The United States has launched the biggest allied airborne drills in Europe since the Cold War ended. Nearly 5,000 soldiers from 11 NATO allies are taking part in four weeks of “simultaneous multinational airborne operations” across Germany, Italy, Bulgaria and Romania. It should be noted that the fighting involving pro-Russian separatists escalated in eastern Ukraine. Named as Swift Response 15, it is the largest Allied airborne training event on the continent since the end of the Cold War.
NATO, a 28-country alliance led by the United States, defended the number of military exercises it has staged as a response to “growing Russian aggression”. The US Army will drop more than 1,000 paratroopers and equipment the to Hohenfels training area in Germany. A similar drill will also take place at the Novo Selo training area in Bulgaria, a former Soviet ally.
- The Cold War was a state of political and military tension after World War II between powers in the Western Bloc (the United States, its NATO allies and others) and powers in the Eastern Bloc (the Soviet Union and its allies in the Warsaw Pact).
- The term “Third World Country” does not mean poor, it refers to a country which was not aligned with either America/First World or Soviet/Second World during the Cold War.
- In 1960 UNGA Meeting, Nikita Khrushchev threatened to “bury” America.
- When Soviet pilot Yuri Gagarin became the first person to enter outer space on April 12, 1961, orbiting the Earth in one hour and 48 minutes, Americans worried the United States could no longer protect its people.
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