[D66] NATO rearmament increases risk of war in Europe

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http://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2015/04/11/natb-a11.html

NATO rearmament increases risk of war in Europe
By Johannes Stern
11 April 2015

NATO’s rearmament in Eastern Europe is increasingly taking on the form
of open war preparations against Russia, raising the danger of a nuclear
war between the Western powers and Moscow.

On Friday, the Western military alliance completed the first test of its
new super-rapid reaction force, the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force
(VJTF). As part of the “Noble Jump” manoeuvres, the chain of command
from NATO Headquarters SHAPE in Belgium was tested via the NATO command
in Naples, the German-Netherlands Corps in Münster, and the units in
Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and the Czech Republic. There were
troop movements in the Netherlands and the Czech Republic.

The exercise is part of the systematic military rearmament of NATO in
Eastern Europe following the pro-Western coup in Ukraine and the
subsequent military offensive by Kiev in the east of the country.