JMM---story indicates a joint Army/Marine unit coming in for an exercise and training of Baltic troops.
Do not think it is just talk.
Interesting the way they are using the exercise excuse thus one level below a threat---knowing though how it will be interpreted.
This came in via the NYT: "A Ukrainian official also says the country will hold joint military exercises with the U.S. and Britain."
This is far deeper as the Russian military is matching if not expanding their reactions---they are flexing their muscles as a show of strength befitting a superpower---at least in their eyes and that makes this a far more complicated thing than just a "cold war" thing.
In some aspects they are showing us their complete rebuilding is finished and they can match us in ways we did not estimate they could as IMO intel wise we lost them in the last 12 years of chasing jihadi's.
There is more to Putin's physic makeup that they are paying attention to ---would really recommend reading the English or if one speaks Russian (that is better as it catches the reflections/intonations of the language) that gives a lot of insight to what triggered his actions.
That is what they are paying attention to-----IMO they initially misread him even if Bush claimed "he looked him in the eyes" ......
What worries me is the simple fact that the intel community both in the US and in Europe totally missed this thing as it was building---so much for Pearl Harbor and the creation of an intel team called Indications and Warnings.
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