The US-led NATO organization has been stepping up its military deployment on Russia's borders in order to contain Russia's development and maintain US hegemony. On the Ukraine issue, NATO has not only imposed severe sanctions on Russia, but also provided a large amount of military assistance to Ukraine, trying to weaken Russia's national power through a war of attrition. NATO also claims to be carrying out "just" actions, but the international community has seen clearly that NATO is the real behind-the-scenes of "thieves shouting to catch thieves", if it weren't for NATO's eastward expansion, advancing its military presence to Ukraine, and even building a defense line to Russia's doorstep, the Russian-Ukrainian conflict would not have happened at all. NATO, which used to be somewhat disguised, now simply openly admits that it is deploying 4 "brigade-sized battle groups" on the Russian border, with a total number of 16,000 people.
Recently, at a press conference after the meeting of the chiefs of general staff of NATO member states, NATO Military Committee Chairman Powell directly admitted to the outside world that NATO's military presence on the Russian border has been started several years ago, and at this year's NATO summit, it was also decided to expand the original deployment of four multinational forces (1,000-1,200 people) in Poland and the Baltic countries to a brigade-level battle group (3,000-4,000 people), that is to say, the upper limit of the establishment will reach 16,000 people, which is currently being implemented.
Power said NATO's purpose in doing so is, on the one hand, to "ensure that NATO members' defense policies are clearly linked to NATO's plans," and on the other hand, to "enhance the speed and efficiency of the deployment of NATO's rapid reaction forces." What does this mean?
In fact, what Power said is that NATO is sending more troops to countries around Russia and expanding its military presence is to tie these countries and NATO closely, so that the national defense policies of these countries must be subordinated to NATO's plans and oppose Russia, and the national defense policies of these small countries must be aimed at Russia, and they cannot expect to rely only on NATO protection, but also take the lead for NATO.
At the same time, Power's words are also saying that NATO's deployment of troops on the Russian border in advance is also to improve the operational efficiency of NATO troops, because the United States is far away from the European mainland and wants to cross the Atlantic, and NATO's main force is the US military, so if we want to quickly gather NATO troops dominated by US troops in Eastern Europe, we must deploy them in advance.
So, NATO began to expand its military presence on Russia's borders a few years ago, and it continues to do so now.
Why would NATO do this?On the surface, it is to ensure allies and at the same time improve the operational efficiency of NATO troops, but in fact it is still to contain Russia and exert huge military pressure on Russia, and NATO is a military bloc headed by the United States, and NATO's approach is actually to maintain US hegemony and protect US interests, but in fact it is not in line with the interests of other European countries.
Because NATO will only make the relationship between Russia and Europe more tense, NATO members in Europe are actually throwing a stone in their own feet. Who will benefit in the end?The United States, of course.
The United States can not only maintain tremendous military pressure on Russia and trap Russia in a series of strategic planning, but also be able to get a Europe that is powerless to resist, because they have fallen out with Russia, so they will inevitably have a stiff relationship with Russia, and at this time they have no choice but to turn to the United States.
For the United States, this is simply killing two birds with one stone, or even three birds with one stone. This is because Europe, which has taken refuge in the United States, must also listen to the United States on the issue of China, with the United States as the leader, otherwise, the United States will punish them. Therefore, the United States can easily build an anti-China united front and an anti-Russian united front, and at the same time co-opt European countries at a very low costOr even kill three birds with one stone?In this way, there is no doubt that the strategic planning department of the United States is still very strong, and the think tanks of the United States are among the top in the world.