re: Russia is starting to speak about Baltic countries as it did about Ukraine

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Putin is not a stupid man, he will not attack a NATO nation.

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Of course he won't. But 'little green men' might while Putin says the whole time they aren't Russian military.

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Putin is not a stupid man, he will not attack a NATO nation.

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He won't have to attack a NATO nation.

All he has to do is wait for some Estonian, Latvian, or Lithuanian "extremists" to attack ethnic Russians in those countries.

Then he sends in troops to protect those ethnic Russians. Of course, he'll have to take control of military, media, and government assets to ensure the success of this defensive operation. Can't allow the possibility that the "extremists" might control them.

The Russification of former Soviet Bloc countries during and after WWII was done specifically so that the above scenario would be a political option down the road.