Comments by "MRA" (@yassassin6425) on "Sky News"
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Yes, in addition to attaches, advisors, consultants and military personnel and trainers. At the same time, Russian proxies were indiscriminately killing in East Ukraine under the guise of separatists. It was a Russian Buk missile that downed MH17. Once the Ukrainian government is toppled, this then comes down to his ambitions beyond Ukraine. The catastrophic escalation will come from encroachment into the Baltic, because once the government in Kiev is overthrown - all eyes will be due north...and that's NATO soil.
Without their NATO membership, gained in 2004, the Baltic nations would be in the so called grey zone whereby Putin might well have be immediately eyeing them as a potential next meal - after devouring Moldova and Belarus. In Russia’s eyes, a grey zone does not mean neutrality between East and West; it means Kremlin rule.
While Europe and the eyes of the world were focused on Putin’s ambitions in Ukraine, the Russian leader has silently annexed Belarus. Lukashenko has always been completely dependent on Putin for his political survival. That new Russian military presence in Belarus isolates Lithuania and the two other Baltic states from the rest of Western Europe. The Baltic states fear encirclement., Strategically only the Suwalki Gap, which is a mere 60 mile frontier with Poland, gives Lithuania an outlet to other NATO member states, a stretch that could be easily cut off by Russian troops in the event of conflict.
Chillingly, on the Belarusian border with Lithuania is a reminder...a memorial to seven unarmed Lithuanian border guards who were cold bloodedly shot in the head, executed by Soviet special forces in1991, as Moscow tried to crush Lithuanian efforts to protect their newly liberated borders. Russian troops are now deployed on that very border and Lithuanian's do not believe that they will withdraw once the occupation of Ukraine is complete. Precisely why Lithuanians have been expressing their fears to the rest of the world that in Putin's crusade to restore Russia's 'greatness' is no longer a 'grey' area.
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