NATO airfield jump will appear in Georgia

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The United States and Georgia have agreed to modernize the infrastructure of the Vaziani airfield with the aim of creating a major NATO military logistics center, reports Kommersant.

NATO airfield "jump" to appear in Georgia




According to Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izoria, the creation of the NATO-Georgia Defense Readiness Center will raise cooperation with the alliance to a new level.

This center will be the third NATO facility in Georgia. The first is a training center for mountain shooters in Sachkhere, the second is a training center in Krtsanisi.

The initiative to build a new facility belongs to the Georgian side. In October, Izoria invited the Americans to continue the development of military infrastructure in the country, meaning Vaziani. After modernization, the airfield will be able to receive any transport aircraft of NATO countries.

The cost of work is still unknown. Technical details are under discussion, noted Izoria.

As the Georgian expert Irakli Aladashvili noted, a modern airfield is necessary for NATO forces to quickly transfer troops in the event of an exacerbation of the situation. In his opinion, the choice on Vaziani was not accidental - the airfield built there in 1942, taking into account its strategic location, played a key role in building the military infrastructure of the entire South Caucasus.

In addition, the Georgian Defense Ministry often conducts maneuvers in the Vaziani area with the participation of NATO forces, and it is more convenient to transfer equipment by air than by sea, the expert explained.

At the same time, he stressed that there is no talk about creating a full-fledged American base in Georgia. Although the current plan is a very serious step in this direction, he added.
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  1. +13
    14 November 2018 13: 19
    Georgia does not play enough with NATO.
    In past games, they lost Abkhazia and South Ossetia.
    Oh, play out.
    1. +17
      14 November 2018 13: 21
      Georgia is actually in NATO ... They didn’t finish in 2008 ..
      1. +6
        14 November 2018 13: 25
        The key to Georgia is Baku oil.
        If Pashinyan plays with the United States, Russia can support Azerbaijan.
        Friendship with Azerbaijan is a checkmate of Armenia and Georgia.
        1. +1
          14 November 2018 14: 16
          The initiative to build a new facility belongs to the Georgian side. In October, Izoria invited the Americans to continue the development of military infrastructure in the country, meaning Vaziani. After modernization, the airfield will be able to receive any transport aircraft of NATO countries.

          This is a pseudo-Georgian choice imposed by the Pentagon.

          First of all. For sovereignly dependent countries - Georgia, Ukraine, Poland, etc. - In principle, there are no "national" initiatives of their own at the "top". Georgia's request is just a voice for Washington's wishes.

          Secondly. The assurances of Georgian Defense Minister Levan Izoria that "with the establishment of a NATO Defense Readiness Center, Georgia will raise cooperation with NATO to a new level" is nothing more than an assurance by the TRAITOR of the Georgian people in favor of the United States and its Pentagon.

          And thirdly. Georgia’s possible entry into NATO as a consumable for the Pentagon it does not at all mean and does not guarantee the future of the Georgian people the possibility for their geopolitical and physical existence in general.
          1. +2
            14 November 2018 17: 52
            they are stupid, if our missiles are aimed at them, the meaning of their life then ??
        2. +2
          14 November 2018 16: 47
          Quote: Bearded
          The key to Georgia is Baku oil.
          If Pashinyan plays with the United States, Russia can support Azerbaijan.
          Friendship with Azerbaijan is a checkmate of Armenia and Georgia.

          An article about Georgia, are Armenians to blame here too?
        3. +1
          14 November 2018 17: 53
          Quote: Bearded
          The key to Georgia is Baku oil.
          If Pashinyan plays with the United States, Russia can support Azerbaijan.
          Friendship with Azerbaijan is a checkmate of Armenia and Georgia.

          Azerbaijan is already friends with the Turks
      2. +8
        14 November 2018 13: 27
        Quote: 210ox
        Georgia is actually in NATO ... They didn’t finish in 2008 ..

        Yes, but it was necessary ... now the situation with Ukraine is the same ... our diplomats are counting on the fact that they will not be taken to NATU because of territorial problems, but it wasn’t there .. America urgently needs to be surrounded by posidons ..
        1. +6
          14 November 2018 13: 30
          And not only the Poseidons.
          Cold War 2.0 needs to be won.
          1. +5
            14 November 2018 13: 32
            Quote: Bearded
            And not only the Poseidons.
            Cold War 2.0 needs to be won.

            It is advisable not to bring to the acute phase when nuclear weapons will be used .. but in general it’s easier said than to win .. Now we have much less trump cards than during the USSR .. The cowboy’s fervor would be transferred to China, let it be amused, but we should take advantage of it. Well, and as an argument, you still need to impose posidon on America, but give a hint, fight and the tsunami will wash you off into the depths of history ..
            1. +3
              14 November 2018 13: 37
              Our main trump card in the game "for Georgia" is our market. It should be so convincing for their goods that NATO with its bases would walk away. Georgians are not one of those who do not understand their benefits.
              1. +5
                14 November 2018 14: 10
                Our market must be convincing for ourselves. For our industry.
                1. +5
                  14 November 2018 14: 36
                  Market?! Come on! There is a more substantial argument - a huge military airfield in Gudauta (Abkhazia). Bounce time - zero minutes. For nothing our government pays Russian pensions to "local" ones. It's time to use the Soviet legacy!
            2. 0
              14 November 2018 13: 45
              GDP has a new concept of the Cold War and the arms race - multipolar.
              Check out the news feed on VO: all countries are arming.
              Our weapons are optimal in terms of price / quality. More and more multipolar partners will buy it. Especially after the Syrian advertising campaign.
        2. +4
          14 November 2018 13: 34
          Yes, why were they allowed it? Again business with former, more than once betraying?
          1. +2
            14 November 2018 13: 46
            Borjomi for the kidneys is beneficial. drinks
            1. +3
              14 November 2018 14: 02
              And Kislovodsk and many are not worse, we have better sales. It is necessary to develop resorts and sanatorium infrastructure!
              Aw, where are those goats - the lodoi who buy clubs over the hill, yachts and other garbage over the hill. It is necessary to take such for the gills ... the costs for them are not great, more and arrived will bring investments!
              We have people after well-spent holidays, liver, kidneys, spleen. actively treats, everywhere ... i.e. demand is guaranteed!
              1. +3
                14 November 2018 15: 38
                If the resorts of KMV Kislovodsk, Zheleznovodsk, Essentuki are done at the European level, then we will not need any foreign countries, on the contrary, they will come from there. And now resorts are recognized as unprofitable and are slowly becoming extinct. Here is such a sad analysis.
            2. +1
              14 November 2018 15: 33
              Today's Borjomi, like heaven from earth, differs from the present with its homeopathic dose of water from the source - so it’s kind of like tap water that smells bad of hydrogen sulfide and the taste of something nasty. And this is to buy?!?
        3. 0
          15 November 2018 09: 40
          I agree. If the "partners" had not been thrown out in due time, and in a couple of days they had already captured Tbilisi, now a pro-Russian puppet would be sitting there. And all the Georgians on every corner shouted about love for the Russians.
          ... Saakashvili, I think, by this time they would have pulled out of the loop ... Why should they rot for so long, and upside down. Moreover, and not hanged over his head
      3. +1
        14 November 2018 17: 20
        Quote: 210ox
        Georgia is actually in NATO ... They didn’t finish in 2008 ..

        Next in line is Ukraine, then Kazakhstan .. The ring is shrinking, but the Russians are not giving up!
        And yet, the plans of the West to strangle Russia are crumbling .. They did not take into account the Russian spirit, they thought everyone sold out (for jeans and a gum with porn magazines))) and now we have them.
        Now they are afraid, as if we were rightly afraid of them and weary soldier
        And Georgia, etc. And we will survive it, everything will be "Chito, Brito Chito, Margarito ooooo" .. Eh kikabidze, sold out, God be your judge!
    2. +1
      14 November 2018 13: 37
      Oh play out
      So Mishiko will return to them again laughing And then the owners do not know where to attach it already laughing
      1. +1
        14 November 2018 13: 51
        Hang Mishiko on a tie.
        1. +3
          14 November 2018 14: 03
          Nah, they don’t have time, he quickly has them ... checked!
    3. SSR
      +3
      14 November 2018 14: 07
      Quote: Bearded
      Oh, play out.

      At first I read the headline like that.
      NATO 'jump' syndrome to appear in Georgia

      Then I thought, maybe Nato will have Georgian bounce syndrome?
      In general, quarrels for offtopic.)))
    4. +3
      14 November 2018 16: 00
      Here it no longer smells of toys, but of intimacy, as if with the advent of Pashinyan and Armenia, one would want to participate in this brawl.
    5. +1
      15 November 2018 07: 29
      NATO airfield jump will appear in Georgia

      named Mimino recourse
  2. +2
    14 November 2018 13: 19
    In addition to Stalin, Georgia did not give us anything good. Almost in vain they saved them from the Turks. The princes were left alone.
    1. +8
      14 November 2018 13: 21
      Georgians say that in their entire history they lived well only 70 years under the Soviet regime.
      1. +5
        14 November 2018 14: 18
        Quote: Bearded
        Georgians say that in their entire history they lived well only 70 years under the Soviet regime.

        Who would doubt that. 4 times more consumed than produced.
    2. +8
      14 November 2018 13: 32
      Quote: Tank jacket
      In addition to Stalin, Georgia did not give us anything good.

      Does Prince Bagration count?
      1. +2
        14 November 2018 13: 34
        Plus, I forgot about Bagration!
        1. -3
          14 November 2018 13: 50
          Are you talking about the name of the operation in Belarus against Hitler Germany?
    3. 0
      14 November 2018 14: 03
      Yeah, I also thought that proud Georgian blood remained in the late princes.
      1. +1
        14 November 2018 15: 07
        and thieves in law
    4. 0
      14 November 2018 14: 48
      Tank jacket
      Today, 13: 19
      NEW
      +1
      In addition to Stalin, Georgia did not give us anything good. Almost in vain they saved them from the Turks. The princes were left alone.

      Why say so ??
      Either you do not know history well, or you deliberately belittle the role of people who left a noticeable mark in the history of our state.
  3. IGU
    +1
    14 November 2018 13: 22
    Georgia said goodbye to its independence.
    1. +4
      14 November 2018 13: 27
      And on whom did Georgia not depend? Right: from Honduras.
    2. +2
      14 November 2018 13: 29
      She, this independence they did not need .. They were always looking for a "good uncle."
  4. 0
    14 November 2018 13: 23
    The main target in the middle of the airfield is to draw a larger target.
  5. +3
    14 November 2018 13: 23
    Strategically, such a base, or the airfield will not give anything. About 500 km from the Black Sea, less than 250-300 from the Caspian. Even less than 100 km from South Ossetia, about 100-150 km from the territory of the Russian Federation. Even the expanders will not have to be installed, in a couple of three years before there the rocket artillery will reach.
    1. +2
      14 November 2018 13: 39
      Therefore, NATO does not start serious bases of serious discussion.
      1. -1
        14 November 2018 16: 34
        However, getting closer and closer, I really want to give on the wort. So the loop will be tightened. I would very much like to know what our strategists think about this, sometimes their silence rings, already deaf from the silence.
    2. +4
      14 November 2018 14: 32
      Quote: japan-k
      Strategically, such a base, or the airfield will not give anything.

      I agree ... the base is included in the list of "haemorrhoids" (problematic) for aviation soldier Ulan-Ude with its "circle" at an altitude of 1500 meters ... seems like "childish babble" compared to the "circle" in Vazian - 4000 meters wassat (this is from the 2nd to the 3rd U-turn) soldier
      And in the complex "there to fly" .. just ... "white fur-bearing animal" wassat well, like almost all "mountain airfields" in Georgia ... the art of landing in a "wind tunnel" ... with a wind of 15 meters, the oncoming approach is practically on MBFR wassat , about the ARC "forget" as .. "bad dream" ... there is a plant right in alignment.
      Well, "go" to the "citizens" at the international airport in Tbilisi .... or vice versa ... it's like ..... "two fingers ..oboswalt" wassat soldier
      1. +1
        14 November 2018 15: 19
        A very sensible comment, one of the few. But close Amero got close.
  6. +4
    14 November 2018 13: 24
    This center will be the third NATO facility in Georgia. The first is a training center for mountain shooters in Sachkhere, the second is a training center in Krtsanisi.
    They obviously don’t want to mention the biolaboratory ...
  7. +5
    14 November 2018 13: 28
    It was necessary to blow up this base when our troops were withdrawing from Georgia.
  8. +1
    14 November 2018 13: 32
    Why did they allow their Borjomi and what else?
    These are jackals, they are looking into the mouth of only one dog and this is not the two main Eagle!
    Let Natushka supply his Borjomi and everything else, once and for all!
    1. +5
      14 November 2018 13: 40
      Quote: rocket757
      Why did they allow their Borjomi and what else?
      These are jackals, they are looking into the mouth of only one dog and this is not the two main Eagle!
      Let Natushka supply his Borjomi and everything else, once and for all!

      When this was done, even then I was against .. All cooperation should be curtailed, up to a ban on flights across the territory of Russia .. Accepting on your territory a potential enemy of Russia - no trade at all ...
      1. +1
        14 November 2018 13: 48
        Sanctions must be selective, beneficial to us. As teaches GDP.
      2. +2
        14 November 2018 13: 50
        You can’t say for sure, this is our original or our guide to the rake likes to stomp!
        Quote: Svarog
        Accept aggressor on your territory - no trade

        Not the first time, after all, in the recent history of identity too!
  9. +9
    14 November 2018 13: 35
    In my opinion, our three strategic mistakes at the beginning of the 21st century:
    - "abstained" from the UN Security Council vote on Libya (President Medvedev),
    - stopped our tanks 40 km away. from Tbilisi at the "request" of Sarkozy (the same president),
    - entered into the "Minsk agreements" on Ukraine when it had already "gone to bed". (President Putin).
    1. +1
      14 November 2018 14: 08
      Yes, it’s clear here that they took our fright. The howl raised then the noble. To the Crimea and Syria, now everything is different. BUT there will be mistakes, and we and they ... And so we live.
    2. +3
      14 November 2018 14: 12
      Our strategic mistake is the 91 year!
      1. 0
        14 November 2018 14: 59
        NordUral ....Our strategic mistake is the 91st year!

        It was the 20th century. Yes hi
      2. 0
        14 November 2018 15: 42
        Nord Ural! Agree with you! Just do not kick me, please !!)))
        1. 0
          14 November 2018 15: 43
          Good day! I got excited, I repent, Lyudmila Yakovlevna.
  10. +8
    14 November 2018 13: 37
    they are testing bacteriological weapons on your citizens and you give them bravo airfields! no army is better than your own! pseudo unions without common interests are fiction!
  11. +1
    14 November 2018 13: 39
    Quote: Bearded
    The key to Georgia is Baku oil.
    If Pashinyan plays with the United States, Russia can support Azerbaijan.
    Friendship with Azerbaijan is a checkmate of Armenia and Georgia.

    Along the way, everything goes to
  12. 0
    14 November 2018 13: 40
    Quote: Sergey39
    The main target in the middle of the airfield is to draw a larger target.


    Yes, he was already "shot" along the way smile
  13. 0
    14 November 2018 13: 41
    Quote: japan-k
    Strategically, such a base, or the airfield will not give anything. About 500 km from the Black Sea, less than 250-300 from the Caspian. Even less than 100 km from South Ossetia, about 100-150 km from the territory of the Russian Federation. Even the expanders do not have to install, in a couple of three years before there, and rocket artillery will reach.


    If Georgia will still exist by then laughing
  14. 0
    14 November 2018 13: 42
    Here is the including and for such situations, RTOs, river-sea missile ships are being built in the Russian Federation. Which will be based on the Caspian. So there’s nothing to worry about. Given that Georgia still does not have any perfect missile defense systems
  15. +3
    14 November 2018 14: 24
    For every NATO jump airfield, you need a medium-range missile with a nuclear warhead aimed at the last
  16. +2
    14 November 2018 14: 33
    Why are you, why not spend such money on nuclear warheads, clog nature with radiation (and this is still not a long way from our borders). Moreover, the maintenance, storage and disposal of nuclear material will be much more expensive. Several units of conventional missiles, with warheads weighing about 300-500 kg, will do their job. And cheaper and safer.
  17. +1
    14 November 2018 14: 43
    Georgians found themselves ?! And the male choir tightened his favorite song about the main thing. About a freebie.
  18. 0
    14 November 2018 15: 41
    Well now, Vaziani will be in the sight of our missiles.
  19. -1
    14 November 2018 18: 06
    Wrong look gentlemen! A second Georgia is hatching in the South Caucasus.

    Billions of Violations Revealed in Gazprom Armenia: Criminal Case Initiated

    Read more: https://ru.armeniasputnik.am/economy/20181114/15661930/v-gazprom-armenia-vyyavleny-narusheniya-na-milliardy-zavedeno-ugolovnoe-delo.html
  20. +1
    14 November 2018 20: 48
    An excellent target for Iskander with special warheads.
  21. 0
    14 November 2018 21: 23
    US and Georgia agree to modernize Vaziani airfield infrastructure with the goal of creating a large NATO military logistics center there

    The favorable location of the airfield .... from it you can control the South of Russia and the Eastern part of the Black Sea, the next logical step will be the creation of a NATO "maritime logistics" center in Batumi ...
  22. 0
    14 November 2018 22: 00
    Fixed target appears in Georgia
  23. 0
    15 November 2018 07: 55
    ... to draw on it a target for the Iskander is business! bully

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