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According to Global Network citing Reuters and other foreign media reports, on October 11 local time, NATO Secretary-General Stoltenberg announced that he would hold an annual routine nuclear deterrent exercise as planned next week.
Stortenberg said that if NATO cancels the exercises due to the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, it is the most wrong signal to Russia. Because of NATO's strong military strength and firmness shown in the planned military exercises, is the best way to prevent the situation from escalating.
NATO's nuclear deterrent exercise usually lasts about one week , and there will be fighter jets that can carry nuclear warheads , reconnaissance aircraft and aerial tanker, etc., but under normal circumstances, these fighters will not carry real warheads.
Recently, the situation in Ukraine is further heating up , the Nord Stream pipeline and Crimea Bridge were successively damaged, and Russia carried out two days of bombing of several key cities in Ukraine. Under such circumstances, NATO still insists on conducting a nuclear deterrent exercise, which undoubtedly dropped a bombshell on the situation in Eastern Europe, which will further stimulate Russia's increasingly sensitive security nerves.
It is reported that in recent days, NATO has doubled its presence in Baltic Sea and North Sea , with more than 30 ships. There are also Polish media saying that the US B2 stealth bomber , which can carry 16 nuclear warheads, arrived at Warsaw for the first time, and also distributed videos to prove the authenticity of the message. Although does not know whether these military forces came for this nuclear deterrent exercise, such a large-scale increase in troops will definitely not benefit the cooling of the situation in Eastern Europe.
especially Russian President Putin has warned NATO that it will use all means to defend Russia's territorial integrity. This warning of was interpreted by the outside world as a nearly explicit "nuclear hint" . NATO is now also insisting on nuclear deterrent exercises, and has also been rated by Western media as a "head-on-head" that ignores Russia's warnings. Some media even said that this means that the West is telling Russia that their warnings are "useless" to the West.
The root cause of the Ukrainian crisis is that NATO insists on expanding eastward despite Russia's warnings and wants to squeeze Russia's strategic space. Putin criticized the US-led NATO for its policy towards Russia as an "aggressive anti-Russia policy", saying that the purpose of this policy is to weaken, isolate, and ultimately destroy Russia, which "has crossed all boundaries."
Moreover, Russians have completely different persistences about territory than other countries. If Chinese people are accustomed to considering issues with "time" as the latitude, Russians are accustomed to considering issues with "space" as the latitude. This is determined by the characteristics of the Russian nation and one of the main reasons why the West and Russia have had many conflicts for a long time. It is precisely because of this that NATO is very clear about this that it is trying every means to limit Russia's activity space to a limited range.
Russia-Ukrainian conflict has been a struggle between NATO and Russia from the beginning. Now, although the two sides have not yet reached the stage of "exploding the map", NATO's "nuclear force deterrence exercise" is likely to become a new fuse that detonates the entire European situation.
