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Old 02-23-22, 03:50 PM   #821
Onkel Neal
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We probably must consider ourselves still lucky that it is Biden sitting in the White House currently. .
That must be sarcasm....

...it's worth noting that Putin invades Ukraine when Biden, not Trump, is in office.

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If - and that means: "if" - Russia attacks all Ukraine and conquers it, then a huge part of the Russian army is concentrated in that territory -. and suddenly shares borders with Poland, Slovakia, Hungary. And Putin already has made claim for owning all former Sovjet vasalls, too.

If he plays totally crazy horse and goes all in (which I doubt, but we cannot be certain of anything anymore, he has executed all comfortable certainties we based on in the past 30 years), and strikes in the Baltic region, too, I do not see that NATO, with or without the US, could defend or later retake the three small Baltic states without the use of nukes. Which the US would not use for three small Baltic states, no doubt.
Wouldn't be so sure. If Russia attacks any NATO Member, it's war. Where the nukes come into play? Well, I'm sure they are in the plan somewhere, otherwise they wouldn't exist.
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