If Latvia thinks the USA under Obama will lift a finger to help they—they have been sipping too much of the Vodka they make. IF—and thats a Big If—Putin Marches on them they will be finished in 48 hours—Putin is too busy with the Ukraine —its proving to be a bit harder to seize the western part of the nation—than he planned.
See post 10.
Of course NATO will defend Latvia.
And that is another great point.
Russia is using mercs the same way we do. For plausible deniability. However, the Russian public is starting to wonder how many of their sons and fathers aren’t coming back. Not to mention they are not getting paid.
The U.S is still part of NATO and has not withdrawn from it, the US will fight with NATO if it comes to it, Latvia is NATO.
Oh really.
Russian President Vladimir Putin rejected an offer from the Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko to “take the Donbass”, the area in east Ukraine which pro-Moscow rebels and Ukrainian government forces have fought for control of.
Poroshenko made the offer during a peace summit in Minsk in February 2015, Putin reportedly told a senior member of the Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs on 19 March.
An anonymous source present at the closed door meeting revealed to Forbes Russian edition that Putin told the summit: “[Poroshenko] told me directly: ‘Take the Donbass.’ I replied: ‘Are you out of your mind? I don't need the Donbass. If you don't need it, declare it independent.’”