So.. during a NATO exercise, a 70-ton M88 somehow slow-rolled past a ‘No Tanks’ sign and into a swampy marsh, where it gradually sank into a bog—on a secured military base, with NATO surveillance assets overhead.
The vehicle was GPS-equipped, yet no signal was received, no location pinged. No distress call deployed. Four trained U.S. soldiers, multiple exit hatches, and not one of them got out.
Seems fucking normal.
This happened inside the General Silvestras Žukauskas Training Area—one of NATO’s most surveilled zones, just 10 km from the Belarusian border.
Clear skies. Mapped terrain.
NATO ISR platforms were in the region before, during and after the alleged incident….
By March 28, the “recovery” site looked more like a staged production than a military response.
Floodlights. Cranes. Hoses. Pumps. Berms…..
Photos showed excavation equipment more than anything resembling “combat readiness” western countries are required to pay for.
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They brought in Polish Army engineers.
Then U.S. Navy divers from another country.
To recover a tank.
On NATO turf.
In a country not in active conflict.
A legitimate military recovery involving missing personnel would have a fully secured site
Standard protocol would generally involve:
➤ Perimeter lockdown — No unauthorized personnel or media access
➤ Operational secrecy — No livestreamed images, no real-time posts
➤ Controlled press briefings — Not photo dumps via defence ministry Twitter accounts
The fact that the scene was open enough for continuous cheese photography, and emotionally curated visuals suggests media management—not military urgency.
The official story asks you to believe:
➤ A GPS-tracked tank vanished
➤ No escape attempt
➤ No distress signal
➤ Recovery took 6 days
➤ NATO had no help nearby
➤ And Mark Rutte accidentally announced the deaths early…
Meanwhile, Lithuania’s MoD posted near-hourly visuals:
➤ Soldiers in silhouette
➤ Cranes in the fog
➤ Troops attending Mass
➤ Hashtags like “We will not rest”
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If this were a genuine incident—four U.S. soldiers drowned in mud, a 70-ton tank swallowed on NATO’s own base—are we really supposed to believe the U.S. Defence Secretary’s priority was playing hoorah with the Marines, while the President hadn’t been briefed… and went golfing?
Perhaps NATO’s idea of “readiness” means losing a MASSIVE tank on its own base during a training exercise, under constant surveillance, and responding with six days of confusion and PR optics instead of clarity and control.
Hard to imagine how this alliance handles an actual crisis.
We don’t even have the names of the fallen, but we have the name of the fundraiser.
$70,000 raised in under 4 hours ??—
Blocked for mentioning it.
The grifts are real.
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