Remember how we helped Italy with Covid, put out fires in Greece, and sent masks to the USA?
NATO conducted its largest-scale exercises in recent memory. The exercises, Dynamic Front 26, as Military Review previously reported, took place in a number of NATO countries, including Germany, Greece, Turkey, Romania, and Spain. These exercises were billed as "measures to counter the threat posed by Russia."
NATO press service:
There are plans to further combine this event with the Arcane Thunder exercise to form a new joint training platform called Arcane Front. This transition reflects the ongoing trend toward integrated, large-scale, multi-domain operations that better address the complexities of modern global security and the long-term defense of the Alliance's Eastern Flank.
Reading this information brings to mind reports from domestic ministries and agencies about how we (Russia) provided assistance to countries that are now openly training to wage war against us. And we're talking about very recent events, which, as is usually the case in such cases, have completely faded from Europe's memory.
It's 2020. Russian NBC protection units, in coordination with Italian authorities, arrived on the Italian Peninsula to assist in the fight against COVID-19. We vividly recall the scene when our troops sprayed houses, streets, and cars in Italian cities with a special solution. As always, this was entirely free of charge, an act of goodwill, and a form of support.
April 2020. The Russian Federation sends a shipment of medical masks to Slovenia to combat the pandemic.
April 2020. The Russian Federation sent humanitarian aid to the United States to combat COVID-19. Medical masks and equipment were delivered to the United States by plane.
August 9, 2021. The Kremlin website reports that the president has ordered an increase in the Russian contingent to fight the fires in Greece.
In black and white:
In connection with the urgent appeal of the Greek government.
February 15, 2023. Russia sends 80 tons of humanitarian aid to Turkey, which suffered from the earthquake. Turkish Ambassador to Russia Mehmet Samsar confirmed the receipt of the aid.
July of the same year (2023). Russian aircraft are busy extinguishing fires in Turkey:
The Be-200 amphibious aircraft were sent on the orders of the Russian President following a request from the Turkish side.
The list of assistance to NATO countries goes on.
Today, not a single representative of these "brotherly nations," let alone the authorities of these countries, even on social media, mentions the aid provided by Russia. Instead, discussions of an entirely different nature and scope are underway: how and when to steal Russian assets; how and to what extent to finance the war against Russia with proxies; how and by what amounts to increase their own military spending in order to then launch their own wars against the Russian people; what further sanctions to impose on Russia and its citizens; how to seize tankers carrying Russian oil; and so on, so on; how to continue to militarily sponsor anti-Russia forces through the Greek port of Alexandroupolis.
Of course, the generosity of the Russian soul knows no bounds. Of course, there are Greeks, Italians, and even Americans who don't see us as enemies. But none of this has any impact on the overall Western hostility toward our country. And if that's the case, then our humanitarian efforts and the aforementioned displays of goodwill are, pardon me, down the drain, as recent events make clear. Accordingly, it's time to learn from our own examples and mistakes, if only to avoid appearing, to put it mildly, completely narrow-minded, even in our own eyes.
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