Putin loses Baltic dominance as Sweden completes ascension to NATO | Dr Jamie Shea
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- Опубликовано: 7 июн 2024
- "It has quite a good, big, implication for NATO's ability to defend Northern Europe."
Putin's Baltic sea grasp and arms manufacturing dominance could be lost as Sweden's military industry joins NATO, Dr Jamie Shea tells Frontline on #timesradio
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Sweden have been neutral since 1814 so it's over 200 years, but having a neighbor as Russia makes you think about tradition.
Ironically, they became neutral as a result of losing a war with Russia and that delivered them 200 years of peace, covering two world wars. Even if NATO membership manages to keep them out of another war, rather than get them into one, I doubt that NATO itself will last another 200 years.
Sweden aren't even neighbours with russia. Sweden were bullied by their masters in the usa to join the cowards in nato.
Opposing Russia is really etched into any neighbouring country, opposing IS the tradition for us. There are obvious reasons for that throughout the history. Its harder to think of neighbours Russia hasn't invaded. :) In the end we have no enemies, Russians have no enemies. Its all state-driven, and state in Russia, is in the hands of one man, who has imagined everybody as enemies and forcing the idea on its people.
The First World War was not triggered by Russia but the Tsar supporting Serbia swung the pendulum irrevocably towards war. That said, the British had no national interest in fighting the war and no significant army to do it. But Britain leaders declared war anyway.
To be a bit zealous to details, Sweden was "alliance independent" and have been so for a while. Our neutrality went out the window the day Russ...USSR invaded Finland 1939. A large part of our weapons, ammunition and equipment was sent to Finland, recruitment "offices" for volunteering to Finland was opened. The foreign minister was had to resign as he pushed to have Sweden to join Finland in their defense.
Also worth mentioning is Sweden actually have occupied Moscow. This was in 160, interesting reading, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_la_Gardie_campaign . Perhaps we should help Russia with internal problems once again?
Dont interrupt your enemy as they continue to make the same mistakes
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Unfortunately, too many of America's allies are making the same mistakes as Russia-overestimating their capabilities while underestimating their opponent's capabilities.
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It sounds like what Napoleon Bonaparte said.
So Russia capture Crimea to have a Black Sea port but in few years they won’t even have a navy left.. pointless
We will see.
The Russian fleet has existed on the Black Sea for more than 250 years
@@user-ov5rv2yw7l How long has the Turkish fleet existed on the Black Sea?
@user-ov5rv2yw7l Kind of irrelevent how long it's been there given that a 1/3 of it has gone 2 years. At the current rate, there'll be nothing left in another 2. Ukraine is doing pretty well.
@@user-ov5rv2yw7land thats 250 years too long! Ukraine is doing God's work
This is so direct!! I could listen to this bloke all day!!
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@@MrZajebali I guess this is your intellectual level? Emojis? No argument, no substance and no fact. Just emojis? That all you can manage?
Its brilliant.
All Russian bots should look into a Russian cruise in the black sea.
Or look at towers and planes in places like new york.
Who knew Russia could get so many submarines so fast
What sunken naval vessels
@@standrewpics special submarine transformation
I still can’t figure out why Putin did this. Even if he’d quickly conquered Ukraine and installed a puppet, Sweden and Finland would have still joined NATO.
@@Justsomeguyyuyu he believes Russia should be the political and cultural center of the world.
He can dream about whatever he wants. But reality is cruel for russians.@@Sevenmountainisevil
All viking families united under NATO 💪
Ukraine Kiev was discovered by Viking Oleg. Ukraine should also be with Viking states
@@ilyanization They will. They will. 🤗🤗🤗
Yes but now we also need to get Viking power, Russia cannot be resisted without a very powerful military.
Why? Russia has no interest in war with anyone who is NOT attacking her.
@@firstnamerequiredlastnameo3473 No one has attacked Russia but Russia has always attacked it's neighbors on a whim through out history.
Our answer to Putin should just be that we have no uninvited troops in Ukraine.
Why are you involved in the regional conflict between two non-NATO neighbors??
Who has attacked you lately?
He is slowly falling on his sword ! Thats the snag with totalitarian regimes you dont get quality people in the places that matter such as Generals and Ships Captains/Admirals all you get is people that tell you everything is great etc...
NATO lakes all round. Putin is such a genius 🙃
NATO caused this war after the FAKE CIA coup in 2014 waken up!
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The strategic genius has not only lost dominance in the Baltic he is on his way to losing dominance in the western Black Sea and eventually losing dominance on all of the Black Sea.
Putin's "strategic genius" has been bluff and bluster, which has served him well in the past, but his bluff has been called, and now he is somewhat in the brown stuff....
NONSENSE Sweden are irrelevant, Putin has NO territorial ambitions outside the Russian regions of Ukraine, SWITCH OFF YOUR MASONIC MEDIA AND GET A CLUE ''Trevor' lol
It's magic, isn't it? As a Latvian, I can't wait to see Putin in handcuffs being lead to prison after a trial in The Hague.
Russia DON'T CARE about such cliches, switch off your Masonic media and get a clue. You are embarrassing.
You know why no comment under your post 😂
Russia never had Baltic Sea dominance. Who controls the straits between Denmark and Sweden has the control of Baltic Sea. Also, Sweden and Finland always had 10x more anti ship missiles compared to Russian navy fleet size. Now that Finland and Sweden brought NATO air dominance to the whole of Baltic Sea region... Russia has nothing but their cargo ship anchors and their unfiltered sewage from St Petersburg.
NATO does NOT have guaranteed air dominance. Russia's air defense missile system are demonstrated stronger and completely integrated with their observation systems.
If Russian forces are so "weak", why is Russia still in Ukraine for over two years?
NATO and Ukraine are too wimpy to push out simple Russians. How embarrassing!
just like they had no artillery shells left and the soldiers were fighting with shovels too right? clowns
Don't underestimate the faeces of St.P-burgians on a Вкусно и Точка-diet!
@@gerwyntiberius1918ahh yes, that go-to shovel-joke about how you can't read 😆
Air dominance 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Now back to reality......
Macron was giving Putin something to think about just as Putin, mentioning nuclear weapons, is constantly giving the west something to think about.
NO Macron was trying hard to make a smokescreen as his own country is in absoloute tatters and gridlocked by millions of Farmers and truckers protesting and closing down Paris.
Putin has threatened with nukes so many times now over the last 2-3 years, I doubt it is taken seriously anymore
The West isn't worrying much about the nuke threat any more. We have nukes, too, and our planes and missiles don't get shot down so easily, and our ships don't sink as easily.
@@tayler2396NAIVE boyish statement, The Russians have Mach 27 hypersonic weapons systems that are total game changers.US Generals have warned that we don't have any defence against
@@tayler2396We have old 1980s US Trident missiles that have failed spectacularly twice over, one last week did a corkscrew return flight like a boomerang nearly sinking the UK Sub, in the real world son.
Excellent interview.
Don’t worry about losing the Baltic Vlad, you still have the Black Sea. Oh, wait a minute.. 😁
Still got the sea of Azov. Well, for boats at least, can't fly over it in safety...
Saab (the car company), no longer exists. And auto manufacturer was spilt from the aircraft manufacturer decades earlier.
European artillery producers are still shipping a large percentage of their production to international buyers, instead of to Ukraine.
Why are the leaders of these nations not stepping in to put a pause on fulfilling orders destined for Asia, Africa and the Middle East?
Money
Yeah, I'd guess profit
Because they are companies. If they were to give away their production the company would go bankrupt. Not harder to fathom than that.
@@balsyprick6764 I guess they wouldn't "give away their production and go bankrupt" - European states would pay for the shells. I guess it's about long time contracts, if they would back out of that they would have to pay contract penalties.
But yes, under the bottom line it is about profit and money, and that democratic states can not strong-arm companies to do according to their bidding, like Putin can do.
Money talks louder than your politics..
He forgot to mention that Sweeden makes ultra silent submarines. Not even us navy could detect them during exercises😊
Yes but they are now going to have nuclear subs.
ahhh yes when us navy task force..lost their carrier ...twice... in exercises...so impressed us navy bought the design...probably to get a counter to it
@@dussel69deboath61USA borrowed the submarine for first one year then extended to two years to study it.
srále mi není jasné, proč tu stále jen o válce, proč mezení přístupu ruska k moři , jeho zničení, atd..? všichni víme, že majdanovci od r. 2014 na svém území začali pronásledovat , okrádat, a i zabíjet rusy, 8 let odstřelovali a ničili jih UA, a že 3,5 milionu lidí muselo utéci do Ruska.
Very very interesting interview❤
Thank you 🙏
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Wow. I wish to hear more from Dr Jamie Shea. He knows his stuff!
Very interesting to listen to this man❤️
Great show!
Individual countries could send their own troops to Ukraine even if they are part of NATO, couldn't they? And they could be deployed to western Ukraine as noncombat forces, maybe as defenders and security forces, which would free up Ukrainian forces to fight the Russians in the east and south.
Yep. Could.
They wouldn’t be able to invoke article 5 but they could on their own dime.
The world is a wonderful place!
Explains Russia's space sabre rattling.
They are getting pushed out of the air and sea domains in Ukraine.
Now just a meat grinding land army really.
Space is the next best thing.
Wrong, gunga din. Russia owns the air over Ukraine and surrounding areas. How many Ukrainian planes do you hear about in the air over the battle lines? Russian air defense integrated with their observation systems is dominant. Able to attack any significant Ukrainian target in less than 10 minutes after sighting and selection.
NATO (USA) organization is still fragmented. Each branch of service plays their own game.
Mr. Shea said "The French has been at the forefront of supporting Ukraine" - that must be referring to verbal support since French support for Ukraine is about the lowest amount EU countries, having spend less than even Hungary. Hopefully France will follow up the flamboyant statements with a serious effort to support Ukraine with weapons and economically.
Chelyabinsk 1995.
Little Igor. "Mommy when I grow up I want to be a sailor".
Momma Olga. "When you grow up you're going to be fish food".
NATO should have ramped up arms production 20 months ago! It was obvious to me so why wasn't it obvious to the pros?
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Times Radio, you fixed the microphones! hurrah! 😅
The initial long intro with the same audio is still super enjoying...
Viking blood aroused was formidable...
Il n'est que raisonnable de laisser Poutine dans l'ignorance quant à la livraison des systèmes d’armes. À cet égard, il peut même être avantageux qu’un appel téléphonique qui n’exclut pas catégoriquement l’utilisation du Taurus ait été intercepté par la Russie. Nous ne serions donc même pas surpris si cet appel téléphonique ait été lancé intentionnellement (d'autant plus que la connexion n'était pas sécurisée).
Il en va de même pour la déclaration d'Emmanuel Macron selon laquelle le déploiement de soldats français en Ukraine ne serait pas absolument exclu.
En fait, l’une des choses les plus stupides qu’un homme politique puisse faire est de claironner publiquement ses options et ses « lignes rouges » à un adversaire. Le maladroit Olaf Scholz le fait encore et encore - et aide ainsi Poutine dans sa planification stratégique.
Contrairement au craintif amateur Scholz, Emmanuel Macron agit avec professionnalisme : il sait qu’un homme politique ne peut exclure aucune option face à un agresseur.
Si quelque chose a le potentiel de conduire à une guerre mondiale, c'est bien l'apaisement (et il est étrange qu'il est nécessaire de rappeler les accords de Munich de 1937, dont l'apaisement a conduit directement dans la Seconde Guerre mondiale ...).
Pour l’Occident il est vital de ne pas se laisser intimider par Poutine. Ou avez-vous jamais entendu parler d’un criminel s’arrêtant devant un faible ?!!
Европейцы теряют рассудок глядя на карту России 😂.
@@user-qj3rk4tu5pMais ils sont rassurés lorsqu’ils lisent des rapports comme celui-ci d’un pilote de ligne :
« Je suis allé en Russie à plusieurs reprises au cours des 35 dernières années en tant que pilote de ligne. J'ai observé que tous les pays du monde ont fait des progrès, comme en témoignent les nouveaux aéroports, les routes, etc., mais l'aéroport de Moscou Domodedovo est resté le même depuis mon premier vol là-bas jusqu'à mon dernier vol, lorsque j'ai pris ma retraite. La route qui relie l’aéroport à la ville est également restée inchangée depuis plus de 30 ans et n’a pas été améliorée. Je sais exactement où est passé tout l'argent.» 😆
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The only mind that is missing in action belongs to Putin. He has literally brought us to the brink of a world war. It was a bad move at the time and it’s only getting worse to continue. 9/10 of the world is against the Russian aggression in Ukraine.
Vous avez raison. La seule négociation que Poutine reconnaît est le recours à la force.
You are right.
The only negotiation which Putin recognises is the application of force.
Russia has never had dominance in the baltics.
Masonic media cliches are 1000 miles away from the real world. Russia have NO TERRITORIAL ambitions, other than the 6 Russian regions of Ukraine
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Not only have submarine fighting off capability’s also builds submarines capable to sneak into even a US Supercarrier defence group unnoticed and take pictures.
For Ivan we have torpedoes instead of film.
Like the Kursk ?
It was noticed.
Aircraft carriers are OBSOLETE romantic WW2 relics, great big sitting ducks in the 21st century with Hyperonic missiles, we have no defence against.
Does The Times not use sub editors anymore? The word for a country joining a bloc of other states is accession not ascension.
Thanks. I just assumed I'd misheard. Apparently I didn't.
Why does Times radio always start the piece halfway into the interviews before beginning properly half a minute later?
No matter what we say TIMES doesn’t listen . They think it’s “cool” I guess but I agree it’s a real nuisance.
About 15 years out of date for Saab car production (unfortunately).
Even 2% of GDP always seemed a very small amount to spend on defence, when seen as the most important role of any country’s government. I remember, on previous occasions, the UK had to take into account the amount they spent on military pensions, to get their headline figure up to 2%. I hope that’s not the case now. As important as military pensions are, launching pensioners over enemy lines, in the heat of battle, probably isn’t going to turn a conflict around. Although they could perhaps slow things down a bit in the enemy’s post office queues.
These Ex NATO generals seems far more on the ball than the present ones.
This is where I have a problem with 2% of GDP. In Australia where I am GDP is $1.5 trillion but tax revenue is $500 billion so 2% of GDP equals 6% of government revenue each year. Our government debt at 5% interest is 10% of tax revenue. All up 16%. In the U.S., government debt interest at 5% is a staggering 40% of the tax take each year. $34 trillion debt/$14 trillion GDP/ $4.5 trillion tax revenue. Two percent of U.S. GDP is $680 billion - they actually spend about $760 billion on defence. When you combine a $760 billion defence spend and $1,700 billion in interest you get $2.46 trillion coming out of a $4.4 trillion tax budget (55%). The U.S. is on a mission to get others to step up because they are going to have to either A cut back on defence spending and or B increase taxes or C reduce interest rates and trash cash and try to inflate the world out of it's/ their debt or D find a way to reduce the cost of living by so much that increased taxes won't be so painful or E which seems to be what is happening make Russia and China weak again. This is why Trump is so aggressive with countries that won't spend 2% of GDP, however, he should look at his own country that has allowed itself to get into so much debt. A debt that has never got smaller no matter which side of politics was in charge. Including his own administration. Russia and China see this debt as the glaring weakness of populist democratic governments and it is. What they don't see though is the wests ability to dump them and make them broke too. Russia is just fossil fuels that are on the way out and most of China's population is still very poor and their cheap labor will soon be worthless once autonomous robots take over factory work. Trump will try to bully everyone else to pay for defence but will he turn the spotlight back on U.S. citizens to pay more tax and reduce government spending. I doubt it. He will most likely just start some sort of brainless civil war .
So they stop flying and stop sailing. Just need to stop them on land now
As Trump called it, a genius move from Putin! /sarc
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Accession ffs.
Exactly! I had to rewind to make sure I didn't hear it wrong.
ikr, a little on the nose with the proselytising
He's wrong in point #2 on hanging on to equipment after the cold war. Sweden did NOT do as the Finns, we scrapped most military capabilities during 1991-2014 (equipment, good and broad conscription with long term reserve plans, basic logistics, most brigades were dismantled and so on)
its the dwindling "Blank Sea Fleet"...
@24:00 There aren't going to be any adults in the room with Ttump.
Exactly. Trump ran those guys off in his last administration and many of those guys publically commented on Trump's unfitness for the Presidency.
Trump would surround himself with loyalists picked for their demonstrated devotion to him personally,due to fitness or competancy.
@@TheLAGopher Take a good look at Biden’s diversity hire administration. Talk about incompetence 😂😂😂
@@liegelord135Example?
Acsension or accession?
Why the preview?
It's The Times. They tend to do their videos as if they were articles. Which is kind of nice if you can't be bothered to watch the whole thing.
@@NBM397 Yeah, it's a taster. It's usally an American habit.
It's a Times radio thing.
it's damn annoying if you ask me
@@larrysteinke1839 If you don't like it then you can always get your content from other sources.
Putin have never had "dominance" in the Baltic sea. However, I believe we now should rename it to "Lake NATO" 🙂
If the Ruskis have proof of NATO troops in Ukraine, revealing this info would be a fantastic self-own. It would be controversial for a while, but as soon as the initial scandal had faded, NATO presence would be normalized.
NONSENSE, they have 1000s of dead bodies of non Ukrainian soldiers, steady for 24 months waken up son.
@@graemes52 Funny that you have so many grammatical errors while pretending to be an anglo.
Then that would make NATO a legal target for attack by Russia. Is that what what you want in your military brilliance?
@@firstnamerequiredlastnameo3473 You imagine that the terror state Russia cares about what’s “legal”?
You aren't wrong, I've put some of his comments into an AI, the analysis suggests he's clearly poorly informed (making claims that are provably false), over confident in his abilities (even when wrong he's mocking or enjoying humiliating people). Lacks self-esteem and is/was a juvenile delinquent (probably a bully). I personally imagine he has a graffiti 'tag', enjoys vandalism and litters, probably grown up as a rebellious child into adulthood feeling nobody is listening to him. He enjoys other's failures, sets a low standard and often fails to achieve it.
Not too good at this navy malarkey are they!
You know. Am I correct in thinking that NATO Could in fact be doing a lot more to assist Ukraine?
Hate the long duplicated introduction. So many complain of this but TIMES drags us along with this stupidity.
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Great that this guy really got Trump right!
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putin has never had baltic "dominance" we've always been here
He's never had it in the first place
Interesting to hear the question about winter warfare. It sounds trivial, but you get one guess why Finnish ships have higher ice breaking classification than 98% of the rest of NATOs warships. A lot of US equipment for land warfare is not very good with winter landscape either. The Bradley famously got stuck in 30 cm of snow when it was tested out for Norway. In Scandinavia, we routinely have up to a meter of snow every winter in places. It's good that the other countries get an opportunity to learn winter warfare at scale.
Poor old Vlad, I bet he can feel that noose tightening around his neck.
You're not in the KGB now Vlad!
0:15 His point is idiotic. Swedish production was available to Ukraine and to NATO members BEFORE Sweden joined as well. The immediate, actual benefit of having Sweden involved, ironically, is that Sweden no longer has to be totally self-reliant on defenses and thus needs LESS defense capability internally, allowing it to donate more. While Sweden was in theory unaligned, it needed to hoard production, so to speak. Now that a huge number of nations are contractually obligated to aid, it could in theory give away up to 100% of its own weapons and short-to-medium term production as well. It won't go that far of course, but I'm just making the point.
Russia is better known for its ability on land, being a land power. The sea was never really its strong suit. If we are to learn anything from history
Russia has a long history of throwing bodies at a problem
History, what have they won ?, if your talking WW2, Germany was fighting the rest of the World on one front, and the Weather defeated them against Russia ( with the Ukraine) any Superpower needs a Navy. Apart from Nuclear they've got ZIP.
And that's still the case. Losing to a country with no navy must hurt. Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha
@@boink800 top marks!
What are you talking about? The toughest men in Stalins Red Army were the Ukrainians. Not the Muscovy worms or the Chukchi inbreeds. It was a Ukrainian who flew the Red Banner over the German Reichstag.
It's accession, not ascension.
Trolls act like Ukraine is on their last legs. Putin cant even get close to Kharkov and its 15 min from their border
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I guess you mean "baltic sea" and not the baltic coutries/ people?
Welcome aboard Sweden. The West may not be perfect but will be a much better friend than the East because we value your sovereignty and will defend your freedom
Sorry but his information about Sweden and its military capabilities is not fully updated. This makes his opinion and analysis less interesting.
Debunk a statement instead of making sweeping accusations.
Out of date but interesting
The U.K. pledged to ramp up defense spending to 2.5% of GDP, but only when economic conditions allow. Meanwhile, the British military has 150 deployable tanks and perhaps a dozen serviceable long-range artillery pieces. Britain last deployable armored division was in the 1991 Gulf War, Ben Wallace, former U.K. Secretary of State for Defence, said recently to Parliament. The British army’s new armored reconnaissance vehicles, called Ajax, show just how long it can take to upgrade a fighting force. In the fall of 2023, a group of army officers watched two Ajax vehicles cruising the muddy plains in southwest England. It was the first time the Ajax participated in a military exercise, 13 years after the army first announced it would purchase them!
Fantasy island. The UK is irrelevant.
Last year's figures were 2.4%. Sure, not 2.5% but hardly that different. It's been a long time since Tanks were relevant in Europe. Even now even in Ukraine they don't seem as useful as missiles, artillery and drones.
@@peter65zzfdfh The point was these promises to spend more even as the Russian threat grows especially for the UK are meaningless in light of the lack of political will to meet them especially in the current economic climate.
Tanks are still very much relevant as the battlefield in Ukraine recreates the stagnant lines of WW1 which led to the creation of the tank. This is why the Ukraines asked for even more Abrams M1's M2 Bradleys, Challengers and Leopard tanks. Even the limited armor enables Ukraine to hold back the Russian meat waves.
Look at the use of armor in the ongoing huge NATO exercises in Sweden, Finland, the Baltic States and Poland.
The point is the UK cannot protect itself in its current depleted
That's *accession to NATO*, not *ascension to NATO*. Sometimes the English on RUclips is is very sloppy.
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Cough cough, there's only two things in naval warfare that's targets and submarines .
why is there any issue with NATO troops in Ukraine... I mean there are half a million Russians in Ukraine and not one of them were invited!
What about Ireland and Austria! Free riding on others defence spending!
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Both nations have modest, but modern defense systems. I guess especially Ireland will ramp up naval presence after several Russian provocations with thinly veiled threats agains pipelines and cables.
Austria, Switzerland and Ireland, the countries of irresponsibility.
Geographically, the three of them automatically have the shadow of the tree (NATO) but don't bother to water it. Don't even show a single sign of responsibility to take care of the tree. And constantly patting their chests, calling themselves good persons with their so-called intermediate status.
Let’s place their countries directly on the border to Russia and look how many days they could keep their neutral tongues.
@@parkerburrus289 So.. if China or Russia invades Mexico, with shores on the Atlantic & Pacific.. should USA & Canada just stand by and say.. OK I guess? Why not Mexico?
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How come the deciduous trees in the window has its leaves, huh if it is winter in England?
He said it's spring in Enland and Belgium, where he was.
There are many shrubs that keep their leaves in Winter/early Spring...laurel for example?
NATO may have seemed antiquated to some; evidently it is not. US military spending is about much more than NATO. Trying to equate is bad math.
March 17th 12:00 you know what to do Russians. We are the people. We have the numbers. We have the power.
Yes Slavs or Slavic
Counting on the last losing President for ANY strategically-important support for NATO in any seriousy tense situation is a sucker bet. Europe should have learned by now from the example of Ukraine the BEST it can hope for from the U. S. is too little, too late.
Russia didn't have Baltic dominance in the first place. It did have Black Sea dominance and in my estimation the fear of losing it was the primary reason for the initial takeover of Crimea in 2014 and the invasion of 2022.
Macron said that French troops in Ukraine is not of the table. That is different from saying that western troops should be fighting in Ukraine. Hus statement is a very good.
Shultz keep telling us and Putin what he will not do. That is not so smart. Why reveal such info ?
You know French have there foreign legion right. Technically if they are send to Ukraine and they are not comsidered either French or NATO troops.
Times Radio lumbering along in the Cold War like sleep-walkers.
That profile pic with that name is less than organic. Your comment is 100% bot farm template.
Nobody cares what Russian likes or not, if there is NATO troops in Ukraine, so what!
॥ Without being able to supply the promised weapons to Western Ukraine.
Talking about going to war with Russia is ridiculous.
Yes, nato's border with Russia is conciderable longer. But a very sizeable porsion of that border is very difficult to attack with heavy equipment. So it isn't as bad as it first looks like. Also, it means Russia feel forced to tie up more forces there, making a bit less available for their terror operations in ukraine, and the more vulnerable parts of the nato borders. Finland and Swedens membership is only a good thing from a military point of view. But I hope Finland prepare real defence lines, which can be completed and activated on short notice.
We have be doing that for past 80 years on defence planing. There is only three or four places that Russia could eaven try to invade and those places are well known and taken in to the considaration.
And Arctic. Russia now is defeated in the Baltic and Arctic.
China has shown the capability to build cities and bridges at a record pace, all the while breaking records in the levels of investment as well. And that's going well, right?
And the award of NATO salesman of the decade goes to..... (drumroll) Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin! Here, have a potato, comrade!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
I heard he gets a set of steak knives. I hope he doesn't cut himself.
clap clap clap Mr Putin
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You are very wrong if you think that Russia lost leadership because of that, they are still light years away from losing it.
Putin is the best NATO recruiter
Pootin can go to Siberia - and stay there. Nobody is missing ...
Not first :(