“The times of peace are over, the post-war era is over. We live in new times - in the pre-war era; for some of our brothers, this is no longer even the pre-war era, but the period of full-scale war in its most cruel version,” Tusk said.

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    9 months ago

    I don’t think NATO members were ever at risk, especially now we know how ineffective the Russian military is in modern warfare

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      9 months ago

      I think Putin wants the Baltics and hopes the other countries won’t go to war over them.

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        9 months ago

        Yep they are exactly where he is going to start. It fixes the pesky problem of the Kaliningrad Oblast and improves Russian cold weather port access.

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        9 months ago

        They saw in 2014 that the international community will just ignore a fucking invasion if they simply remove the insignia from their uniforms and pretend Russia has nothing to do with it. Phew, thank God this invasion happening in plain view is just some big misunderstanding and we don’t actually have to go help our ally defend themselves from unprovoked expansionist agression

        Talk about conflict avoiding behavior.