U.S. Fighters Circle Baltics as Putin Fans Fear of Russia

[mota bhai 2,675]

President Vladimir Putin’s decision to hold snap military drills in the Baltic Sea last week just as he was pouring troops into Ukraine’s Crimean Peninsula sent shock waves through Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, which demanded, and got, military support from the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.

The U.S. deployed six warplanes to Lithuania yesterday to bolster defenses in the Baltics for the first time since they joined the alliance in 2004, expanding the squadron to 10. Another dozen will arrive in Poland on March 10, the country’s Defense Ministry said. About 150,000 soldiers took part in Putin’s drills, including 3,500 from the Baltic Fleet in Kaliningrad, Russia’s exclave between Poland and Lithuania.

“Russia today is dangerous,” Lithuanian President Dalia Grybauskaite told reporters at an emergency meeting of European Union leaders in Brussels. “After Ukraine will be Moldova, and after Moldova will be different countries. They are trying to rewrite the borders after the Second World War in Europe.”

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-03-06/u-s-fighters-circle-baltics-as-putin-fans-fear-of-russia.html

[ready4ONE 5,400]

Seems a bit alarmist of an OP, but Putin is a fairly scary former KGB with an apparent bully complex. Thanks Obama!

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I don't think anyone wants Moldova. They are so broke they make Greece look like Switzerland