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November 7th, 2013 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda NATO Secretary-General Anders Fogh Rasmussen said the Steadfast Jazz drill, which started on November 2 and is slated to continue until November 9, is not intended to send a signal to Russia, Reuters reported on Wednesday.
“Of course it is a signal to anyone who might have any intention to attack a NATO ally, but I don’t expect Russia to have any intention to attack NATO allies, so the Russians shouldn’t be concerned. So you might say it is a signal ‘to whom it may concern’,” he told a news conference in Latvia.
The drills involve 6,000 soldiers from the Western military alliance as well as non-members Sweden, Finland and Ukraine and are NATO’s largest war games in seven years.
NATO has said that the exercise is based on a fictional scenario, in which the imaginary state of Bothnia attacks Estonia in a crisis caused by competition for energy resources and economic collapse.
Rasmussen’s conciliatory remarks came after earlier comments by a Russian diplomatic source who told Reuters in October, “This is an Article 5 scenario right on our border. Of course it provokes all sorts of questions on our side as to the aim of the exercises.”
Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were former Soviet republics that joined NATO and the European Union following the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The presidents of the three Baltic states visited the drills, headquartered in the Latvian town of Adazi, on Wednesday.
Western officials say the drills will examine the capability of NATO’s rapid reaction force to respond to a difficult crisis on its northern borders.
The exercise is also designed to evaluate the competence of NATO in dealing with “high-intensity warfare,” a refugee crisis as well as terrorist threats all at the same time, while testing ballistic missile and cyber defense abilities.
The military exercise comes after Russia held massive maneuvers with Belarus in September.
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