Showing posts with label military alert. Show all posts
Showing posts with label military alert. Show all posts

Thursday, March 26, 2015

We live in a state of military alert



Rostislav Ishchenko
Translated from the Russian by Robin
For the second year in a row, almost uninterrupted military exercises are taking place in Russia. The number of troops involved is comparable to or even greater than the number of participants in the largest exercise held by the Soviet Union and the Warsaw Pact military alliance – even though the Soviet armed forces totaled 3.5 million in 1991 and today the Russian Federation’s armed forces barely number 1.5 million.

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