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Originally Posted by Skybird
Eastern Europe and Baltic, the former Warsaw Pact territory. The worries and concerns are for real reasons - Crimean games have shown us that. Use of force, and spreading by power are a key patterns in Russian history - not expansion through being culturally attractive for others. Its about brute force. A language that many Russian leaders of the past and also the current one understand well, so seem to do many of the Russian people, my impression is.
NATO can not hold a Russian invasion of Eatsern European countries or the Baltic states currently, and the Kaliningrad enclave is a major, decisive vulnerability in NATO'S Russian "front", it could turn the whole East into a no-go zone for NATO's most important weapon: air power.
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You seek threat where none exist. How and why would we invade, say, Poland? If not Poland then which Eastern European/NATO country are you talking about, Romania? Bulgaria?
Morever that whole "Russia try to conquer Baltics" narrative is just plainly silly - what use would we have out of a depopulated, de industrialised region that promotes rusophobic hysteria within it's citizens? The only possible reason for the Russian invasion of Baltics that I see is to counter the military threat, comming from NATO.