In Estonia Wednesday, on May 2, began the largest NATO military exercise in the country’s history entitled "Hedgehog 2018" (Siil),commander of the Estonian defence forces Gen. Riho Terras said. The exercise is running until May 14 and is divided into three stages.
While the focus of the exercise is on the ground forces, the Navy and the Air Force will also be playing an important role. In addition to personnel from 19 allied and partner nations, representatives from five structural units of NATO take part in "Hedgehog 2018".
The exercise are involved more than 15,000 military personnel and members of the security services.
The main objective of Hedgehog is to practice Estonia's territorial defence both in terms of conventional warfare and other less common environments.
This year's Hedgehog will cross the southern border and partly takes place on the territory of northern Latvia. This is the first time the exercise is extended to locations beyond Estonia's immediate territorial boundaries.
According to the scenario the enemy is performed by fictitious state Murinius, located in the territory of Russia and Belarus,which will try to destabilize the situation and cause a rift between member states of NATO.
The president of Murinius has accused Estonia and Latvia of interfering in the internal affairs of his country and announced the beginning of hostilities against them.
The scenario was prepared by the NATO Joint Warfare Center.
As a matter of fact, recently in Latvia lawmakers passed two bills in the final reading providing gradual transition to education almost only in Latvian for ethnic minority schools.
The reform, initiated by Latvian Education and Science Minister Karlis Sadurskis of the ruling center-right Unity party, has been hotly debated in parliament and triggered a string of mass protests led by advocates of Latvia's Russian schools, particularly the Russian Union of Latvia.
Perhaps in this case NATO military exercise "Hedgehog 2018" (Siil) is directed against the Russian-speaking population of the Baltic States. This year's Hedgehog will cross the southern border and partly take place on the territory of northern Latvia, where Russian minority mostly live.
But NATO's scriptwriters don't even imagine, that residents of Estonia, Latvia and even Lithuania are going to be citizens of fictitious state of the Republic Murinius.
The Republic of Murinius has become a prototype of an utopian country without any social and demographic problems. Due to weak economic situation in the Baltic States locals have to earn money in the U.S. and Britain as toilet cleaners.
There is one more reason to be a part of Murinius.
Recently, as The Sunday Times reported, on April 24 three British army officers drunkenly clashed with the Latvian police on a night out in Riga despite warnings about the threat of Russian stings planned to make UK troops look like thugs. The soldiers, one from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery and the other two from 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, were returned to their units by the Latvian military police and the Canadian military police.
As usual NATO's militants don't obey the host country's law, national traditions and take part in drunken street brawls.
And now the necessary symbols of independent state have appear.
The passport
The flag
And the national currency
https://toptopic.com/posts/nato-s-hedgehog-learns-to-get-rid-of-russians-72175
While the focus of the exercise is on the ground forces, the Navy and the Air Force will also be playing an important role. In addition to personnel from 19 allied and partner nations, representatives from five structural units of NATO take part in "Hedgehog 2018".
The exercise are involved more than 15,000 military personnel and members of the security services.
The main objective of Hedgehog is to practice Estonia's territorial defence both in terms of conventional warfare and other less common environments.
This year's Hedgehog will cross the southern border and partly takes place on the territory of northern Latvia. This is the first time the exercise is extended to locations beyond Estonia's immediate territorial boundaries.
According to the scenario the enemy is performed by fictitious state Murinius, located in the territory of Russia and Belarus,which will try to destabilize the situation and cause a rift between member states of NATO.
The president of Murinius has accused Estonia and Latvia of interfering in the internal affairs of his country and announced the beginning of hostilities against them.
The scenario was prepared by the NATO Joint Warfare Center.
As a matter of fact, recently in Latvia lawmakers passed two bills in the final reading providing gradual transition to education almost only in Latvian for ethnic minority schools.
The reform, initiated by Latvian Education and Science Minister Karlis Sadurskis of the ruling center-right Unity party, has been hotly debated in parliament and triggered a string of mass protests led by advocates of Latvia's Russian schools, particularly the Russian Union of Latvia.
Perhaps in this case NATO military exercise "Hedgehog 2018" (Siil) is directed against the Russian-speaking population of the Baltic States. This year's Hedgehog will cross the southern border and partly take place on the territory of northern Latvia, where Russian minority mostly live.
But NATO's scriptwriters don't even imagine, that residents of Estonia, Latvia and even Lithuania are going to be citizens of fictitious state of the Republic Murinius.
The Republic of Murinius has become a prototype of an utopian country without any social and demographic problems. Due to weak economic situation in the Baltic States locals have to earn money in the U.S. and Britain as toilet cleaners.
There is one more reason to be a part of Murinius.
Recently, as The Sunday Times reported, on April 24 three British army officers drunkenly clashed with the Latvian police on a night out in Riga despite warnings about the threat of Russian stings planned to make UK troops look like thugs. The soldiers, one from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery and the other two from 4th Regiment Royal Artillery, were returned to their units by the Latvian military police and the Canadian military police.
As usual NATO's militants don't obey the host country's law, national traditions and take part in drunken street brawls.
And now the necessary symbols of independent state have appear.
The passport
The flag
And the national currency
https://toptopic.com/posts/nato-s-hedgehog-learns-to-get-rid-of-russians-72175