Originally posted by Omega Vision
That's a valid point, but I only said that counter-insurgency in Eastern Europe was a possible reason. According to the US military's spokespeople, the training is supposed to reflect "new and difficult terrain our forces might face overseas."They chose the American Southwest, Texas, and southern California to stage the training exercises, so we'd have to look at what kinds of places have similar geography and climates. For Southern California, with its mix of desert, city, and Mediterranean climate coastline it's probably the closest you can get to simulating a ground operation in coastal Libya or Syria on United States soil. Texas, due to its size and diversity, can stand in for a lot of places that Americans might get involved in.
Pay attention to the fact that Jade Helm is supposed to train soldiers to operate quietly, without attracting too much attention from the local populace. While no part of me believes that Jade Helm is in any way prepping for a military takeover of the US, I am inclined to believe that it could be preparation for off-the-record black or gray interventions overseas, interventions where the US doesn't recognize or acknowledge their own operations (perhaps taking a cue from Russia's more or less successful covert hiding-in-plain-sight-and-lying-with-a-straight-face operations in Ukraine).
Why on earth would we be training for a counter insurgency in Eastern Europe, we have zero reasons to deploy in the EU, and the EU would never allow that. Not only that, that would set off huge alarms with Russia.
Secondly, building US cities that look like Washington DC and other cities in America, is pretty suspect.
"Just last February, the U.S. Army unveiled a similar 300-acre urban training center in Virginia, complete with a Baptist church and underground subway system nearly identical to one in Washington DC. After months of being stonewalled, Infowars’ reporters David Knight and Staff Sergeant Joe Biggs traveled to the facility this week and uncovered several other suspicious structures.
While attempting to locate military personnel for an interview, both Knight and Biggs were detained by police and escorted to the base’s headquarters. Alex Jones contacted Fort AP Hill’s public information officer, Bob McElroy, to learn the fate of his reporters and to inform McElroy of the facility’s nefarious background."
This looks nothing like the Baltic Area, looks like middle America, school buses, churches, strip malls, apartment building, churches as such.