RT – NATO is deploying an additional four battalions of 4,000 troops in Poland and the three Baltic States, according to a report citing US Deputy Secretary of Defense Robert Work.
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The article from Russia Today says “a recent poll from the Bertelsmann Foundation that found only 31 percent of Germans would welcome the idea of German troops defending Poland and the Baltic States.” With that statement I’m wondering if RT has a mole in their midst working for the neo-cons.
Germany is a member of NATO and unfortunately, Poland and the Baltic countries are now too. As a member of NATO Germany and all other NATO members are obligated to defend any one of those countries if they are attacked. Like other NATO members, I have no doubt Germany would meet its obligations and come to those countries defense if any one of them were attacked. But I think what Germany and most European countries are concerned about (even if they won’t say it), is the USA ratcheting up tensions to start a war with Russia?
Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia are tiny countries with a total population of about seven million people for all three countries combined. There is no other NATO member that will openly oppose the US about defense issues so those countries can be manipulated by the US. Poland resents Russia (and Germany too) and they are bound to the US because of this resentment. But it was the USSR (whose most important member Republic was Russia) and it was Russia that allowed Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia to become independent countries in the early 1990’s and they allowed the Warsaw pact to break up and release Poland and all other member countries from it’s obligations to the pact.
Most thinking people would wonder, why would Russia let Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia become independent 20 something years ago, only to now want to attack them and take them over again? There were no dire circumstances that made the USSR break up. They could have stuck it out and stayed together, but Gorbachev thought it was better for everyone concerned to let the USSR break up. At the time the USA gave assurances it would never allow those countries to join NATO. Unfortunately Gorbachev got nothing in writing.
In addition, most thinking people are aware of what the US has done in Iraq (twice), Libya, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Syria, Serbia and what it’s been threatening to do to Iran for years. And in addition to that most thinking people are asking what evidence is there that Russia is planning to attack Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia or Poland. They know the only “evidence” that these countries are under threat by Russia is the accusation that Russian troops are fighting in Ukraine. These same people know it is questionable if that is the case (and if there are any Russian troops at all, they are small in number ) and they know the Russian friendly Ukrainian government was overthrown with help from the US. They also know Russia is very concerned with American activities in Ukraine and a war could easily break out if Russia feels threatened.
Did the US let the USSR keep nuclear warheads in Cuba in the early 1960’s? No, and a war almost broke out because of those warheads and the US is endangering Europe with war with its hostile policies in eastern Europe. If Russia feels it is threatened it could send troops into Ukraine which has been a part of either the USSR and the Russian Empire before that for centuries before becoming an independent country for the first time in 1991.