“Exercises like these send a clear message that NATO stands ready to defend every inch of Allied territory.”
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has announced they will be conducting their largest joint military exercise since the days of The Cold War, right on Russia’s doorstep.
The Financial Times broke the news on Monday, signaling that the Steadfast Defender NATO war drills, slated for early 2024, around February and March, are primed to be the ‘biggest live joint command exercise since the cold war next year, assembling more than 40,000 troops to practice how the alliance would attempt to repel Russian aggression against one of its members,’ The FT wrote.
The exercise will take in and around the Baltic Sea, near the Russian homeland. The drills reportedly are designed to demonstrate “to Moscow that the alliance is prepared to fight,” The FT reports citing NATO officials…
