THE RUSSIAN OLD COMMUNIST FIRST STRIKE ATTITUDE COMES BACK WITH NUCLEAR CAPABILITY FROM THE RED PUTIN AS NATO REDRAWS THE NEW REDLINE ACROSS ITS NEW NATO EASTERN EUROPE ALLIES FROM POLAND TO LITHUANIA TO ESTONIA, TO NORWAY, TO UKRAINE–AS NATO SENDS MILITARY HARDWARE INTO POLAND TO SECURE ITS SOVERIEGNITY FROM THE PUTIN–THE FRENCH SENDS IN ADDITIONAL TANKS ALONG WITH THE USA TO COMMAND A 21,000 STRONG HEAVY ARMOR FORCE

NATO countries are staging massive air, land and sea exercises across Russia's northern borders this month in response to warnings from the Kremlin and strategic analysts that President Vladimir Putin's threats to use nuclear weapons are more than bluster.

The exercises in Estonia, Lithuania and Norway involve more than 21,000 troops and state-of-the-art military hardware. Coupled with U.S. training of Ukrainian forces and the recent activation of a 3,000-strong rapid-reaction force to defend Eastern Europe, they appear intended to send a message to Moscow that the alliance is ready to defend its new members in Russia's backyard.

Troops, trainers and readiness testers of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization have been bolstering defenses along what Eastern Europeans call the new Iron Curtain. Although it still divides East from West, this time there are former Soviet subjects on the western side of the ideological border……

…..In February, the Kremlin's television propagandist in chief, Dmitry Kiselev, called the Soviet Union's Cold War-era pledge to never be the first to use nuclear weapons a side effect of "political romanticism." Russia's current military doctrine imposes no such restraints, he told an audience of his weekly current affairs program, saying that Russia has "no more illusions." A year ago, as Western leaders were contemplating sanctions on Russia for its Crimea seizure, Kiselev observed that Russia is the only power "capable of turning the United States into radioactive ash."

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