Steadfast Defender: NATO's biggest military exercise since the Cold War | ITV News
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- British forces are taking part in Nato's largest military exercise for decades off the coast of Norway.
The drills, which began on Sunday, come days after Sweden was officially welcomed into the alliance.
A total of 13 Nato members - including the United States plus new additions Finland and Sweden - are taking part in the exercise, which has been codenamed Steadfast Defender 24.
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Welcome to the family Sweden 🇸🇪! Love Denmark 🇩🇰 and America 🇺🇸
Thanks. Finally the Nordics are united in arms. 🎉
@@iamjesper finally!
"In December 1972, Olof Palme (then Prime Minister) made a speech on Swedish national radio where he compared the ongoing US bombings of Hanoi to some of the worst atrocities committed by the Nazis."
Imagine becoming friends with a nation that commits war crimes with impunity, and bragging about it. Good on ya.
@@andriesgeyser5524 but you think its totally fine to become friends with Germany?
@@andriesgeyser5524 I don't understand their logic,honestly,I am scratching my head trying to make sence of their mindset...To expand a bit on my dilemma,the whole of the viking nations can muster a total of roughly 55,700 profesional trained troops/armed forces(Army,navy,special forces,air forces and auxiliary personal combined)The number seems to vary from one source to another,but most sources state the armed forces of Finland as totaling 24,000;Norway 17,185;Sweden 14,600 and Denmark 14,500... And although nobody is debating the quality of their gear,motivation,training and overall troop quality(we can all agree the vikings are damn fine soldiers),I am a tad reserved to what a 27,000 combined army can bring to the NATO table(?),especially not at the atrition scale that Nato is expected to have in the upcoming fight in Ukraine,and especially since all of Scandinavia adopted a purely defensive military doctrine a long,long time ago;They are not trained as offensive forces and where never ment to enter any alliance,albeit NATO or the Soviet Union(the swedes have managed to stay neutral since the napoleonic wars some 200 + yrs ),and how ironic that a day after the anouncement of Sweden and Finland being accepted into NATO ,on the 26 feb 2024 president E. Macron "unilateraly" announces that France will send troops in Ukraine in order to reinforce and stabilize the front Odessa,Kharkiv and Kiev,thus triggering the start of a conventional war with Russia and making all NATO countries fair game(Officialy Sweden and Finland are NATO members since 7th of march)...To put it different,you guys where suckered into joining NATO at the worst possible time ,and,make no mistake, in the impending war against "Ivan" you're lads,along side many others,will serve as cannon fodder and bring abouts extinction in a region ,that was otherwise,outside of the target zone of any potential conflict with the ruskyes...If that is a feat to celebrate ,then I am lost for words,and if you trully count your laurels for this marvelous achievement and consider yourself safer and lucky to be covered by NATO's infamous art. 5 ,think again...Sweden is on the brink of civil war with it's suicidal inclusive politics,they have managed to,somehow,allow illegal migrants of african and middle-eastern(all Islamic) origin to reside in country that now constitutes 25% of it's entire population of 10,42 mil/pax...The grand majority of them are nothing but trouble and would rather fight against the,then for the country.If u add the swedes who are borned of at least one foreign parent ,live on benefits and want nothing to do with the country the percentage goes up to 32%.Based on those numbers alone and you're celebrated NATO allegiance,and subsequent commitment of you're armed forces and active reserves to yankee general staff and interests(let's be honnest NATO is run by US),will mean that in the forseable near future the whole of Scandinavia in the best case scenario,will have only black vikings left;Because ignorance is bliss.
Sweden has 30k soldiers round about. Lets not kid ourselfs here. Capable i am sure but tiny.
Em terra, no total deve ser uns 70k
Do you know anything about Sweden weapon industry?Check it 😉
Remember when the call up comes it needs to have plenty of diversity from all colour, religions and sexes.... If not then refuse to fight, as it would be better fighting the invasion on home soil...
Welcome to NATO Sweeden and Finland
Greetings from
Norway
China in the cut looking 👀 🇨🇳
Dejå, this is Sweden and Finland sending on Short Wave band on 15 meters. LV8PV can you hear me...
Back in the time when Sweden had a big army, I took part in drills where we alone had drills with more people involved.
sure you did, Ivan
@@KandGoodzhe means sweden did drills with more people involved
Yes, as a GenX we had all to do military service in Sweden. Much bigger trainings, at that time.
Biggest warmongering exercise since the cpld war. Fixed that for ye 😂😂
Clown army's fake war game😂😂😂😂
The Swedish girl in the tank put a big smile on my face. I have no doubt that she will fulfill her duty even in the most challenging situations. I also have great admiration for American officers. One of them praised our Nordic soldiers and answered the question of whether we could manage without the Americans perfectly. I think that the Nordic countries alone could halt Ivan, but that would be unwise and very costly.
What makes you think you have to "halt Ivan?" Has he attacked your country in ther past..?
@@briancarno8837 does 'Nordic countries' not include Finland?
@@briancarno8837 Do you have problems understanding simple English? No one I know think that Russia will attack now!
@@donquixote1502well some one you don't know must think they will attack..otherwise why are they having the biggest NATO excercise in decades..?
@@briancarno8837 lol ivan save that question for the american comment sections
Smoke and mirrors...
Looks like a pretty Cold War again
👍 RESTUL VINE DE LA SINE
deoarece este... UN LUCRU FAIN (cum se mai spune prin ROMÂNIA)❤❤❤
defend our own country first !!!!!!
What a joke. They are nothing without daddy U.S. taking the burden of cost
Are you suggesting the larger and wealthier nations shouldn't be expected to have a larger contribution? I mean, some NATO nations are quite small....
Don't worry about that! U.S. just earned some now customers...
Your knowledge of history seems to be minuscule.
Stead fast and go home quickly
God kväll kära foster land ❤❤
Fosterlandstänket kommer lyckligtvis försvinna, sakta men säkert. Vi är med i en västlig allians nu, tur det.
That’s unreal eh
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Thank you . ( 2024 / Mar / 25 )
ending Soviet Union era
Shouldn't train with American troops because if trump is elected president , he could take America's military out of NATO!!!.❤️🇬🇧
Just like he was going to take us into WW3 last time yeah ? You have try and smear trump anyway you can but its Biden that has taken us to this point not trump so who's really the bad guy 🖕
To be honest, one of the reasons trumps isolationism attitude is gaining traction in America, is because many of our Allies treat us like war dogs and forget we are an actual country with people and not just a military to use and then treat like trash when you don’t need us anymore. This is not the case with Sweden and Poland. They actually treat us like partners rather than pretending to be our ally like the UK. We see how the UK treats and regards Americans and it makes us feel like trash. Yes we have a big military but don’t forget we are a people too. I support Ukraine and NATO, but places like the UK we often see look down and treat American soldiers and citizens like disposable war tools. They talk about our poor education and healthcare, not realizing that every time we try to pass a bill to improve it, they get overshadowed by global conflicts and military aid. I’ve even heard some British people say America is nothing more than a military. You have forgotten we are people who only want to support Allies who actually treat us as allies. Shoutout to Sweden and Poland for treating us with respect and comradery. 🇺🇸❤️🇵🇱❤️🇸🇪
Trump was begging NATO members for years for them to get serious about National Defense spending. He would never and could never just take the U.S. out of NATO. Not even his voters would be okay with that.
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スクープ。
Thank you President Elect Putin for your efforts to bolster NATO.
Took Ukraine and..fight Russia😂
There moving troops because nato is expanding!!!! But they don’t tell you that, if I’m Russia I’m defending myself 2
The countries hosting this make up for the bulk of the troops involved in the excercise. There are no NATO bases in the new member countries.
Not looking good.?? Russia will keep just plodding on and chipping away forever.??
That fine they will lose more every day bit by bit
Smart move.
Here's how NATO works on the battlefield and here is your role.
Both Finland and Sweden bring assets and knowledge too NATO.
Only the russians are getting modern combats lessons in a real war, otbers are just holding drills
Lessons? You mean losses. As of 1 March 2024, Russian combat losses amount to 414,680 troops.
They are getting modern with their fielded T-55s
Lmfao @@resistancerat
@@norsenomadsaid some goofy ahh normie who has zero knowledge about this conflict
What heavy machine guns are those? Names? Any gun experts? The big magazine rifles.
We in britain support Vladimir Putin and Russia. Russia rules.
Hardly. There's not one person in the UK that supports Putin.
If there was they'd be kicked out
Why would Russia attack Finland or Sweden? Makes no sense.
I don’t know but putin is very bad he greedy and trying to take over all country’s
NATO and the elite 🇮🇱 wants war that’s why it’s sad , all Russia do is defending itself
Why would they attack anyone else either? Oh, but they do.
@@herptek So, why would they attack finland and sweden?
@@jukio02 Why would they attack Ukraine? Because there are evil neo-nazis and drug users there, obviously now, and it is an imperative therefore for them to start an irrational war.
In my ideologically, or just arbitrarily, designated role of an evil neo-nazi I dislike the whole denazification theme of this war.
Sweden needs more diversity in its armed forces....
Slava Rusiji
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NATO is unable to fight Russia.😂
Russia is barely able to fight one country. Nothing is as confidence inducing to see as how difficult it has been for them.
Indian fangirling of Russians is always so odd. If it came to a war between India and China, Russians would be asking "how high" when Xi was telling them to jump. But you do you, keep sucking up to tyrants.
what a joke
NOT..Oh... puppets...💥🤣😂
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What is it with you Indians and crying laughing emojis?
NATO is now what the Warsaw Pact was back in the Cold War.
Except for the higher standards of living, democratically elected leaders, freedom of speech and not invading foreign nations, just other than that
That makes no sense. It's practically gibbrish.
A member of my family is from there…. Most of it was totaly rubbish. It is a reason it doesn’t exist anymore. But it was one thing they had which was good. Sewing thread…. But I guess they needed to repair a lot 😀
CSTO is rather like the Warsaw pact, even if not the actual successor. The point is the same: To keep the victims, I mean the members, from seeking security arrangements against Russian aggression. Russia feels the need to keep a zone of countries around it that it is free to invade any time for whatever reason.
@@shamrock141 "higher standards of living" ever heard of inflation u dmbas? "democratically elected leaders" what a joke lol, "freedom of speech" another joke, "not invading foreign nations" lmaoo this one cracked me up
European nations need to invest in defense to protect their respective populations, not the sparsely-populated Nordics on the periphery geographically. There's really not that much worth protecting that far north. It's bleak generally. The Nordic peninsula needs to be evacuated, before it becomes a battlefield. Otherwise there is a real risk of Nordic nations, the least self-sufficient nations in the world due to unfortunate geography and miserable climate, risk becoming humanitarian crises withing months of a wider war unfolding, which is actually looking increasingly likely.
clearly 'John' forgot to take his medicine this morning
@@KandGoodz Why do you think the Nordics are so sparsely populated and contributed so little to the rest of Europe, in terms of culture? Clearly, you're on something.
Master strategist
What in god's holy name are you blathering about? I told you not to drink that vatnik soup in the fridge! Jeez...
@@KingOfParrotsThe Russians don't seem to even understand that absolutely no one can take them seriously anymore even if they do their utmost to be generous.
Yassss!!! 👏
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