You are delusional.
Putin is deluded too and power-mad.
Like all political chancers he will push and push to see how far he can go.
The Baltic States are in danger.
If NATO respects red lines and Ukraine and Russia coming to a diplomatic, peaceful solution: No way they being threatened.
The only way they could get threatened is, if this conflict gets drawn out, the Selenski regime and the USA stick to their "no compromise, war whatever it costs" mantra and keep on fighting against Russia, without building any diplomatic bridge for the Russians to come to terms. And any bridge must at least give Russia Crimea, guarantee water supply, come up with a fair solution for Donbas (minimum: autonomy) and a neutral Ukrainian status, at least for a blocking period (they wouldn't have been allowed to join in the next years anyway).
If Ukraine accepts that, they are free, they can come closer to the West, and the pro-Russians can join their Russia. All but warmongers should be happy, and this solution could have been achieved nearly a decade ago. But no, Selenski and the USA were on war course, just as Putin.
Therefore if you care about the Ukrainians, if you care about the safety of the Baltic states: Make peace with Russia, don't escalate the war.
The Ukraine, without Crimea and Donbas presumably, would get guarantees from all major powers. It would serve as a buffer and even yet another transgression of Russia would get punished. The Baltics would be completely out of question for Russia and remain such. Russia will be more Eastward oriented and have enought to do to recover and keep the Islamists out of the Caucasus and Central Asia.
The only way the Baltic states get seriously threatened within the next years is because the West escalates and doesn't come to a peaceful solution with Russia. New situation for Ukraine, sanctions lifted, probably in steps, over years, depending on the Russian behaviour as well, but as a road to peace.
Yes with a democratic Russia not with an autocratic Russia in North Korean style. And he is insane because his certainly aims at the Baltics as part of the old sphere of influence....All apologies Riverman....disgusting!
Do you really think that its smart of the Biden administration to seek conflict with Russia? Russia made every attempt to come closer to the West, yet it was always denied, many times by Biden personally. In an absolutely disrespectful and hostile manner, which is something important to stress as well. Russia got, step by step, aliented by the West, and Ukraine was the last, completely absurd straw, which broke the link.
You think it is smart to do that to the Russians? Not just Putin, the Russians?!
Or necessary, in any way?
I don't.
The Americans should have sought closer relationships with Russia, instead of pushing it into Chinas arms. This is one of the most stupid decisions by those old American politicians, those Cold War relics, they did in the last decades, to seek revenge and humiliation of Russia. They are no better than Putin and his KGB agents, because just like with the Ukraines, he made a lot of reasonable offers, it was the USA - not even the West, the USA specificially (!!!) - which blocked it all. Many European states were looking forward, it was the USA which was the bone of contention all the time. By playing out the Eastern European states against Russia, and trying to go from one regime change to another in the former GUS states.
That's gone, and we can happy if it doesn't end in World War III. But if anything, this absolutely stupid, anti-Russian, hateful policy of the old American elites, people like John McCain comes to mind as a particularly aggressive individual which wouldn't have learnt his lesson - not by chance he was a Trump-hater - destroys its own most reasonable strategy. Which is to not have Russia and China against their hegemony. Because whatever people say, Russia is still, militarily, more dangerous than China. China is on the contrary way more economically potent and will transform its technological knowledge, it gained from Western business contacts, into military prowess. But they are not there yet, they need the Russian ally, for its military and ressources.
So again: It was blatantly stupid and arrogant to attack and humiliate the Russians, to block them from a closer alliance with the West, for decades now. That was the USA which did it, this old senatorial and oligarchic elite, which wants to bring Russia down. And first Syria, now Ukraine, is just their playground to try it, at the back of the people there, and by risking World War III.
Its ugly, its irresponsible and its plain stupid at the same time, just covered up by all their usual hypocrisy the media under their control spills over us.
