the Baltic Sea. Some analysts pointed out that with the escalating military wrestling between NATO and Russia in the Baltic region, the suspicion of the Cold War once again shrouded.

　　With the complete integration of land, sea and air, NATO sent 9,000 more troops to five countries in Eastern Europe.

　　At the press conference after the meeting, NATO Secretary General Stoltenberg said that NATO will deploy four battalions of multinational forces in the Baltic countries and Poland early next year. The defense chiefs of several NATO member countries responded positively at this meeting and announced their plans to send troops to form this multinational force.

　　It is reported that the total strength of these four battalions is 4,000, and the configuration strength also includes armored forces and drones. These fighting forces will be combined with missile defense, air patrol and cyber attack defense, and when potential conflicts occur, more forces will be assembled to advance to the Baltic Sea and Poland.

　　The four battalions will also be supported by a NATO rapid reaction force. The strength of this rapid reaction force was only 13,000 last year, and now it has expanded to 40,000. It can reach any place in the world by land, sea and air within a week, and deploy a vanguard of 5,000 troops within 48 hours.

　　Stoltenberg also announced that Canada, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Turkey, Britain and the United States will also send troops to join a new NATO brigade in Romania to strengthen their military presence in the Black Sea. The brigade has at least 5000 people. Britain will also send Typhoon fighters for the first time to patrol the Black Sea and provide air support for Turkey.

　　The British "Daily Mail" analysis believes that this will be NATO’s largest military deployment in Eastern Europe since the end of the Cold War, showing NATO’s determination to fight with Russia.

　　Russian threat? Putin said it was ridiculous.

　　Stoltenberg said that Russia has assembled more than 330,000 troops on the borders of NATO member countries. "Just this month, Russia deployed a nuclear warhead-capable ‘ Iskander ’ The missile unilaterally tore up the agreement reached with the United States on handling weapons-grade plutonium. "

　　"The multinational force we formed this time is a real multinational force, which sends a very clear message: NATO is one, and attacking any member state is an attack on our collective." Stoltenberg claimed that the main purpose of NATO’s military presence in the Baltic and Black Seas is to strengthen the collective defense force, aiming at deterring Russia and preventing conflicts rather than provoking them.

　　Grushko, Russian representative to NATO, said that since 2014, the NATO defense ministers’ meeting has not sent any signal to improve the relations between Russia and NATO. Although it has always claimed to "keep an open dialogue", it has actually been comprehensively curbing Russia. It is expected that this momentum will continue for a long time.

　　Russian President Vladimir Putin said at the Valdai International Forum a few days ago that Russia is not prepared to invade any country, and the analysis materials of some experts in Europe and America are incredible, stupid and unrealistic. The United States and NATO have a total population of about 900 million, while Russia has less than 200 million. It is ridiculous to talk about the Russian threat theory. However, it is profitable to publicize the imaginary Russian military threat and deploy troops and weapons near Russia’s borders. It can cater to the interests of superpowers and bring more military budgets to our country.

　　The British Guardian website commented that after the end of the Cold War, the whole world thought that it would be easy to breathe from now on, and it would no longer live in the nuclear terror of the hegemony of great powers. But now, as NATO and Russia continue to engage in military wrestling in the Baltic Sea, people are beginning to worry about whether they will return to the terrible old days.

　　Give birth to new fears and cast a shadow over regional security and stability.

　　Zivadin Jovanovic, President of the Belgrade Equal World Forum, said in an interview with this reporter that many conflicts in the world are caused by fear, and the surge in troops in sensitive areas is a major cause of fear. NATO’s large-scale deployment of troops in Eastern Europe will stimulate Russia to generate new fears, which will inevitably trigger a new round of arms race and bring new unstable factors to the already fragile regional security.

　　Jovanovic believes that NATO is a product of the Cold War, which has already ended, and NATO should have entered the history museum long ago. In order to seek legitimacy for its continued existence, NATO has been involved in regional conflicts since the end of the Cold War, from Afghanistan and Iraq to Libya and Mali. However, wherever NATO went, it eventually left behind a mess that could not be cleaned up. People’s livelihood was depressed, the economy was paralyzed, society was in turmoil, terror prevailed, innocent civilians were massacred, and survivors were forced to embark on the road of escape. Europe is also a victim of NATO’s global military intervention led by the United States, and the refugee tide that has plagued Europe is a bitter fruit planted by NATO.

　　"Russia Today" news agency quoted danilov, director of the European Security Department of the European Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, as saying that there was no reasonable explanation for a series of actions of NATO in its relations with Russia. To limit Russia’s need for "leverage", the West can now be described as "indiscriminate leverage". It is impossible to prohibit Russian warships from crossing the Da Daniil Strait, and it is also impossible to prevent Russia from cooperating with the Syrian government, so there is a "pragmatic approach" for NATO to expand its military presence now.

　　Ermak Fu, an expert at the Russian Institute of Strategic Studies, believes that Russia is now suffering from the consequences of the wrong policies in the 1990s, and Russia did not fully prevent NATO’s eastward expansion when withdrawing its troops from the Baltic and Eastern European countries. However, the west does not intend to abide by the agreement signed with Russia, so now NATO has reached its doorstep. What Russia is worried about is not the military strength currently deployed by NATO, but this trend.

　　(People’s Daily, Brussels, Moscow, October 28th, reporter Ren Yan in Belgium, reporter Qu Song in Russia)