How many NATO troops were in Estonia, Latvia or Lithuania that were threatening Russia?
Answer, just a bare minimum trip-wire force.
Acting like that's a serious threat to invade Russia which has the #2 military in the world is idiocy.
Do personnel have to be there if our automated or remote weapons are there?
You know the US would not tolerate the exact same treatment it gave Russia. It would justify the need for war, but according to you, the US is so angelic that it can pile up weapons along the border of a country and put that country in a position of being defeated without using personnel and that country is supposed to believe that the US doesn’t mean harm.
Sorry, if NATO piles up weapons along the border, the Western leaders mean 100% harm at some point. Otherwise, they wouldn’t pile up weapons along the border. If the West didn’t mean harm, it shouldn’t have been piling weapons next to Russia.