Posted on 01/19/2024 2:43:01 PM PST by MeganC
The common defence line agreement was signed to block Russian aggression in the region.
The Baltic States have signed an agreement to create a common defence line to reinforce NATO's eastern border with both Russia and Belarus.
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia were once all part of the Soviet Union but are now part of the EU and NATO and are allies of Ukraine, where Russia launched a full-scale invasion in in February 2022.
The countries' defence ministers signed the document in Latvia's capital Riga. The three believe constructing "anti-mobility defensive installations" will significantly strengthen their borders, as well as deter and block any potential military aggression.
"In the light of Russia`s outgoing aggression against Ukraine. It is very important to continue our cooperation. The Baltic states solidarity must be stronger than ever," said Arvydas Anusauskas, minister of Defence of Lithuania.
Analysts at the US Institute of War Studies have pointed out that Russian President Vladimir Putin has recently heightened Kremlin initiatives that might provoke future escalations against the Baltic states.
"Russia's war in Ukraine has shown that in addition to equipment, ammunition, and manpower, physical defensive installations on the border are also needed to defend Estonia from the first meter," Estonia's Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur said.
He noted that the purpose of defence installations is to prevent a military conflict in the region.
"We are undertaking this effort so that the people of Estonia can feel safe, but if the slightest risk emerged, we would be ready for various developments more promptly," Pevkur added.
Estonian bunkers along Russian border As part of the 'Baltic Defence line,' Estonia will build hundreds of bunkers on its border with Russia.
Acknowledging that no defence line is impenetrable, Chief of the Operations Department of the General Staff, Tarmo Kundla said the Ukrainian experience has shown the necessity of building shelters from concrete and installing them early, rather than creating them from earth and logs in a war situation.
The concept of defensive installations is based on the decisions made at the NATO Summit in Madrid which emphasised that allies must be ready to defend the territory and new regional defence plans must be developed.
The building process will be carried out in cooperation with local communities and with the agreement of landowners. The price of the Estonian defence facility is initially estimated at €60 million.
The first bunker will be completed in the first half of this year and the public will see it in the second half of the year.
You’re hallucinating again, Jon-Boy
Putin can’t even get more than 15% of Ukraine, after 2 years and having 140,000 Russian troops killed
FAIL
21 posts and the Putin Pep Squad hasn’t brought up the U.S. border yet... amazing!
It’s Friday. They’re drunk on vodka. Hopefully they’re having a nice night and I mean that sincerely!
“Russia’s been issuing thinly-veiled threats against Poland and the Baltic states for many months now.”
Sweden and Finland have been taking notes...
“Putin’s invasion has more than doubled its border with NATO countries to about 1600 miles.
Did that open up any other points of favorable border terrain? “
No.
That’s the amazing part.
The border with Norway is extremely remote Arctic with very few roads.
the border with Finland excluding the Vyborg peninsula is heavily forested with very few roads (that’s why the Ussr had such trouble in the Winter War). The Vyborg peninsula north of St Petersburg has large numbers of lakes, rivers and marches.
The Estonian border has rivers, lakes and marshes with very few roads.
The southern part of the Latvia border is vulnerable and was the invasion route of Army Group North in Barbarossa.
The Belarus border north of the Pripets Marshes is vulnerable and was the route for Army Group Center in Barbarossa.
The most vulnerable border, and by far the longest stretch is the Ukraine border between the Belarus border/Pripets marshes and Karkhiv. That was the Route for Barbarossa Army Group South.
Also, the 1991 border South of Kharkiv is very vulnerable to a march on Moscow.
For anyone who is interested, this is a Canadian Reserve Staff officer going thru a terrain analysis of the Ukraine Russia border.
(relevant section starts at the prompt)
https://youtu.be/00RGPa9CQgw?t=915
Finland will be happy to learn that.
Finland lost territory after the Winter War to give the USSR more defensible borders.
Yet they areso afraid of Russian invasion that they requested to join NATO’s defensive alliance for protection from Russia.
Pyrrhic victory for the Soviets. Just like the Russo-Ukrainian War. The Russians may end up getting four oblasts from Ukraine. But at the cost of hundreds of thousands dead Russian soldiers.
Terrain can help on defence. But you still need a functional military.
But why build, when the USA (excuse me, “NATO”) provides it for free ?
That was pure nonsense, you drifted off again.
Anything they do will be like a straw house to the Big Bad Wolf.
The “Biden” Administration would welcome Russia invading the Baltics.
All kinds of aid could be siphoned off to the globalist jackals.
“10% to the Big Guy” ™
Nice try, Frick.
Your beloved Russia is full of bluff and bluster; it’s only trump card is its nukes. Which is exactly how Iran would be if it gets nukes. You know, Iran: Your beloved Russia’s new best bud. How sad for you that Russia’s only real allies are third-world, and backward, and schizo pseudo nations, and radical religious misfits.
That would explain you, too, Frick.
Yes, they have.
The French must have considered what eventually happened... didn’t they?
“The French must have considered what eventually happened... didn’t they?”
Some did.
“FAIL”
The war needs to end (to save lives) and the font of corruption needs to stop out of Ukraine (to save Taxpayers).
Russia never wanted all of Ukraine. Unless Zelensky is dead or in exile, i cant give a crap about either side, other than be on the side of fewer lives lost (ON BOTH SIDES).
Nato is the biggest fail out of this conflict, as well as the Eurozone.
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