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2016-02-09 Caucasus/Russia/Central Asia

What the Baltic States could learn from Israel

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Posted by ryuge 2016-02-09 00:00|| || Front Page|| [6 views ] Top

#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|| 2016-02-09 01:36|| Front Page Top

#2 From Israel, almost nothing. From South Vietnam & Finland, a lot.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2016-02-09 06:31|| 2016-02-09 06:31|| Front Page Top

#3 What the Baltic States could learn from Israel

Get nukes.

Posted by Procopius2k 2016-02-09 08:50|| 2016-02-09 08:50|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-09 12:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-09 13:09|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-09 13:23|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-09 13:32|| Front Page Top

#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|| 2016-02-09 13:47|| Front Page Top

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