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2021-05-13 Europe

NATO's Trillion Dollar Budget Can't Buy Enough Firepower to Save The Baltics From Russia

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Posted by Besoeker 2021-05-13 01:43|| || Front Page|| [4 views ] Top

#1 Before engaging in bear-baiting make sure the bear is chained.

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2021-05-13 03:34|| 2021-05-13 03:34|| Front Page Top

#2 Unless we base a corp in the Baltics, Russia can take them over whenever they want. Russia knows that, the Baltic states know that and we know that.
Estonia doesn't even have tanks. If we were serious about helping defend them, the US would donate 32 M1A2s. The tanks sure wouldn't be able to seize Moscow, but it would make invading Estonia damn painful.

Posted by DarthVader 2021-05-13 08:10|| 2021-05-13 08:10|| Front Page Top

#3 The Baltic states are utterly indefensible. The whole point of adding them to NATO was to provide a jumping off point for an invasion. It's only 200 miles from the Estonian border to Moscow.

Posted by Knuckles Slererong5344 2021-05-13 08:13|| 2021-05-13 08:13|| Front Page Top

#4 Why are we even defending Estonia?
For what American vital interest was it necessary to bring Estonia into NATO?

Our elites needlessly provoke Russia while they shill and whore for China: criminal behavior

Posted by Thrush Craing8281 2021-05-13 08:18|| 2021-05-13 08:18|| Front Page Top

#5 The whole point of adding them to NATO was to provide a jumping off point for an invasion.

Stop drinking bong water. No one wants to invade Russia.

Posted by Rob Crawford 2021-05-13 08:28|| 2021-05-13 08:28|| Front Page Top

#6 So basically the RAND corp's wargame advises the 'Defender's of the planet against Russia' to stick to their respective domains and desist from fcuking around.

Just make sure your whole field C4I is not screwed by hackers 'only out for money' plugged into local intranets, long before the first missile has flown. Or that Estonia's economy is not ransomwared overnight just for entertaining this tomfoolery.

Posted by Dron66046 2021-05-13 10:05|| 2021-05-13 10:05|| Front Page Top

#7 And how do you execute this without quickly escalating to strategic nuclear exchange? Xi smiles.

Posted by Procopius2k 2021-05-13 11:15|| 2021-05-13 11:15|| Front Page Top

#8 And how do you execute this without quickly escalating to strategic nuclear exchange?
Use your imagination:

EMP strike over CONUS from an undeterminable source

Another pandemic using lessons learned from how the world is handling the current pandemic

Global financial crisis 10 times worse than the one in 2008

Etc.

Posted by Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-05-13 12:08|| 2021-05-13 12:08|| Front Page Top

#9 Three words: "Cuban Missile Crisis", and more: "Russians are paranoid"

Posted by magpie 2021-05-13 12:12|| 2021-05-13 12:12|| Front Page Top

#10 Stop taunting the bear.
The threat is CHINA... and inside the Deep State

Posted by Omereling Peacock7108 2021-05-13 13:08|| 2021-05-13 13:08|| Front Page Top

#11 Funny how these topics never even came up while Trump was President.

Posted by Tom 2021-05-13 15:31|| 2021-05-13 15:31|| Front Page Top

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