Simple: if Russia does not gain what it wants in Ukraine, it won’t have the forces to attack the Baltics. If it does, it can amass sufficiently large forces to do so.
“Simple: if Russia does not gain what it wants in Ukraine, it won’t have the forces to attack the Baltics. If it does, it can amass sufficiently large forces to do so.”
Russia will get what they want in Ukraine, one way or the other - they have made that clear. And should their loss rate get too high the way they’re fighting in Ukraine, they will use more effective ‘firecrackers’, as that seems quite clear also.
So, for the Baltics, if they keep being ‘cute’, once again, they’ll eventually get a Russian response-regardless of Ukraine, and no, Trump won’t bother starting WW3 over them...they’ll simply be ‘re-absorbed’ into Mother Russia. They don’t seem to understand that independence REQUIRES responsible behavior, particularly in certain parts of the world.