Comments by "" (@tomk3732) on "Could the EU save the Baltic nations from Russian military?" video.

@Nothing_._Here WTF are you talking about? what illegal bases - Russia has handful of bases overseas - US has almost 200. Again what bases? Where? What invasion of Latvia or Estonia? What for? When? If they wanted to invade they can just walk over. Why would they smuggle arms into the Baltic states and for whom? Only smuggling I see is standard criminal activity. There are tens of 1000s of arms smuggled form US into Canada every year. In 1991 Soviets were more or less disintegrated - you may read on history. This was at their weakest since 1920. There is large population of ethnic Russians in both Latvia and Estonia which both heavily discriminate against these populations. EU sometimes acknowledges that but usually pretends not to see. As long as both do not over do their blatant racism these Russians will not want to rejoin motherland. This is not just Russians - Lithuanians are racist against Poles as well - even through these Poles lived on that land longer then Lithuanians themselves. Problem with the Baltics is not Russians - it is rampant nationalism based on ethnicity.
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Nah, so what they are NATO. US can choose to respond on its time schedule. No one talks about joining Estonia to Russia just say stopping geneocide by Estonian government. US would "react" just slowly enough for Russians to liquidate "undesirable" elements. The cease fire & move back home.
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LOL. Especially Dutch response ;)
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@para-tanker Exactly & you do not want too lose such $.
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@jondoe6926 Russians sure had far less freedom during Stalin and yet they fought rather hard - so you mean freedom made them weaker?
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@SvenTviking France LOL. I think they are still thinking of their glory days of trench warfare against Germans. But forget more recent example of WWII. Sure everyone had at some point in history powerful military. So what. Look at France today.
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@Klliansimabras Problem is nothing is showing French military now is any better then in WWII. On the plus side there seems to be plenty of evidence German military is not as good as the one in WWII. So maybe you have a point - French may not have improved but their rivals went down.
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@Klliansimabras Well... France in 1940 had over 4000 tanks. Almost 2x as many as Germans did. Did France had very poor tanks? Not really. On the flip side... how many tanks did Soviets have in 1941? At least 22000. Yeah, vs less then 4000 German ones. (note not all 22k were on the front at start). The problem was overall training, leadership and in France morale (to be honest Soviets had two settings - Lion and white flag - they either fought till death or folded quick). French were defeated not so much by tanks or aircraft as by political maneuvering and propaganda welfare. In 1939 when their chief allay got attacked France was content to let them be smashed - imagine how things would be different is French had high morale, capable leadership and as their and Polish secret services informed them war was inevitable the prepared for counter. Imagine whole French army, even with their doctrine of tanks as support falling on Germans flank. It never even was envisioned - as there was no will to fight. French were defeated even before first bullet in WWII took flight.
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@Klliansimabras Well, even if you are less skilled you can win - gay men were considered "elite forces" in ancient Greece. So yeah, if your whole force is commandos you stand somewhat better chance of winning.
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Nah, they would just move in temporarily to clean up the place of undesirable elements and move out. Sort of a slap on the face.
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@Nothing_._Here Nothing did happen in 1993 with Baltics. In near by Russia they had a coup.
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@vilzupuupaa4680 Like they were in 1940? LOL!
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Given Polish current leadership I expect Poland to threaten Russia with invasion by 2025 ;) By 2025 Poland's forces set for WWII style combat would be by far and wide strongest in EU. Close to combined strength of France + Germany. Baltics would offer only token resistance I do not expect it to take more then few days to make a narrow corridor. Other than strong Polish reaction I fear Baltics would be gone. Maybe not forever but for a month or two till "agreement" on Russian withdrawal would be reached. I doubt Finland would be stupid enough to go for continuation war - they know how last one ended. Once peace was secured in the Baltics Russia may be left to "deal" with Finland. More likely is Ukraine. Realistically it would be up to US. This is the most realistic scenario of war in EU - Baltic leaders in Estonia and Latvia going full Hitler on Russian population and forcing Putin to respond (as EU is too stupid to do so). In such case outside of Poland do not expect much EU involvement.
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@MrKeyframes US would follow its interests. If it was not in US interest to do so they would not. NATO does not force any obligations on its members. Its quite open. If it is in US business to act, it can act, if its not, it does not. Simple.
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@iljasidlun1952 NATO stands for No Action Talk Only. US action would be limited to demand immediate withdrawal of forces. Given that Russia had say a mission of eliminating hostile government it would comply. Certainly sanctions would be used. Certainly US would start to deploy army to EU. But that would be mostly it. So US would not "ignore" they would simply deal with it. Of course Baltics would be fully pacified.
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