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| Moscow Lacks Available Forces to Seize and Hold Baltics, Estonian Military Expert Says |
| 2015-04-20 |
| Staunton, April 19 -- Yury Dolinsky, a Russian analyst who specializes on the Baltic countries, says that most residents of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, however much they say they are worried about the Russian threat, believe that their membership in NATO will keep Moscow from invading or force Moscow to withdraw if it does invade to test the Western alliance. But Jaan Murumets, a senior Estonian military analyst who now works at Tallinn's Center for Defense Studies, says that there is another reason why Russia will not invade: it lacks the available forces to seize and then hold the territory of the three countries and control their borders. In remarks widely quoted in the Estonian and Russian media, Murumets said that a rapid Russian invasion and re-occupation of the Baltic countries "would be physically impossible." Moscow would need "a minimum" of two divisions for each of these tasks, something it does not currently have available. |
| Posted by:Blossom Unains5562 |
| #3 The little green men of the weak jawed dwarf pedophile Vlad "Adolf Hitler" Putin are not too impressive in Donbass against the practically non-existent Ukrainian military...Vlad would be wiped out against any real military... |
| Posted by: Spanky Stalin7296 2015-04-20 12:35 |
| #2 Does Russia have the forces to quickly seize and annex e.g. Ida-Viru_County in Estonia? Russia only needs to demonstrate to the world that NATO is a paper tiger and that NATO security guarantees are worthless. Once NATO is gone the baltic states (and much more of Europe) will be under Russia's thumb anyway. |
| Posted by: Elmerert Hupens2660 2015-04-20 01:35 |
| #1 Again, Russia's most immediate threat is the domestic threat from the Soon-to-be-Nukulaar Hard Boyz, which IMO is why Darth Vlad took the Crimea back. Hard Boyz + Global Nuclear Jihad as aided by Russia's struggling economy, + Anti-US US OWG Globalist POTUS Obama + any similar Anti-US US Globalist POTUS successor, + China's desire to regain Mongolia + Russian far East. |
| Posted by: JosephMendiola 2015-04-20 00:23 |