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Downeastnc said:
This is just wrong, the sanctions Biden and other western nations put in place yesterday are new sanctions on the Russian banks Putin and the main oligarchs use to launder their wealth....its very personal and deliberately done to hurt those closest to Putin the most by targeting those top oligarchs.

If Putin takes the NATO countries moving troops around and sending the Ukraine tons of military equipment as a green light he needs to reevaluate his thought processes. Countries are literally sending military hardware into Ukraine as we speak....and the Ukraine has 120k troops on the eastern front with Donbass....this will not be a cake walk for Russia if they go full bore, they have the numbers but the Ukrainian army has had weeks to prepare positions and setup defense layers that will cost the Russians heavily especially in armor, just in the last month or so the Ukrainians have been given a few thousand Javelin missiles these will kill a lot of Russia armor.

In fact Putin has painted himself into a rather nasty corner honestly, if he backs down now he looks hella weak to the oligarchs and at home, if he keeps pushing he ends up in a major shooting war with a country he cant take and hold, with sanctions crushing the Russian economy, hundreds or even thousands of dead bodies going home in a war that literally no one in Russia wants. All the while just increasing the need to put those countries in NATO to prevent crap like this from happening again.
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No its right. May have added one or 2 more people. Check last sentence.
International sanctions have been imposed during the Russo-Ukrainian War by a large number of countries against Russia and Crimea following the Russian invasion of Ukraine, which began in late February 2014. The sanctions were imposed by the United States, the European Union (EU) and other countries and international organisations against individuals, businesses and officials from Russia and Ukraine.[1] Russia responded with sanctions against a number of countries, including a total ban on food imports from Australia, Canada, Norway, Japan, the United States and the European Union.


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Countries that have introduced sanctions on Russia:
Countries that have introduced sanctions
European Union-countries that have collectively introduced sanctions
The sanctions by the European Union and United States continue to be in effect as of February 2022. [2][3] In January 2022, the EU announced the latest extension of sanctions until 31 July 2022.[4]
 
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Barrow built ship deployed to Norway in one of the 'largest military exercises'

THE UK’s amphibious flagship – built in Barrow- left Plymouth bound for the fjords to play a key role in the largest military exercise in Norway…
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My understanding is ~5000 Marines from Lejeune, forward elements of 2nd MEB are in or will be leaving for Norway in the coming weeks.

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Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway - Wikipedia

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“It (2nd MEB) advertises itself as a "middleweight" crises response force of choice in the European and Southern Command Areas of Operation.”

~15K Marines if fully deployed, similar in size to the 82nd Airborne.
 
If and when Russia does a full scale invasion of Ukraine, NATO will pull the trigger, book it.

75% of the 40K will come from non US members. We already have ~90K US service men and women in Europe.

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NATO Response Force

The NATO Response Force (NRF) is a highly ready and technologically advanced multinational force made up of land, air, maritime and Special Operations Forces (SOF) components that the Alliance can deploy quickly, wherever needed. In addition to its operational role, the NRF can be used for...
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47min watch for those who enjoy history and culture…

Lithuania joined NATO in 2004, first class of conscripts 2017. Boot camp.



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