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Re:Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's tw... by blibble on Monday February 21, 2022 @05:23PM (#30421490)
there already is one

but Putin would probably be pretty safe to assume that the germans wouldn't risk a war for a small part of Estonia/Lithuania (and then another small part, and so-on)

(and that's why no-one outside of france and germany wants the EU army to replace NATO)

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Re:Putin orders Russian peacekeepers to eastern Ukraine's tw... by unfocussed_mike on Monday February 21, 2022 @07:11PM (#30422497)
> but Putin would probably be pretty safe to assume that the germans wouldn't risk a war for a small part of Estonia/Lithuania (and then another small part, and so-on)

Right. He's been carefully boiling that particular frog for a very long time.

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