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Putin threat of nuclear showdown over Baltics
The Times ^ | April 1, 2015 | Ben Hoyle and Michael Evans

Posted on 04/01/2015 4:31:24 PM PDT by 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,

(Excerpt) Read more at thetimes.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Breaking News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Russia
KEYWORDS: baltics; balticstates; crimea; donetsk; estonia; ethnicrussians; europeanunion; latvia; lithuania; nato; neclearwar; putin; putinsbuttboys; russia; ukraine; ukrainecrisis; vladtheimploder
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To: free_life

Not to worry, Putin will have defenders here. He’s God’s gift to the human race right now, according to them.


41 posted on 04/01/2015 5:47:43 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: Gritty

Aaaahhhh, yes. There has been a bunch of Putin groupies here that thought exactly that. Either that or they actually hope he does take Europe. Europe deserves it just like the Ukraine did don’t you know.


42 posted on 04/01/2015 5:49:32 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: free_life

To the OP: No kidding. Only a Putinist didn’t see this next step coming.


43 posted on 04/01/2015 5:52:24 PM PDT by Greetings_Puny_Humans (I mostly come out at night... mostly.)
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To: Greetings_Puny_Humans

We have nothing to fear as long as we don’t interfere with messiah Putin and his kingdom work.


44 posted on 04/01/2015 5:55:54 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

Sometimes it’s easier to keep going to school than to actually face reality you need to pay that back... I hear ya!


45 posted on 04/01/2015 5:56:37 PM PDT by miliantnutcase
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To: free_life

46 posted on 04/01/2015 6:03:37 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Repeal The 17th

If I were a citizen of the Baltic’s I would be scared to death of America’s word on ANYTHING and would be applying for a visa to Austrailia where there is still a modicum of common sense in government.


47 posted on 04/01/2015 6:18:11 PM PDT by Cen-Tejas (it's the debt bomb stupid)
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To: free_life

Obama, “After the election I’ll have more flexibility...”

Translation to Putin:

Obama, “After the election you can nuke the West, and I won’t give a damn.”


48 posted on 04/01/2015 6:18:53 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: free_life

It has nothing to do with politics or presidents. When it comes to commies or fascists threatening to launch, our generals run the show. If Russia launches, she’ll be invaded and occupied post haste.


49 posted on 04/01/2015 6:21:54 PM PDT by familyop (We Baby Boomers are croaking in an avalanche of corruption smelled around the planet.)
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To: Cen-Tejas

Last year a young couple bought the house 2 doors down
in my international cul-de-sac.
They came here from Bosnia.
He is a detective with the transit agency.
She is an RN at the hospital.
I was a bit leary at first, and held back.
I waited ‘til Christmas to check them out.
They put up a Christmas tree.
He likes budweiser and rock-and-roll.
Nicer people than a lot of the native borns that I know.


50 posted on 04/01/2015 6:28:29 PM PDT by Repeal The 17th ("We The People" have met the enemy; and he is "We The People".)
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To: immadashell
None of this would be going on if there was someone in the Administration with a pair. Putin knows Hussein doesn’t have any.


51 posted on 04/01/2015 6:42:42 PM PDT by Bon mots
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To: All

This is part of Bathhouse Barry’s flexibility he was bragging about.


52 posted on 04/01/2015 6:49:14 PM PDT by newnhdad (Our new motto: USA, it was fun while it lasted.)
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To: RetiredArmy

According ‘to notes’ made by an American at a meeting between Russian generals and US officials????

This is suppose to be a declaration of war from Putin???? I don’t think so....

Further ‘who’ is he sharing his notes?

Seems to me more stirring of the pot...


53 posted on 04/01/2015 7:13:40 PM PDT by caww
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To: free_life

Folks were saying this a year ago that he’d be doing it soon. I know I was.


55 posted on 04/01/2015 7:23:20 PM PDT by Bogey78O (We had a good run. Coulda been great still.)
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To: free_life
According to Martin Hellman, writing in Newsweek, an emeritus professor at Stanford and adjunct fellow at the Federation of American Scientists who specialises in nuclear risk, "The Russian strategy is to scare the West by portraying Putin as unpredictable. If you’ve got a madman in power, a country’s nuclear weapons take on a completely new dimension....................Indeed, in the past couple of years, Putin has gone out of his way to keep Russia’s arsenal in the forefront of the public consciousness. ...... the West hasn’t properly caught on to Putin’s Armageddon game."


56 posted on 04/01/2015 7:36:13 PM PDT by caww
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To: free_life

There is zero chance of NATO attacking Russia and Tsar Putin knows it.


57 posted on 04/01/2015 7:37:11 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: Gritty

It didn’t stop in Georgia or Transnistria (sic). I don’t think Putin and the oligarchs would ever stop trying to acquire more territory


58 posted on 04/01/2015 7:39:07 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: GeronL

Poland is preparing as are Norway and Finland. Germany better get it head outa it’s you know what soon.


59 posted on 04/01/2015 7:44:45 PM PDT by free_life (If you ask Jesus to forgive you and to save you, He will.)
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To: free_life

Meanwhile the idiots running our country are begging Iran for a deal on nukes.


60 posted on 04/01/2015 7:49:31 PM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans
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