Vadimir Putin's next legitimate military target is Latvia.
submitted 4 months ago by jerryk from (self.WorldPolitics)
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[–]notafed 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun - 4 months ago (2 children)
If NATO did not stand by its member countries in that event, then NATO would effectively cease to exist the day after. It would be shown to be spineless and worthless. Any protection it provides its members simply by existing would evaporate in a moment.
[–]jerryk[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun - 4 months ago (1 child)
The point is, there are degrees of "standing by its members". You could argue that NATO should immediately launch a thermonuclear first strike on Russia in the event, but, you don't really expect that, do you? What I'm suggesting is that they would do something -- probably send arms, probably refuse to acknowledge Russian territorial gains, but, that's about it. What do you expect, full NATO mobilization and total war over Latvia? Probably not. Bear in mind, in WWII, the British and French did declare war on Nazi Germany when they invaded Poland, but, they didn't actually do much more than that, at all. Perhaps NATO would "declare war" on Russia -- and that's about it. I'm skeptical even of this, however, if Russia's territorial demands were fairly modest and reasonable -- the public wouldn't support it. Why would the general public of Europe and America agree to go to war over a rail corridor through Latvia to Kaliningrad? They wouldn't.
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