Dienas grauds


[…]Nato’s gutsy commander, General Philip Breedlove, wants to share international intelligence with Ukraine and boost Nato’s forces in its most vulnerable member countries: Poland and the Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania.But the White House has blocked the first recommendation. And European countries such as ­Germany are blocking the second.[…]
[…] Having taken Ukraine, he will turn his attention to the Baltic states. Members of the EU and Nato, their lawful societies, elections and ­thriving economies are an implicit rebuke to those who preside over sleaze and brutality in Russia. Now Putin sees a chance to humiliate them — and the West. He does not need to invade, just to provoke. Using social division and agitation he will raise the pressure — whether economic or political — on one or more of the Baltic states until it becomes unbearable.
Nato and the EU — on current form — will merely appeal for ­dialogue and threaten sanctions. ­But nothing will happen. Which means the Baltics will buckle, and Putin will take back lands which he believes are rightly Russia’s.
That will be the end of Nato — and the dawn of a terrifying new world in which international rules count for nothing and the strong dominate the weak. Russia — ruthless and greedy — can play divide and rule for decades to come.

Suppose we do try to resist, with our shrunken armed forces and craven allies? […]

Edward Lucas, žurnālists, politologs

vara bungas: citāta autors ir viens no labākajiem Austrumeiropas ekspertiem un  īsts Baltijas draugs, kas piedalījās rekomendāciju izstrādē par NATO atbildes soļiem pēc Krimas aneksijas. Kā redzams veltīgi centies…

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