There is no unity in Europe, why is it dangerous?
2022.11.21 07:29
There is no unity in Europe, why is it dangerous?
Budrigannews.com – When Lithuanian children returned to school in the fall, some of their schools were covered with new logos: hundreds were marked with bombs. The Finnish Defense Forces are assembling a modular military base and working on landing jet planes on the highway.
Planners from the Baltic states in the north and Romania in the southwest are carefully studying possible routes of military efforts, plan to strengthen bridges, add military and civilian functions to civilian airports, more than three dozen civil-military officials from eight European countries told Reuters.
After 25 years of fighting conflicts abroad, the Alliance suddenly has to show the enemy world that it can respond to a threat to any place along the border,” the chief military adviser told Reuters.
He’s not ready yet, he said.
“In some, not only eastern countries, but in some, very numerous countries, there is a shortage of infrastructure,” said Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer, chairman of the US military committee.
The European Union stated that the Russian invasion of Ukraine increased the urgency of the fact that Europe’s transport infrastructure should meet dual civilian and defense purposes, and also accelerated the financing of the project to support the mobility of military troops.
In Brussels, $1.6 billion has been allocated. EUR 1.67 billion dollars for military projects in the bloc in 2021-2027, which is included in the broader budget of 33.7 billion. The Euro, known as the Connecting Europe Fund, to provide key infrastructure projects. The military mobile movement project is being implemented by the Netherlands, and the military mobile movement project is being implemented by the Netherlands
During the negotiations, the budget was reduced in comparison with the initial proposal of the EU Commission of 6.5 billion euros. Bauer called the available amounts “almost something”, and a high-ranking official of the Dutch government on mobility issues, Raoul Bessens, said that “it will never be enough.”
In response, a representative of the European Commission told Reuters that the new mobility plan presented in November “will help the European Army to respond better, quickly and fully” to the crisis on the external border of the European Union.
“We have made significant progress in recent months, but we recognize that narrow positions remain,” said Josepa Borrella, the head of EU foreign policy.
The geopolitical situation in Europe has changed a lot after the expansion of NATO to the east, after the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1991. In the Cold War, Germany was the front line, the country in which the battle between East and West was needed.
Scenarios are more complicated today, planners say. On the territory of NATO, the territory has significantly increased, meaning a wider border of protection, more space for possible Russian attacks, wider distances for military training and a wide range of potential attacks, including cyber attacks on infrastructure.
Military planners say that despite the fact that the war has caused increased awareness, the lack of funding will affect a great concern: the political beliefs of Europe, which, according to Besses, lag behind the reality of the European war and have not reconciled themselves to the hybrid nature of modern wars.
“These are peaceful conditions applied. And that’s the whole problem,” he told Reuters.
If a heavy maintenance came to the Atlantic, which had to move quickly to the East, then obstacles could include a shortage of railways, too long and narrow roads, inconsistent information on roads and bridges, inconsistency of railway tracks and paralysis of bureaucracy,” said Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who was commander until 2017 by the US Army in Europe and has been campaigning for infrastructure improvements for many years,” said Lieutenant General Ben Hodges, who has been campaigning for US infrastructure improvements for many years.
“We do not have the transport capacity and infrastructure that allows us to quickly move NATO to Europe,” he said. For example, the German Deutsche Bachn railway has a sufficient number of wagons that allow one and a half armored brigades to be driven at the same time, “that’s all.”
One armored battalion consists of about 4 thousand soldiers, 90 Abrams tank, 15 155 mm Paladin self-propelled tracked howitzer, 150 Bradley infantry fighting vehicles, 500 tracked and 600 wheeled vehicles and other guns.
In military terms, planners should have a “surplus” – a lot of routes in order to provide an alternative if some of them are eliminated. However, the construction of roads is the responsibility of national authorities facing competitive claims on roads.
“What we learned from the war between Russia and Ukraine is that we really reminded that wars are a test of will and a test of logistics,” Hodges said.
School riots.
The Deputy Chief Operating Officer of the Vilnius Municipality, Adomos Buzinskis, said that the photos of people hiding from bombs in Ukraine are aimed at focusing attention on the needs of residents of the Lithuanian capital, which used to be governed by Moscow and is now a member of the European Union, and is now a member of the European Union, as well as NATO.
A Soviet-era shelter was reconstructed in the city, and nothing was built instead. “No one thought about it,” he replied. “It’s obvious now that it was wrong.”
In the basement of the Jaruzales school on the residential street of Vilnius, there is a dressing room with children who require coats or shoes at the change. It is also one of the 370 shelters marked by the city. Buzinskas said that together they could accommodate about 210 thousand people, which was a third of the urban population.
The locker room is designed for a shelter in the neighboring district, but the School director Linas Vasilevicius said that there is not enough space in it for 700 schoolchildren.
QUICK BEAUTIFICATION
In Finland, where the Soviet Union tried to enter World War II and had previously applied to join NATO, independent military training has long been perfected. She allocated 145 million euros 141 million dollars to start fencing the most important sections of the Russian border – so far it was only a conceptual way through extensive forests.
To rehearse the possibility of a new Russian invasion attempt, it is building various types of defensive fortifications throughout the country using sandbags filled with stone dust, as well as modular elements made of reinforced concrete and wood developed by the defense forces to build and move faster.
“We build them strong, ugly and fast,” says the head of specialized projects of GRK infrastructure developers.
Helsinki believes that the threat of retaliation for the application to join NATO could manifest itself in the fact that Russia would send a lot of migrants to the border, which the EU accused Belarus of in 2021, when Belarus issued visas to Belarus to the Middle East, and hundreds of migrants were stuck on the border of Poland.
The Finnish military forces, ordering a new fleet of F-35 aircraft in December this year for $ 9.4 billion, annually conduct landings and takeoffs on dozens of reserve lanes. The Air Force has a strategy to disperse and reduce them throughout the country when threatened, Colonel Ves Mantil, commander of the Air Force Academy.
In sparsely populated Finland, it is possible to land on the highway, but in crisis situations, fighters on the highways of other European countries compete with other vehicles. According to Hodges, since the beginning of the crisis, roads are needed by heavy trucks, tracked vehicles carrying ammunition and fuel, and maybe millions of people who are heading in the opposite direction.
TRANSFER TO ANOTHER TRAIN
Physically transporting tanks, trucks and soldiers to strengthen the front line to the east is a difficult task.
On a foggy October morning, a Czech Army train of 18 railroad cars, with trucks, 730 soldiers, stopped in the small village of Sestokai, Lithuania, near the Polish border, on the way to military exercises.
The stop was necessary to transport equipment and personnel to the next train, since the railways in the Baltic countries were installed by Russia, and they were 8.5 cm 3.35 inches larger than the standard gauge in most continental countries.
The crane moved tanks, trucks and tanks. Two railway workers spent more than two hours to secure the vehicles in the railway cars.
In 2030, it is planned that the high-speed rail line “Relbaltika” worth 5 8 billion euros, funded by the European Union, will connect Warsaw with the Baltic Sea capitals of Vilnius, Riga and Tallinn. But so far only 1.2 billion euros have been allocated.
The Russian armed forces use a broad gauge railway in Ukraine to supply their military: the presence of the same ring as Russia is a security problem for the Baltic countries, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabriel Landsbergs said in August.
Estonia’s state-owned railway operator, Esti Raidtae, has already advised its governments not to restore rail services, stating that the transition will amount to 8.7 billion euros and will lead to a serious disruption of rail services.
“The only way to switch to Europe is to build a parallel railway near the existing one,” said ERR public representative, Kaido Zimmermann. “And then tear up the existing one.”
Be careful when boarding the train
On the map of European highways, the western part covers roads. On the former border of West-East Germany, they narrow down to three or four highways, and there is only one highway that goes to the Baltic States.
This link between Belarus and other European countries consists of a 100 km long piece of land along the border of Poland and Lithuania, known as the Suwalka Passage.
