Russian Pressure on the Baltics

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airboy

October 09, 2016, 10:28:26 AM
Russia has moved Iskander-M missiles to Kalingrad - their Baltic enclave.  This is an intermediate range missile capable of carrying a nuke.  In addition, Russia has moved sizable forces in the area.  According to the Wall St. Journal yesterday Russia has enough troops to overrun the three Baltic states in about 18 hours.

This is chilling news that is not getting a lot of coverage compared to the Hurricane and Trump's crudeness.
 

besilarius

#1
October 09, 2016, 10:53:29 AM
Sounds like a page out of unca Joe Stalin's playbook.
Wait til the western democracies are tied up in their own affairs, and then take over the insignificant, boutgeosie states at hand.
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mirth

#2
October 09, 2016, 11:03:30 AM
This is an interesting and thoughtful piece on the subject

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/13/can-nato-defend-the-baltics/
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mirth

#3
October 09, 2016, 11:05:23 AM
This time the Russkis are a little tied up in their own affairs already.
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undercovergeek

#4
October 09, 2016, 04:33:00 PM
Quote from: mirth on October 09, 2016, 11:03:30 AM
This is an interesting and thoughtful piece on the subject

http://www.the-american-interest.com/2016/07/13/can-nato-defend-the-baltics/

surely the question is 'will nato defend the baltics?'

mirth

#5
October 09, 2016, 04:40:49 PM
We better or it's the end of NATO.
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

undercovergeek

#6
October 09, 2016, 04:49:15 PM
ukraine grabs its popcorn

Gusington

#7
October 09, 2016, 05:10:04 PM
^Russia took it.
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mirth

#10
October 09, 2016, 05:37:23 PM
Comrade Redenbacher's Popkorn!
"45 minutes of pooping Tribbles being juggled by a drunken Horta would be better than Season 1 of TNG." - SirAndrewD

"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

"Can't 'un' until you 'pre', son." - Gus

Gusington

#11
October 09, 2016, 07:32:26 PM
In Soviet Russia corn pops you...right in the Crimea.
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mirth

#12
October 09, 2016, 07:41:29 PM
In Soviet Russia Korn pops you, for not meeting quota!
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"you don't look at the mantelpiece when you're poking the fire" - Bawb

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Sir Slash

#13
October 09, 2016, 11:09:06 PM
In decadent America the Capitalists have Popcorn and Corn Pops. This is big waste. In Soviet Russia you get corn and KGB provides the pops.  :buck2:
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OJsDad

#14
October 10, 2016, 06:56:43 AM
Russia retaking the Baltics was talked about quite a bit a year ago in the Ukraine Conflict thread.  This RAND paper explains why NATO will not be able to protect them, even if they wanted to.  The question is, has anything been done in the last year to improve NATOs chances of successfully protecting the Baltics?

https://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_reports/RR1200/RR1253/RAND_RR1253.pdf
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