Notice the game being played. The troops aren't supposed to
be there on a permanent basis so they get around it by rotating the troops every
six months.
The US does this all the time. They'll list a base as having
say... 500 personnel but then they might have 2000 more there on a more-or-less
permanent basis but can avoid the designation by having them on a rotation.
It's an accounting trick.
Of course a war game with a simulated nuclear attack involves
drilling for a counter-attack. Moscow knows this all too well. It's kind of
like missile 'defense'. Part of the defense is striking and taking out the
other side's weapons. George Bush already demonstrated what pre-emptive 'defense' looks like in
2003.
Also the fact that they're paying lip-service to a 1997
NATO-Russia agreement makes a mockery of the original US promises made under
Reagan and Bush I. They had assured Russia that NATO would not advance to the
east. It was on that basis that Gorbachev allowed not only German reunification
but the newly united Germany to join NATO. That was an explicit break with
everything Russia's military and strategic planning in the European theatre had
been about since 1945. The great fear has always been a unified Germany.
Whether that Germany was under the power of another authority really didn't
matter. A united Germany at least according to the Russian read of history
would (and will) inevitably lead to war with Russia.
That reality is looking all too ominous a quarter century
after the end of the Cold War.
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