MOSCOW CREATING MILITARY UNITS IT WOULD NEED TO INVADE BALTIC COUNTRIES, SHTEPA SAYS
BY PAUL GOBLE
MAY 31, 2016
It is always risky to derive intentions from capacities, but Moscow’s moves to create new military units opposite the Baltic states suggests that the Kremlin now has the capacity to invade Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, something that seems absurd to the West but may not to those who live in Vladimir Putin’s “alternate reality.”
In a commentary in today’s “Postimees,” Vadim Shtepa, a Karelian regionalist now living in exile in Estonia, says that 20 years ago it would have appeared ridiculous to talk about …read more