2019, from the former President of Georgia: >Russia’s Next Land Grab Won’t Be in an Ex-Soviet State. It Will Be in Europe. First he came for Georgia, then for

2019, from the former President of Georgia: >Russia’s Next Land Grab Won’t Be in an Ex-Soviet State. It Will Be in Europe. First he came for Georgia, then for Ukraine. Vladimir Putin’s next target is likely to be a non-NATO nation in the EU. https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/15/russias-next-land-grab-wont-be-in-an-ex-soviet-state-it-will-be-in-europe-putin-saakashvili-sweden-finland-arctic-northern-sea-route-baltics-nato/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2019/03/15/russias-next-land-grab-... >I do not expect Russian tanks to roll into Helsinki or Stockholm unopposed. But it would be relatively simple for Moscow to execute a land grab in a remote Arctic enclave or on a small island, like Sweden’s Gotland, considering the strategic capabilities Russia has built on its northern flank. After all, who would go to war over a frozen Baltic island or piece of Finland’s tundra? NATO wouldn’t, but Putin would—because the stakes are higher for him.