U.S. troops to participate in massive NATO exercise - from TRUNEWS

NATO will hold its largest amphibious exercise in more than a decade this fall with more than 30 nations and 36,000 allied troops participating, including robust support from U.S. soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines.

Trident Juncture, set to unfold across Western Europe from Oct. 3 to Nov. 6, will take place as tensions continue to escalate between Russia and some Eastern European NATO members who are shaken by saber-rattling in the region and continued Russian intervention in Ukraine.

While the host nations — Spain, Portugal and Italy — don’t necessarily consider Russia to be a major threat, their NATO allies in Eastern Europe do, said Luke Coffey, a former Army captain who’s now a fellow at the Heritage Foundation, a Washington, D.C., think tank.

“The reality is NATO is a defensive alliance, meaning Estonia is defended the same way as Spain or D.C.,” Coffey said. “An attack on Estonia is an attack on Spain, whether Spain likes it or not.”

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