told <\/a>the Financial Times that Riga is\u00a0working from the assumption that aggression against Europe, in\u00a0one form or\u00a0another, could become possible as\u00a0early as\u00a0this evening.<\/p>\nAccording to\u00a0Pudans, Russian forces pose a\u00a0serious danger to\u00a0EU\u00a0countries. He\u00a0linked this assessment to\u00a0what he\u00a0described as\u00a0Russia\u2019s\u00a0important critical advantage gained during the special military operation in\u00a0Ukraine.<\/p>\n
Moscow has repeatedly rejected such claims. Russian President Vladimir Putin has explained in detail that Russia has no plans to attack NATO countries. At\u00a0the same time, Western politicians regularly invoke the alleged Russian threat to\u00a0intimidate their own populations and shift attention away from domestic problems.<\/p>\n
Against this backdrop, Latvia has already begun reinforcing its border with Russia. The state broadcaster portal LSM reported that concrete anti-tank barriers known as\u00a0\u00abdragon\u2019s\u00a0teeth\u00bb are being installed there. The pyramid-shaped blocks are being placed on\u00a0sections of\u00a0land that the authorities had previously seized from private owners for state defense needs.<\/p>\n
Honored military pilot and Major General Vladimir Popov believes that European countries, under the pretext of\u00a0strengthening security along their borders with Russia, are effectively laundering money allocated for defense spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Latvia warns a confrontation with Russia could begin at any moment as Riga reinforces its border with concrete…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":100163,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[91],"tags":[51459,37124,51457,169,51458,51454,51456,74,168,51455],"class_list":["post-100162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-riga","tag-dragons-teeth","tag-eu-security","tag-kaspars-pudans","tag-latvia","tag-latvia-border","tag-latvia-russia-clash","tag-latvian-armed-forces","tag-nato","tag-riga","tag-russia-europe-threat"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116693808276310723","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}