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Baltic states to build new defences to bolster NATO's eastern border
EuroNews ^ | 19/01/2024 - 22:23 | Katy Dartford

Posted on 01/19/2024 2:43:01 PM PST by MeganC

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To: JonPreston

You’re hallucinating again, Jon-Boy

Putin can’t even get more than 15% of Ukraine, after 2 years and having 140,000 Russian troops killed

FAIL


21 posted on 01/19/2024 4:54:08 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: MeganC

21 posts and the Putin Pep Squad hasn’t brought up the U.S. border yet... amazing!


22 posted on 01/19/2024 5:01:04 PM PST by Farmerbob
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To: canuck_conservative
Doesn't Canada have enough homegrown Nazis?


23 posted on 01/19/2024 5:02:08 PM PST by JonPreston ( ✌ ☮️ )
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To: Farmerbob

It’s Friday. They’re drunk on vodka. Hopefully they’re having a nice night and I mean that sincerely!


24 posted on 01/19/2024 5:04:32 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: JonPreston
Well if you want a Nazi state, then go to Russia!




25 posted on 01/19/2024 5:06:19 PM PST by canuck_conservative (NATO - now celebrating 75 successful years of keeping the Russian vermin out!!)
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To: ought-six

“Russia’s been issuing thinly-veiled threats against Poland and the Baltic states for many months now.”

Sweden and Finland have been taking notes...


26 posted on 01/19/2024 5:10:43 PM PST by Does so ( 🇺🇦..."Christian-Nationalists" won WWII...Biden NOT NEXT DNC nominee!)
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To: ansel12

“Putin’s invasion has more than doubled its border with NATO countries to about 1600 miles.

Did that open up any other points of favorable border terrain? “


No.

That’s the amazing part.

The border with Norway is extremely remote Arctic with very few roads.

the border with Finland excluding the Vyborg peninsula is heavily forested with very few roads (that’s why the Ussr had such trouble in the Winter War). The Vyborg peninsula north of St Petersburg has large numbers of lakes, rivers and marches.

The Estonian border has rivers, lakes and marshes with very few roads.

The southern part of the Latvia border is vulnerable and was the invasion route of Army Group North in Barbarossa.

The Belarus border north of the Pripets Marshes is vulnerable and was the route for Army Group Center in Barbarossa.

The most vulnerable border, and by far the longest stretch is the Ukraine border between the Belarus border/Pripets marshes and Karkhiv. That was the Route for Barbarossa Army Group South.

Also, the 1991 border South of Kharkiv is very vulnerable to a march on Moscow.

For anyone who is interested, this is a Canadian Reserve Staff officer going thru a terrain analysis of the Ukraine Russia border.

(relevant section starts at the prompt)

https://youtu.be/00RGPa9CQgw?t=915


27 posted on 01/19/2024 5:19:21 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Finland will be happy to learn that.


28 posted on 01/19/2024 5:32:32 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: ansel12
It is not a surprise to them.

Finland lost territory after the Winter War to give the USSR more defensible borders.


29 posted on 01/19/2024 5:49:40 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

Yet they areso afraid of Russian invasion that they requested to join NATO’s defensive alliance for protection from Russia.


30 posted on 01/19/2024 6:08:26 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: Reverend Wright

Pyrrhic victory for the Soviets. Just like the Russo-Ukrainian War. The Russians may end up getting four oblasts from Ukraine. But at the cost of hundreds of thousands dead Russian soldiers.


31 posted on 01/19/2024 6:12:30 PM PST by MinorityRepublican
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To: ansel12

Terrain can help on defence. But you still need a functional military.

But why build, when the USA (excuse me, “NATO”) provides it for free ?


32 posted on 01/19/2024 6:36:19 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: Reverend Wright

That was pure nonsense, you drifted off again.


33 posted on 01/19/2024 6:37:12 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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To: MeganC

Anything they do will be like a straw house to the Big Bad Wolf.

The “Biden” Administration would welcome Russia invading the Baltics.

All kinds of aid could be siphoned off to the globalist jackals.

“10% to the Big Guy” ™


34 posted on 01/19/2024 7:53:24 PM PST by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: JonPreston

Nice try, Frick.

Your beloved Russia is full of bluff and bluster; it’s only trump card is its nukes. Which is exactly how Iran would be if it gets nukes. You know, Iran: Your beloved Russia’s new best bud. How sad for you that Russia’s only real allies are third-world, and backward, and schizo pseudo nations, and radical religious misfits.

That would explain you, too, Frick.


35 posted on 01/20/2024 7:17:03 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: Does so

Yes, they have.


36 posted on 01/20/2024 7:17:26 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: ought-six

The French must have considered what eventually happened... didn’t they?


37 posted on 01/21/2024 2:30:46 PM PST by desertsolitaire ( M)
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To: desertsolitaire

“The French must have considered what eventually happened... didn’t they?”

Some did.


38 posted on 01/21/2024 2:39:51 PM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule. )
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To: canuck_conservative

“FAIL”

The war needs to end (to save lives) and the font of corruption needs to stop out of Ukraine (to save Taxpayers).

Russia never wanted all of Ukraine. Unless Zelensky is dead or in exile, i cant give a crap about either side, other than be on the side of fewer lives lost (ON BOTH SIDES).

Nato is the biggest fail out of this conflict, as well as the Eurozone.


39 posted on 01/21/2024 3:01:42 PM PST by RFEngineer
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