Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Not just to abstract Europe, but to Bayern. Check the distance from it to Russia. It is stupid to thus react to tanks being deployed thousands of miles from Russia. They might as well justify the alert by ISIS activity.
It says to Europe and "some of them should be stationed in Grafenwöhr". It does not say they all go to Bavaria.

Quote Originally Posted by Gilrandir View Post
Those (and the Bayerische one) were not exercises but deployments. I don't know if such things are heralded a year ahead. Since the articles claim that these were the steps connected with the Ukraine crisis, I don't think it could have been announced in 2014.
There's an empty line between the part about deployments and the part about exercises, don't mix them up. The exercises already happened in 2014, they weren't just announced. They were partially held in connection with the Ukraine crisis, but you were the one saying that military exercises do not contribute to de-escalation, no?