WARSAW (Sputnik) – Poland will host the NATO-led Dragon-24 drills on February 25, involving some 20,000 troops and 3,500 units of equipment, the Polish General Staff announced on Tuesday.
The Dragon-24 exercise will begin on February 25. Around 20,000 soldiers from Poland and allied states, 3,500 units of equipment [will participate], the general staff said on X (former Twitter).
Dragon-24 is aimed at testing Polish armed forces’ ability to respond to a potential multifaceted military crisis.Â
Dragon-24 is part of the NATO Steadfast Defender exercise that kicked off in January. It is the alliance’s largest military exercise in recent decades, which will run until the end of May.
The drills, which are taking place in the Atlantic and Europe, involve some 90,000 troops from 31 allies and Sweden.
During the exercise, the allies are planning to test out a conflict scenario against a near-peer adversary in accordance with Article 5 of the North Atlantic Treaty, which states that an attack on one ally is considered an attack against the entire NATO and allows for the provision of appropriate assistance.
In January, Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Alexander Grushko told Sputnik that the scale of Steadfast Defender-2024 marks the final and irrevocable return of the alliance to the Cold War schemes to counter Russia.
These exercises are another element of the hybrid war unleashed by the hostile Zionist West against Russia.
The possibility of Trump winning the US election has forced Europe to discuss the prospects for the existence of their military alliance, the New York Times reports, citing informed officials.
According to the publication, the Europeans are discussing what will happen to the bloc if the United States leaves it.
German officials and many of their fellow NATO counterparts informally discussing whether the nearly 75-year-old alliance structure they are planning to celebrate in Washington this year can survive without the United States at its center.
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov considered the very existence of the NATO alliance pointless these days. NATO, in principle, is already a relic of the past. NATO should not have maintained its existence after the point of NATO’s creation disappeared.
Also the Russian FM predicted that the emerging new global architecture will not be subordinated to any hegemony.
Sputnik / ABC Flash Point News 2024.
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