"US troops to hold exercises in Georgia, Ukraine
US troops on Monday began military exercises near the Russian border in ex-Soviet Ukraine and were poised to launch them in Georgia, amid tense relations between Moscow and Washington, officials said.
A ceremony inaugurating the Sea Breeze-2008 NATO exercise was held off Ukraine's Black Sea coast, a Ukrainian defence ministry spokeswoman said, against anti-NATO protests and a hostile reaction from officials in Russia.
The NATO exercises "will increase political and military tensions in Europe as a whole," Sergei Mironov, speaker of the upper house of the Russian parliament, was quoted as saying by Interfax news agency in Moscow.
Sea Breeze-2008, which lasts until July 26, will also include forces from Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Denmark, France, Georgia, Germany, Greece, Latvia, Macedonia and Turkey, officials said.
Separate military exercises dubbed Immediate Response-2008 are due to start in Georgia on Tuesday with Armenian, Azerbaijani, Ukrainian and US troops taking part, a Georgian defence ministry spokeswoman said.
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Keep poking, globalist crappers:
BERLIN - Russia has denied that political motives are behind a sudden reduction in oil deliveries to the Czech Republic that began a day after Prague annoyed the Kremlin by signing a missile-shield agreement with the United States.
The timing of the reductions, which amount to about 15 percent of the Czech Republic's imports of oil via the friendship pipeline, raises questions about Russian motives and its credibility as a reliable exporter at a time when the European Union is struggling to adopt a common policy over energy security.
Of course, the NATO war games raise no such concerns in the biased, agenda-pushing AmeriKan MSM!!!
And can you say GLOBALISTS?
Russia supplies more than a quarter of the natural gas and oil used in Europe. Many countries of Eastern and Central Europe are almost completely dependent on Russian energy."
So you better WATCH whom you PISS OFF, 'eh, Europe?
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How come the Boston Globe (and New York Times) don't mention the war games exercises?
Nothing like PUSHING that AGENDA, huh?
