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Rethink your thinking. NATO was preparing for Russian attack through North-Eastern Europe effectively since its creation, and been keeping new Baltic members u
by baybal2 6y ago
Rethink your thinking.
NATO was preparing for Russian attack through North-Eastern Europe effectively since its creation, and been keeping new Baltic members under spotlight for the last 20 years. At least, these countries will fight — something that is not so certain about countries down south.
Where NATO needs to look now is its soft Southern underbelly. You now have a lot of weak, assorted statelets, ripe for the taking there. None of them will stand even a single tank division.
- nradov 6y agoWhich NATO members are you referring to? Russia doesn't currently have the expeditionary capability to put even a single tank division into Bulgaria or Romania. Other southern member states like Turkey, Greece, and the various Balkan countries would be even harder to invade.
- baybal2 6y ago> Russia doesn't currently have the expeditionary capability to put even a single tank division into Bulgaria or Romania. They don't need to if any of many loose states there let themselves to be turned into Russian staging ground. Not a stretch given how fantastically corrupt governments there are, with Moldovia, and its breakaway regions in particular. There was even a precedent: Montenegro once almost let Russian to buy a military base there + humongous lots of lands adjacent to it, allegedly, in exchange for a laughable amount of money going to families of previous cabinet members.