Guess what message Russia has sent to NATO, then stock your bomb shelters
Rlgrimes - 4/2/2015 - UFP News
We told you last year when Russia took over the Crimea, and started making moves on the Eastern Ukraine, that Putin was acting like Hitler in the 1930’s.
Now, Russia has made a new threat to begin “destabilizing actions” in the Baltic republics of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania if NATO moved more forces into those countries. Is this what Obama met when he told the Russian Ambassador to “tell Putin I will have more flexibility after my reelection?” Does he plan on just sticking his head in the sand or better yet drawing another famous Red Line in it?
If the Russian threat is carried out, it could represent the greatest challenge to the 28-member military alliance’s doctrine of mutual self-defense since its founding in 1949. Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania joined NATO simultaneously in 2004. As full members, should Russia attempt such action, it would constitute an act of war against the entire member organization.
Moscow’s position was communicated to U.S. officials by Russian generals at a meeting in Germany last month, according to The Times of London.
Most notably, the paper reported that Russian representatives threatened a “spectrum of responses from nuclear to non-military” to NATO troop movements in the Baltics. Western security officials say that the possible actions Moscow could be planning include cyberattacks or civil disturbances involving ethnic Russians in all three countries.
The Times reported that Russia warned that “the same conditions that existed in Ukraine and caused Russia to take action there” exist in the Baltic republics.
However, the Times reported that the note suggested that Russia would not “[inject] troops and heavy weapons” into the region,” but would favor “other tools.” The note adds that Russia would “hope slowly to entice those Russian populations towards Russia without giving Nato a pretext to deploy troops.”
If NATO does respond to Russian activity in the region, the document says, Moscow would consider it to be “a potential co-aggressor against Russian-speaking minorities in Baltic states.”
So in other words, Russia is saying that we are going to do as we please with regard to the Baltic States, and if you try to do anything about it, we will just do it faster and more brutally.
Just like Hitler told Chamberlin before WWII started. Putin knows that Obama is a coward and will not confront him in his bids to recover territories given their freedom 20 years ago when the USSR broke up.
Western officials have been concerned that Russian president Vladimir Putin would attempt to bring the Baltics closer to Moscow’s sphere of influence since the annexation of Crimea. Last month, a convoy of U.S. troops crisscrossed Eastern Europe in an effort to reassure allies. The convoy was greeted warmly in the Baltics as well as in Poland and the Czech Republic, despite threats to block its path by pro-Russian activists on Facebook and in the media.
In January, NATO decided to set up command-and-control centers in Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Bulgaria by the end of 2016.
Putin knows that he got away with the Crimea, and Eastern Ukraine, He knows that Obama did nothing to oppose him. So now he is reaching a little more, knowing the response from Obama will be the same Hot Air and Red Lines.
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