NATO shows its muscles during its largest exercise since the Cold War. 90,000 soldiers, 1,100 vehicles including 133 tanks, 32 armies.

Le Figaro followed the French soldiers engaged in this extensive training. The exercise also sends a “strategic signal’ to Moscow, says the French Foreign Ministry. “We’re clearing the block! Faster than schnell!” the instruction, thrown out on the fly, goes out: vehicles parked at the edge of the snowy road must give way. All equipment that had been unloaded must be reloaded.