Moscow: US must pack its stuff and get out of Europe

[Mushroom]

NATO soldiers in Estonia are being trained to fight in winter conditions. Not a joke.
Foreign soldiers in Estonia should spend two nights in tents, and then plunge into the ice hole, writes Delfi. At this point, the course of preparation for winter conditions is done.
They forgot to warn soldiers, that winter in Russia does not last 2 days, and the frost is not the same as in Estonia. But it seems that NATO strategists have planned a war with Russia for two days... Hitler planned for three months. Progress!

That was a "Winter Survival Course", not the same thing as an "Arctic Warfare Course".

One is to train you to just survive in the conditions, the other to actually fight in them. They are very different things.

The former is more for REMFs, Pilots, and those that simply might have to get by in such conditions until they can get out of it, the other is to actually operate in and fight in such conditions. The latter is normally 1 month or longer, and includes a much more in-depth exposure to such conditions. I spent over a month in Panama doing the "Long Course" at the Jungle Warfare school. The same school also taught a 5 day SERE course, so aircrews could survive in such an environment.

And when we took part in NATO war games in Norway, first we spent a month in the Sierra Mountains of California. Going through some rather intense winter training, including how to make fighting positions when you can not even dig into the ground. The irony was that when my unit got to Norway, it was actually warmer than Bridgeport had been. And while not experts on skis, most could at least get around on them.

One thing about the US, conditions are rarely so extreme so there are few places that such training is really needed. But many units do go through such training. A typical Marine Infantry unit will go through many different such courses every year or so. Arctic, Jungle, Mountain, Desert, and more. The idea is simply to give them familiarization with operating in such conditions, not becoming experts in each and every one.

 

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[AZrailwhale]

Stop talking nonsense. There have never been official Russian troops in Ukraine, only volunteers and mercenaries fought there, and they were on both sides. These are not only Russian citizens, there were mercenaries from all over the world. Putin had a chance to join the Donbass according to the Crimean scenario, there was a referendum. He flatly rejected this option.

The Russian army of conventional troops cannot compete with the US army, this is a qualitatively different level.

If you want to understand where this incitement comes from, read my topic:

The goals of provocations of enmity between Russia and the US

It is very strange that this is most typical for times when the left loyal to Bolshevism comes to power in the United States, which should be delighted with totalitarianism. What is the secret? The fact that the United States is Europe's enemy No. 1. The United States is a right-wing free...

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“Volunteers” like the five hundred thousand Chinese “volunteers” who fought against the UN forces in the Korean War.

 

[Mushroom]

“Volunteers” like the five hundred thousand Chinese “volunteers” who fought against the UN forces in the Korean War.

This is an aspect of history that most seem ignorant of.

When China got involved in the Korean War, it was with the "People's Volunteer Army". In total almost 3 million members of the People's Liberation Army, under the claim that it was all volunteers in order to prevent an escalation with other nations. Of course, the "Volunteer Army" also had artillery, tanks, and jet fighters. Rather unusual equipment for a bunch of "volunteers" as China claimed.

Not unlike the equipment that the "volunteers" are using in the Ukraine.

 

[Ringo]

The wealth of Siberia on the balance sheets of western TNCs is worth many, many Ukrainians, Polands, Bulgarias and other limitrophs, as well as "Euro-Atlantic solidarity".
Therefore, I think the risks of losing these assets have activated a powerful "anti-war" faction in the metropolises

 

[rupol2000]

The wealth of Siberia on the balance sheets of western TNCs is worth many, many

Let them turn to the Chinese, they are the masters there now