[The Guardian] Prepare a swift response to Russia invading Ukraine, Latvia tells west – Nato not sending a clear signal would mean ‘glue that keeps us together’ has failed, says foreign minister
[The Guardian] Prepare a swift response to Russia invading Ukraine, Latvia tells west – Nato not sending a clear signal would mean ‘glue that keeps us together’ has failed, says foreign minister
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My feeling is that if Russia does try and take all or a chunk of Ukraine they will choke on it.
Putin shits his pants after this tough talk coming from Latvia.
>A swift reprisal package against Russia – including US troops and Patriot missiles stationed in the Baltics,
There was a Guardian article that mentioned deployments to Eastern Europe, though I don’t believe that specific countries were mentioned and Patriots were not in the article. I’d assume that the Baltics would be among the countries involved, though. I haven’t dug up the original statement.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/dec/06/us-says-it-will-send-troops-to-eastern-europe-if-russia-invades-ukraine
> the cutting off of Russia from the Swift banking payments system
That was listed as a possible component of a response.
>and reinstated sanctions on the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline
I’m assuming that this refers to sanctions on German companies, not just Russian, as I believe that the latter remain in place. That I haven’t seen.
Hate to spoil it for him but if the Latvian FM believes that the “glue that keeps us together” is NATO then he’s obviously betting on the wrong glue.