Putin threat of nuclear showdown over Baltics

The Times ^ | April 1, 2015 | Ben Hoyle and Michael Evans

[free_life]

President Putin is using the threat of a nuclear showdown over the Baltic states to force Nato to back away from Russia’s border, according to notes of a secret meeting between intelligence figures from Moscow and Washington.

Western security chiefs are braced for the Kremlin to begin a series of “destabilising actions” in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania that would directly challenge Nato’s mutual defence pledge.

These could involve civil disturbances involving local ethnic Russians,

[Crazieman]

Don’t worry, America always holds up to its treaties.

Just ask Ukraine.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Missile shield should be Deployed

[Logical me]

Screw this sick little punk. Does this nitwit realize that some NATO nations have nukes also.

[blueunicorn6]

Gosh. Remember when we used to have a President? It was so nice then. I don’t know what Obama is, but he’s no President. With proper, constant supervision he could possibly be a somewhat adequate flagpole.

[AU72]

Bullies keep pushing until pushed back.

[Dr. Thorne]

Putin is a horse’s ass. This is a bluff since he knows that Mother Russia would become a glowing, irradiated memory if he actually tried to follow through on his laughable playground threat.

[free_life]

This psycho Putin might be insane enough to start a nuke war.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...America always holds up to its treaties.
Just ask Ukraine...”
-
America never had a treaty with Ukraine.
Ukraine gave up their nukes based on a wink and a nod
from a grifter named Bill Clinton.

[ansel12]

Sure, now Putin decides that he wants to end it all for his nation of 142 million, in nuclear flames, and let Asia erase Russia forever.

Why again? What is this end of the world scenario that he thinks is happening that now we all need to unleash our nuclear weapons?

[tet68]

Mother Russia would become a glowing, irradiated memory if he actually tried to follow through on his laughable playground threat.

Sad to say, not with the current leadership and
administration, even Iran would not be nuked.

[tet68]

Our problem as always goes back to the fact that we
never used those weapons again, had we used them
in Korea, there would be no doubting our resolve.
Now? It’s a different story.

[Brad from Tennessee]

Once Putin recaptures the rest of the former USSR a good portion of Russia’s masses will be disaffected enough to hang Putin from a light pole.

[Gritty]

Nobody really expected this would stop in the eastern Ukraine, did they?

[iowacornman]

I hope he misses his chance. He could wipe us out like quivering ganglia.

[OwenKellogg]

They just need a jobs program.

[plain talk]

“Does this nitwit realize that some NATO nations have nukes also.”

so what? they wont use them (nor will the US) unless directly attacked.

[raybbr]

Putin is a horse’s ass. This is a bluff since he knows that Mother Russia would become a glowing, irradiated memory if he actually tried to follow through on his laughable playground threat.

Who would launch nukes against Russia?

[free_life]

Lots of provocation going on in Poland, free people have always been a provocation to Russians.

Will the Europeans surrender everything in their fear of this psycho bully.

[Steamburg]

John Kerry to ask French Government how to word the surrender.