Moscow’s much-ballyhooed Vostok-2018 military maneuvers involve far fewer soldiers than advertised,

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Moscow’s much-ballyhooed Vostok-2018 military maneuvers involve far fewer soldiers than advertised, Golts says

In an article for New Times, independent Russian military analyst Aleksandr Golts says that the ongoing military maneuvers that Moscow is called Vostok-2018 are neither as large or significant as the Russian government claims but that there is a real danger that Vladimir Putin actually believes the falsehoods his generals are giving him.

For Russian rulers, it has long been “good tone” to frighten the rest of the world with their country’s “military might,” Golts says. Putin is no exception, but the size and even intentions of the military maneuvers taking place now under his watch do not stand up to close scrutiny.

The Russian defense ministry says that the current maneuvers to be held in the Asiatic part of Russia will involve “approximately 300,000 soldiers and more than 36,000 pieces of all kinds of military equipment” and as such will be the largest Moscow has organized since Brezhnev’s Zapad-1981 37 years ago, notions that have indeed intimidated some.

Read more at: http://euromaidanpress.com/2018/09/17/moscows-much-ballyhooed-vostok-2018-military-maneuvers-involve-far-fewer-soldiers-than-advertised-golts-says/