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The North Atlantic Treaty Organization will hold military exercises dubbed Steadfast Defender 21 which will involve up to 9,000 servicemen, will be held on
NATO’s southern wing, in particular
Romania, Hungary,
Bulgaria and Portugal, between May 20 and June 22 and will train redeployment of reinforcements from the US, Vice Chief of Staff at
NATO Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), Lieutenant General Brice Houdet told a briefing in Brussels on Thursday. The first phase of Steadfast Defender 2021 focuses on the rapid reinforcement of
NATO’s European Allies by North American forces. This phase is led by Joint Force Command Norfolk and will include a maritime live exercise with around 5,000 forces and 18 ships, including the UK’s Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth. Meanwhile, a table-top part of the exercise will take part in Ulm, Germany. This will train and test the ability of
LAST FERRY TO ORCADIA: From The Province Of The Cat by George Gunn.
On the Wednesday night before the election a violent storm hit Caithness. Around eight o clock the sky turned black and great sheets of snow, sleet and hail lashed in from the Atlantic on a cruel North West wind. Ghostly, almost thunderless, white lightening flashed like a signal out of the firmament. Surely, I thought, this is a portent, like the Valkyrie seen over Murkle before the Battle of Clontarf in 1014, for one of the most important and strangest elections in Scotland’s history.
Because what sort of election is it when the main issue on the minds of the majority of the Scottish people, no matter that the media insist it isn’t, is independence for their country. But not so, it would appear, for the SNP, the only party that can deliver it? The SNP constantly deny this, but they have not campaigned for it. What an extraordinary set of affairs. Do they really think they can achieve independence by ignoring
Britain ratchets up NATO’s war drive against Russia
Britain is to deploy warships to the Black Sea this month. Central to NATO’s provocations against Russia, the deployment is part of unprecedented military operations and war games exercises being conducted in the Mediterranean, Black Sea, Middle East, Indian Ocean and South China Sea.
The HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier with seven helicopters visible onboard at Portsmouth harbour. May 1, 2021 (credit: WSWS media)
In April, Russia began to amass substantial military forces near the Ukrainian border, after the Ukraine regime armed to the hilt by Washington endorsed a strategy to “recover” Crimea. Following the far-right 2014 coup in Kiev, which was supported by the US and the European Union (EU), Russia annexed the strategically vital peninsula.
Huge warships seen off North Wales coast drop anchor ahead of largest military exercise in Europe
The ships are understood to be taking part in a NATO exercise this month
05:00, 7 MAY 2021 (Image: Andrew Teebay/Liverpool Echo)
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Two huge warships which were spotted off North Wales this week have docked in Liverpool.