To (separately) sum up, Russian leadership specifically avoided significant military build up in Kaliningrad area specifically and the North-Western operationaly-strategic axis in general by:
- not expanding the land forces in the area significantly.
- not expanding the Baltic Fleet significantly.
- delaying rearmament of key land units in Kaliningrad area.
- not running a Navy rearmament program.
At the same time compare and contrast this with:
- massive build up of land forces in the South-Western operational-strategic axis post 2014 (but not prior to 2014).
- units in Eastern, Southern and Central MDs receiving priority for the new A2AD systems.*
- emergency Naval program for the Black Sea Fleet.
*- with the obvious exception for the Moscow Air Defense Region which got the new SAMs first.
p.s. if anything I find the forces we have in the North-Western operational-strategic axis underwhelming, as those would be hard pressed to conduct a defense against a NATO offensive out of Poland simply due to their small combat strength, but I guess the changes in organisation and thus improved cohesion would allow us to redeploy and conduct counter strokes appropriately.
p.p.s it is amusing how people talk about repeating Crimea or even Donbas events in Baltics and more so in Poland, considering that the conditions are different. I guess those Euro-Atlantic elites really need to generate an external enemy in Russia for internal mobilisation of support.
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Grumpy as always.
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