Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre...
by qwytw on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:57AM
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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 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).
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Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre...
by jacquesm on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:02AM
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Last I heard the Americans had left. Is there something I have missed?
Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre...
by qwytw on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:11AM
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True, 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.
Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre...
by bingohbangoh on Thursday December 16, 2021 @10:47AM
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I was just in Kaunas and ran into American soldiers -- or what I thought were American soldiers? We chatted and they implied this.
Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre...
by qwytw on Thursday December 16, 2021 @11:31AM
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I'm not really sure, according to 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.