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Written by Piero Messina
The Mediterranean is on fire, and while the world holds its breath for the fighting in Israel and the Gaza Strip, NATO does not stop its operational program and flexes its muscles in Southern Europe (a critical area due to the implications for the ongoing conflict ) with an exercise with a “Nuclear” flavor.
The program is called Steadfast Noon and runs for ten days from 17 to 26 October. The areas of the exercise include Italian territory, Croatian territory and a large part of the Mediterranean basin. “Steadfast Noon 2023” is an exercise that takes place on an annual basis and aims to test the nuclear deterrence capacity involving the military assets of NATO countries. Last edition involved 14 countries and up to 60 aircraft including B-52 long-range bombers.
For the exercise, the airspace in some areas of the Mediterranean is temporarily closed, areas which will have to be considered temporarily segregated during the activation. The details are given below. Flight activity is scheduled for 17 and 23 October from 11.00 to 16.00 local time, 19 and 24 October from 12.00 to 17.00 local and on 26 October from 10.00 to 15.00 local. As regards Italy, transit corridors have been set up to allow aircraft to reach the operational areas on the Tyrrhenian Sea from the bases of Aviano, Ghedi, Amendola, Gioia del Colle and Trapani.
According to the NATO General Command, “The exercise is a routine training activity that has been conducted annually for over a decade.” The manoeuvres will involve 13 Allied countries and a mix of aircraft types, including advanced fighter jets and U.S. B-52 bombers that will fly in from the United States. Conventional jets and surveillance and refuelling aircraft also take part. A different NATO Ally hosts Steadfast Noon each year. Training flights will take place over Italy, Croatia and the Mediterranean Sea.
“Our exercise will help to ensure the credibility, effectiveness and security of our nuclear deterrent”, said NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. “It sends a clear message that NATO will protect and defend all Allies.”
The exercise involves fighter aircraft capable of carrying nuclear warheads, but does not involve any live bombs. The exercise is not linked to current world events and the bulk of the training is held at least 1,000 kilometres from Russia’s borders. NATO’s Strategic Concept makes clear that “the fundamental purpose of NATO’s nuclear capability is to preserve peace, prevent coercion and deter aggression.” It stresses that “as long as nuclear weapons exist, NATO will remain a nuclear alliance”. The exercise will run until 26 October.
At the end of the exercises planned in the Mediterranean, the NATO war games calendar moves to Estonia, where “Cyber Coalition 23” will be held from 7 to 12 November. Cyber Coalition includes approximately 1,000 participants from 31 NATO Allies distributed across the globe, several Partners, and the European Union. NATO explains that the program “provides a great opportunity for NATO to strengthen its bond in cyberspace at the strategic command level between Allied Command Transformation and Allied Command Operations”. “This exercise allows NATO’s Cyberspace Operations Centre the opportunity to develop reporting requirement within cyberspace and examine new tactics, techniques, and procedures. The NATO Communications and Information Agency, the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence, Joint Warfare Centre, Allied Joint Force Command Brunssum, and multiple entities from NATO Headquarters, industry and academia are also involved in the exercise”.
“preserve peace”
interesting statement from a country that has been at war for 85% of its existence.
nato is not a country
well it sure likes to act like one
sure it is…the infamous anglozionazi empire of s#it.
nato, the north amerikan terror organ has shown itself to be a flaccid limp dick with about as much virility as the emasculated clown that leads it and the girly men and mercenary trash getting bagged by mr. bear all over fast evaporating rump ukraine. it’s all over bar the collapse of the evil eussr and that’s guaranteed when the last of the freeloader dollahs and eurodollahs hit hyperinflation. z
as a croat, i can say that my country is under occupation by the so called west. that situation is enabled through traitors and foreign puppets using a misnomer “croatian government”, which is not croatian nor is true sovereign government but a bunch of slimeballs, lowlifes and arselickers. national intrest is not a priority of this fake government elected by a 19% of electoral body.
and these chemtrails are not spread by russian, chinese or iranian planes but by german, american, british and dutch military planes and civilian ones owned by cia. it started as soon as government joined process of joining nato against the will of the majority of population. they hadn’t call for referendum to join nato as they were afraid they will embarras themselves in the eyes of their western masters.