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> The question is less about NATO deployments and more the will of NATO leadership to go to war with Russia over its more minor members This is the point of pu

> The question is less about NATO deployments and more the will of NATO leadership to go to war with Russia over its more minor members This is the point of putting NATO troops in the country: if Chad from Nebraska and Juan from Madrid get shot by Boris it’ll significantly alter public/political opinion much more than if Igor gets shot by Boris. They put these troops in the Baltics so that the Russians would end up shooting kids from a wide range of influential NATO partners.

scottLobster 5y ago
And the Russians just need to surround/pin down those troops with minimal casualties while they secure the rest of their objectives. We're talking battalions, not divisions. Their practical ability to fight an invasion is limited. We didn't re-invade Afghanistan because some US soldiers were killed during the withdrawal.
- dragonwriter 5y ago
  > We didn't re-invade Afghanistan because some US soldiers were killed during the withdrawal. And the failure to do that was very explicitly the basis of massive domestic criticism of the Administration; it took executive commitment to weather popular opposition to maintain the withdrawal policy. So, while the facts you recite are accurate, they don't actually support the argument about political support you are making.