“The scuttlebutt is the Baltics are next.”
Nonsense. Putin may be a thug and a tyrant, but he’s not crazy. He won’t attack any NATO country.
>> He won’t attack any NATO country.
Conventional wisdom says he won’t.
But it was the conventional wisdom that said Japan would be crazy to attack the US, but they did. It was the conventional wisdom that said Hitler would be insane to wage a war on two fronts, but yet he did just that. There were numerous voices on this very forum that espoused the conventional wisdom that Putin wouldn’t invade the Ukraine right up until 2/24/2022.
One possibility is they would escalate to de-escalate. Push into the Baltics and then sue for keeping the territories they are holding on to in Ukraine as the price of their withdrawal.
This re-drawing of the military districts supports fighting a limited war in the Baltics, Suwalki Gap while continuing their “SMO” in Ukraine.
Watch the Transdnistria vote tomorrow.
Moldova is the next step.