The Russian enclave, located in the north of Europe, continues to alarm the minds of the military strategists of the West, writes Newinform .
The threat of military confrontation between the West and Russia has recently become more serious.A striking example of this is the attempts by the NATO leadership at every opportunity to demonstrate the power of the Alliance at the borders with Russia. However, it was worth the RF Armed Forces to conduct the West-2017 exercise in the Kaliningrad region, in which 12,700 Russian servicemen took part, as in Europe they began to claim that one hundred thousand soldiers are ready to seize the Baltic states.
In this regard, a remarkable article appeared on the portal inosmi.ru entitled "Russian Dubrovnik, which worries NATO", which says that because of "a piece of Russian territory in the" heart "of NATO, the leaders of the alliance do not sleep at night , and some of them even shiver with palsy. " In an interview with the publication, an expert on Russia and the countries of the former USSR, Yurii Jurisic commented on the current role of the Kaliningrad region in confronting the West.
So, the expert told about the Russian enclave, which, according to her, is similar to its remoteness from the main part of the country to the Croatian city of Dubrovnik. At the same time, she told about her perception of the changes that have occurred with the westernmost region of the Russian Federation.
The expert noted that under the Soviet Union in the Kaliningrad region were deployed more than 200 thousand troops, and now only about 10 - 20 thousand soldiers of the RF Armed Forces. At the same time, she drew attention to the fact that on the approach of NATO to the borders of the Russian Federation, the Russian command did not react with a significant increase in the military contingent.Instead, serious rearmament of military units began there.
To replace obsolete weapons, the shelf life of which, according to Yurisic, had expired 30 years ago, came the modern Iskander-M, which has now become a serious deterrent for hotheads among the NATO command. At the same time, she drew attention to the fact that the new Russian missile systems in the center of the EU force the leaders of the Western armies to reckon with the Kaliningrad region, which is surrounded by Western states, but has the means to give a worthy response to their provocations against the territory of Russia.
