Posted on 05/05/2024 7:24:49 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
A senior Ukrainian intelligence official warned about the threat Moscow poses on other nations in Europe, saying "the Russians will take the Baltics in seven days" if allies don't stand up to Russia now.
The comment was made by Major-General Vadym Skibitsky, the deputy head of Ukraine's military intelligence directorate (GUR), during an interview with The Economist published on Thursday.
The alarm has been sounded before about the potential of Russian President Vladimir Putin looking to start conflicts in the Baltic states. Earlier this year, the Institute for the Study of War (ISW) wrote that the Russian leader appeared to be making an effort to weaken the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) with rhetoric concerning the Baltics—Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia—that was intended "to set information conditions" for "future escalations." All three of the Baltic countries are members of NATO and the European Union (EU).
Article Five of NATO's founding document states that "an armed attack against one or more" of its member nations "shall be considered an attack against them all."
(Excerpt) Read more at newsweek.com ...
They can’t capture a few miles of Ukraine in 2 years.
They would by Oct. quick we must send 1 trillion, and Ukraine will help Biden save Democracy in the IS, and get Biden reelected..
who is more unbelievably clueless or more incredibly stupid,
Gen. Milley, or that Ukrainian Major General?
Are you trying to put a good spin on Russian aggression? :P
Usses needs mo money!!
Sounds to me that the Baltics (and the rest of NATO) should be asking for their Patriots back if they’re so ‘scared’ of Russia. But have they done that, or anything else to ‘prepare’...other than disarm?
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Article Five of NATO's founding document states that "an armed attack against one or more" of its member nations "shall be considered an attack against them all."
https://www.nato.int/cps/en/natohq/topics_110496.htm
Collective Defence and Article 5
NATO
Last updated 04 Jul 2023 11:47
[Excerpt]
A cornerstone of the AllianceArticle 5
In 1949, the primary aim of the North Atlantic Treaty – NATO’s founding treaty – was to create a pact of mutual assistance to counter the risk that the Soviet Union would seek to extend its control of Eastern Europe to other parts of the continent.
Every participating country agreed that this form of solidarity was at the heart of the Treaty, effectively making Article 5 on collective defence a key component of the Alliance.
Article 5 provides that if a NATO Ally is the victim of an armed attack, each and every other member of the Alliance will consider this act of violence as an armed attack against all members and will take the actions it deems necessary to assist the Ally attacked.
Article 5
“The Parties agree that an armed attack against one or more of them in Europe or North America shall be considered an attack against them all and consequently they agree that, if such an armed attack occurs, each of them, in exercise of the right of individual or collective self-defence recognized by Article 51 of the Charter of the United Nations, will assist the Party or Parties so attacked by taking forthwith, individually and in concert with the other Parties, such action as it deems necessary, including the use of armed force, to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area.
Any such armed attack and all measures taken as a result thereof shall immediately be reported to the Security Council. Such measures shall be terminated when the Security Council has taken the measures necessary to restore and maintain international peace and security.”
This article is complemented by Article 6, which stipulates:
Article 61
“For the purpose of Article 5, an armed attack on one or more of the Parties is deemed to include an armed attack:
- on the territory of any of the Parties in Europe or North America, on the Algerian Departments of France2, on the territory of Turkey or on the Islands under the jurisdiction of any of the Parties in the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer;
- on the forces, vessels, or aircraft of any of the Parties, when in or over these territories or any other area in Europe in which occupation forces of any of the Parties were stationed on the date when the Treaty entered into force or the Mediterranean Sea or the North Atlantic area north of the Tropic of Cancer.”
The principle of providing assistance
With the invocation of Article 5, Allies can provide any form of assistance they deem necessary to respond to a situation. This is an individual obligation on each Ally and each Ally is responsible for determining what it deems necessary in the particular circumstances.
This assistance is taken forward in concert with other Allies. It is not necessarily military and depends on the material resources of each country. It is therefore left to the judgment of each individual member country to determine how it will contribute. Each country will consult with the other members, bearing in mind that the ultimate aim is to “to restore and maintain the security of the North Atlantic area”.
At the drafting of Article 5 in the late 1940s, there was consensus on the principle of mutual assistance, but fundamental disagreement on the modalities of implementing this commitment. The European participants wanted to ensure that the United States would automatically come to their assistance should one of the signatories come under attack; the United States did not want to make such a pledge and obtained that this be reflected in the wording of Article 5.
Are we supposed to “care,” or something? Those so hot and bothered by that “bogeyman” Russia better hope Trump wins. Trump’s energy policies would starve Putin of the oil and gas revenue he needs for his wars. That Stalin wannabe would go bankrupt and leave Ukraine with his tail between his legs if Trump unleashes American drilling and fracking!
“London by august”
A few more days to take Alaska!
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Nonsense. Russia cannot even handle Ukraine!
Russia has repeatedly shown it has no respect for its neighbors’ borders. They are ‘dynamic borders’ savages from the swamps and woods who regicided their government 110 years ago. They will lie up past the point of invasion just as they did in their invasions of Crimea and Ukraine.
Russia has recently generated 300k equipped troops. Not unlike Stalin’s 1500 divisions at the end of WWII. Conscript troops are no good and a waste of money unless they’re used. IMO the only reason Stalin didn’t continue to the channel, as they told their troops throughout the war, was due to the US having air superiority and the bomb.
KGB-Putin is a thug and likes testing ppl using his nukes as a threat. The baltics have nukes too. He didn’t think the West would respond to his invasion of Ukraine, just like KGB-Saddam thought about his invasion of Kuwait. He’ll get the same treatment if he invades the Baltics.
“Top” officials from The Ukraine FA, and then they FO
Not standing up is the Biden/0bama Way.
The US has prepositioned military stocks in the Baltics, so the US would immediately be involved in any Russian attempt, even if they had the manpower and armor to do it.
Ukraine in 3 days. Baltics in 7 days.
How’s that working out, Vladimir Vladimirovich?
Pointing out that the troops generated so far and those to come, come at the cost of Russia’s work force, which is already suffering shortages of skilled labor which was sent to the front.
You cannot send all the men to the front and expect to continue producing war materials, let alone civilian goods.
YouCrayne is running out of warm male bodies so they want warm male
Baltic bodies.
newsweak is pure propaganda.
Why post this trash?
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