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.
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.