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What the Baltic States could learn from Israel
2016-02-09
Posted by:ryuge

#8  I really suspect there's a event in the future whose result will be a sudden appearance of a lot of people having nukes who previously quietly assembled or purchased the necessary ingredients.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-02-09 13:47  

#7  (i) Look up the Baltic economies. Not sure they've this kind of money (by the way these are several countries---who don't particularly like each other).
(ii) On the quiet? You can't get a nuke on the quiet. You can fool people, who want to be fooled.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-02-09 13:32  

#6  g(r)om, that's why you do it quietly, by the sly. You know sort of like 'Money for Kimmy', their little bad boy or 'Money for Karachi' like the Saudis.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-02-09 13:23  

#5  So like where did all the Baltic Waffen-SS units go when you really need them. Poetic irony: the Balts heartily agreed in murdering their Jewish fellow citizens as the Germans looked on - and now one wants them to take lessons from Israel? lol
Posted by: borgboy   2016-02-09 13:09  

#4  Trying o get nukes is the one sure way for them to cause immediate, and no holds barred, Russian invasion.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-02-09 12:32  

#3  What the Baltic States could learn from Israel

Get nukes.
Posted by: Procopius2k   2016-02-09 08:50  

#2  From Israel, almost nothing. From South Vietnam & Finland, a lot.
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2016-02-09 06:31  

#1  "The Balts can't possibly keep a Russian invasion at bay without NATO's aid. They're right, too, that Western analysts spend too much time imagining Russia taking a Ukraine-style approach to destabilizing the Balts, when a quick, outright invasion is more likely."

No, I think a long destabilization campaign is much more likely than an invasion.
Posted by: European Conservative   2016-02-09 01:36  

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