Originally posted in The Baltic Times Duplication of the Crimean conflict in the Baltic countries is impossible, furthermore, there is no separatist sentiment in the region, Russian Ambassador to Estonia Alexander Petrov believes. “Could such a situation be transplanted to the Baltic region? It seems an entirely unrealistic scenario to…
Meeting with Poland’s Defense Minister Antoni Macierewicz today, Estonian Defense Minister Hannes Hanso suggested the possibility of loosening restrictions on national border crossing by allied units of NATO and speeding up the process, says The Baltic Times. Hanso depicts defense co-operation between Estonia and Poland as very good and increasingly…
A Russian military ships and submarines were seen again near the Latvian border, the country’s National Armed Forces (NAF) said on Sunday. “In the Latvian exclusive economic zone 1o miles off the NAF territory waters, today (on September 3), were identified Russian Navy’s submarines of the Kilo and Finik classes,”…
With the multi-year reductions in the U.S. military budget and the refusal of much of the NATO alliance to contribute the agreed upon percentage of GDP for their own defense, NATO finds itself pathetically unable to handle two geopolitical situations at the same time. Russia has been aggressively probing NATO…
The Baltic states of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania still have fresh memories of being part of the Soviet Union and the oppression that entailed. They see with wide open eyes what is happening in Ukraine, Georgia, and other former Soviet territories and are scared Russia would like to take a…
TASS NATO recently reaffirmed its commitment to defend the Baltic states and other Eastern European countries that were once under the influece, or part of, the Soviet Union. However, a recently released report by the RAND corporation states that with current force structure, NATO forces in the region would be…
Poison Ivy: Some Insights into Lithuania’s Historical Sentiments.