Posted on 04/02/2015 1:34:27 PM PDT by WhiskeyX
Russia reportedly has made a new threat to begin "destabilizing actions" in the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania if NATO moved more forces into those countries.
If the Russian threat is carried out, it could represent the greatest challenge to the 28-member military alliance's doctrine of mutual self-defense since its founding in 1949. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined NATO simultaneously in 2004.
Moscow's position was communicated to U.S. officials by Russian generals at a meeting in Germany last month, according to The Times of London, which claimed to have seen notes on the meeting made by an American participant. Most notably, the paper reported that Russian representatives threatened a "spectrum of responses from nuclear to non-military" to NATO troop movements in the Baltics.
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Russia is melting from within, and it’s focus is squarely on areas outside it’s domain.
Tell us Putin, is it NATO’s fault the Ruble is free-falling?
Is it NATO’s fault you have taken military action with one of your neighbors, and have had sanctions put in place against you?
You’ve gone from a fairly level headed person, to one that appears to have a mental disorder. How is that benefiting your nation? Now you want to expand on the negatives?
“Is it NATO’s fault you have taken military action with one of your neighbors,”
Is it NATO’s fault you have blown 52 billion on the Olympics when oil was sky high ?
Predictably Tsar Putin is making claims on more countries
The Baltic countries should respond by giving their Russian speaking populations an ultimatum, “Pledge allegiance to this country now, or get your ass to Russia.”
How horrible, fantastic, incredible it is that we should be digging trenches and trying on gas-masks here because of a quarrel in a far away country between people of whom we know nothing.
Neville Chamberlain, 1938, regarding Czechoslovakia
That's actually the kind of thing that will get Russian troops in there.
And then what?
Putin is talking out of his hat. The Russian Army has had to strip their troops from central Asia to take over about 5% of the Ukraine. All fluff and puff. If we had a real president he would tell Putin “If you want a new cold war, we will bury you!”
LOL, yeah! And that too...
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