Posted on 03/24/2024 9:07:07 AM PDT by Chode
Designing a military can be hard. Designing a military when your primary adversary is Russia is harder...and doing it with a defence budget that could fit within the scope of a single cost overrun on a Pentagon project is something else entirely.
Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania are commonly referred to as the Baltic States, from 2004 until Finland's accession to the organisation, sat relatively isolated on the Alliance's Eastern flank.
Today, we look at how these states perceive their environment, design their forces to counter the perceived threat - and why they have been some of the strongest advocates in both the EU and NATO for extensive support for Ukraine and a decisive defeat for the Russian Federation..
Nobody wants to hecsent to the Eastern Front. Just ask Colonel Klink.
Give each Baltic State a few nukes. Problem solved.
Rule of thumb. Do not gift nukes to morons to lazy or broke to build their own.
You don’t hand a toddler a loaded 38.
Yup, expect a number of countries starting crash nuclear programs, including Taiwan.
>> Yup, expect a number of countries starting crash nuclear
>> programs, including Taiwan
One of the poisoned fruit of not opposing Russia early, firmly and decisively will be the death of non-proliferation.
We are where we are.
Let these mighty Baltic states send their militaries into the battlefield in Ukraine and see what happens to them.
“General Burkhalter, there has never been an escape from Stalag 13!!”
Taiwan has probably had the pieces ready to assemble for many years
Frederic Brown.
Astounding Science Fiction, 1951, “The Weapon”, a visitor gives a loaded revolver to an atomic weapons scientist’s retarded child after his plea for restraint in his research is rejected.
Very cool, thanks for the tip!
We might as well make a little mopney, they all will have them eventually anyway.
Toddler?
Look into the history of the Baltic states and how they have suffered at the hands of the Nazis and Russians. THeyu need deterrence.
They are hardly todders, for if they are, then so is Israel.
“On 13–14 June 1941, during one night alone, more than 40,000 people were ‘taken by truck to gathering points at peripheral railroad stations, packed into boxcars, and then taken to different points in the interior of the USSR’.9
In 1941, Germany attacked the USSR and occupied the Baltic states. The Nazis began carrying out their own repression campaign; murdering local Jews, Roma and those with Communist sympathies. Also, a significant number of Jews from other countries were brought into the Baltics for execution. Altogether some 300,000 people were murdered on Baltic soil during the German Occupation.10”
https://academic.oup.com/book/26719/chapter/195549104?login=false
Didn't work out so well.
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