But Vilnius is only 10 miles from Russia.
It’s pretty funny that they might actually believe any of the other Euros would have their back. High minded rhetoric fronts a solid wall of unenlightened short sighted self interest.
Is that Vilnius, the Vilnius School referenced in The Hunt for Red October?
Then maybe don’t be azzholes all the time?
The Baltics were unrepentant azzholes during covid. They refused to let unvaccinated into grocery stores. Lockdown meant lockdown, as inside you house. They collaborated heavily with the Nazis. Don’t really care what happens to them.
Absent putting up some sort of heavily defended Maginot Line from sea to sea, there is no way NATO could defend the Baltic States. All NATO could do would be to launch a bloody war to retake the territory.
That doesn’t mean the Baltic States shouldn’t be in NATO. There are good arguments both ways for that.
But it does mean that perhaps NATO didn’t think things through when the Baltic States were first admitted.
Side note, just for the heck of it: The Maginot Line gets a bad rap these days. But it was pretty darn formidable. So much so that the Germans decided to go around it. Later, the Germans tried to attack the line from the rear. Even that failed.
Absolutely! Send those American trillions NOW. Fire up the printing presses. We have 1000 new miles of deadbeat NATO/Russian border to fortify and man. My grandchildren sleep more soundly now that Sweden and Finland have been dragged into this new American financed Cold War.
In this reality...for a couple of weeks, the Russians were positioning for the invasion of the Ukraine. In the case of Lithuania, just a battalion or two positioning themselves would be enough to trigger what forward-deployed NATO troops are already in the NE of Poland, and in Lithuania to react. Russia won’t get a ‘pass’ to repeat the same script.
Also, on tank numbers...it’s going to be a ‘pain’ for Russia to assemble a second invasion force. Maybe some of the T-34s still remain in marginal operational condition.
For a number of reasons, I think nothing much will happen other than propaganda BS on nightly Moscow TV and pro-Putin ‘Bots’ on FreeRepublic write text excessively.
Well, maybe they should do something about their own defense. When I read NATO, I think of the US military. That’s financed by American taxpayers and printing money. I don’t give a damn about being the world’s police. Message to the world: pay for your own defense and stuff.
Nothing deployment of a few dozen W-80 warheads and Tomahawk Land Attack Cruise Missiles can’t fix. Hand receipt them over to countries bordering Russia.
Put an end to Putin playing Hitler.
Restore détente.
then maybe they should build their own deterrent and maybe even combine forces with their neighbors to create a real mutual defense treaty and plan rather than relying on the good ole US to bail their asses out.