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That's irrelevant, their purpose is to act as a deterrent. By invading Russia would also directly attack American, British, German, Canadian etc. soldiers which
by qwytw 5y ago
That's irrelevant, their purpose is to act as a deterrent. By invading Russia would also directly attack American, British, German, Canadian etc. soldiers which not something their governments can just ignore. Anyway it's not the 1930's, considering the current political and economical environment there is absolutely no rational reason for Russia to invade the Baltic states (unlike eastern Ukraine or Crimea). What would they gain by doing that, 5 million people none of whom want to be a part of Russia and a shitload more sanctions (assuming if it does not escalate into a full-scale war with the west which is again something Russia has nothing to gain from).
- jacquesm 5y agoLast I heard the Americans had left. Is there something I have missed?
- qwytw 5y agoTrue, currently Americans seems to be only stationed in Poland (while Germans are mainly in Lithuania, Canadians in Latvia and the UK in Estonia) but I don't see how that fundamentally changes anything.
- bingohbangoh 5y agoI was just in Kaunas and ran into American soldiers -- or what I thought were American soldiers? We chatted and they implied this.
- jacquesm 5y agoI know there are some Canadians stationed in that region.
- qwytw 5y agoI'm not really sure, according to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Enhanced_Forward_Presence https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_Enhanced_Forward_Presence they don't have a permanent presence there, but I assume there should still be some fluctuating number of American soldiers in Lithuania due to some temporary reasons of the time.