> Russia is powerless to stop this, since any attack on a NATO country would likely trigger a counterattack. This is a game of “who blinks first”. I doubt norm

> Russia is powerless to stop this, since any attack on a NATO country would likely trigger a counterattack. This is a game of “who blinks first”. I doubt normally US would use nukes to defend a tiny unimportant country like Latvia or Slovenia, if under attack. Russia knows this too. Someone crazy like Trump just might, though.