NATO troops will just surrender in the Baltics. We don't have the will to use our nuclear weapons. Putin knows that.
I would not bet on that.
Outside the russophile bots here, reality is that Russia’s strategic aims are to control the buffer states again, and the EU NATO states will not allow that to happen.
With the low birth rates of the last 40 years, who runs out of cannon fodder first?
I suspect the plan was for the slavic civil war in Ukraine to suck up the Russian military that they won’t have the meat to push into Poland. And Poland is NATO.