There was a good article yesterday in the Financial Times about the Russian Wargames in Belarus, but the news generated by the German Defense Minister made more headlines than the games themselves. Reuters is saying she announced at a press conference that the Russians were putting 100,000 troops in the area, causing the Russians to feign surprise at that number. The Germans can count, and obviously have the capability to see that far with little help. It's not like you can hide that many troops. The FT article says there is quite a bit of armor, planes and artillery in that mix, right between Belarus and Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and Poland. The Ukraine can show you what happens when there are war games just across the border and the staging of troops who don't go home when it is over. Unlike the Ukraine, Belarus would be gone, swallowed up without so much as a peep. This would not be a fight.
As for those other countries on the boundary, the Russians better think twice about going in that direction. These are strong people who work hard and are family focused. They respect the Russians but they don't fear them.
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