The Baltic peoples who took up arms against the Soviets the first time around were country folks. City folks for the most part were not armed partisans. Nowadays there just is not a large and able rural population in the Baltics. Also, some of the leaders of the Baltics are former commies with questionable ethics. That leads me to seriously doubt they will fight the Russian bear if it reappears.
If their defense strategy is to fight the Russians to the last dead GI, I think we'd be better off having Estonia under the Russian flag.
If their defense strategy is to fight the Russians to the last dead GI, I think we’d be better off having Estonia under the Russian flag.
The Estonians probably realize the kenyan isn’t going to send any GIs. There are no NATO facilities in the Baltics and historically only a few NATO aircraft have been deployed there. It’s appropriate now to expand the NATO footprint in the Baltics but obama is refusing to do it. Given that, it’s hard to see any small European country getting into a shooting war with Russia.
We are in a very dangerous situation right now because of the weakness being projected by obama and the EU. Putin will probe the NATO alliance at a time of his choosing.