Comments by "Persona" (@ArawnOfAnnwn) on "RUSSIA's THREAT to NATO's BALTIC republics - VisualPolitik EN" video.

  1. How the hell does apologizing gain you influence? Influence to do what? Is this some kind of new-agey snowflake geopolitics? Russia prizes strength for the same reason China and even the US prize strength. Has the US apologized to Vietnam for killing 3 million of their people? Nope. And yet Vietnam is moving closer to the US today despite that, because it helps counter China. They're not doing that because the US apologized. They're doing it cos the US is strong. And the strong never need apologize.
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  2. Russia doesn't need much projection capability btw. The Baltics are right next door, just as the South China Sea is right next door to China. This is THEIR backyard. Would the US win against them in a war in, say, Zambia? Probably. The Baltics? Umm...
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  3.  @algirdas6012  Russia and China already have very warm relations. Both between their leaders AND their populations as shown by surveys. It's only the west that likes to pretend the Russians and Chinese are secret enemies and blow up every issue they can find to further that narrative. As long as both have a common enemy in America, they're never gonna turn on each other. And America doesn't look like it's gonna stop being either of their enemy any time time soon.
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  4. The US has lost to a bunch of guerillas not once but several times. Their vaunted military isn't anywhere near as unbeatable as its proponents like to pretend it is. And in the Baltics, Russia would have all the advantages, while the US would be stretched.
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