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this time I agree with Feanor . NATO has taken a commitment that it will defend East.Europe . Speaking of Baltic States we have serious problems with our mini-armys . When countries join NATO their defence spending should theoretically go DOWN , because of ´security umbrella´ , not go UP !
Only Lithuania probably has the WILL to defend it seriously , Est. and Lat. have so many people (i.e. Russians ) of questionable loyalty , and whose conscripts are even less motivated than est-s or lats.-s .
Man we are so far from Finland in our views that it is horrible . They KNOW they could give a serious resistance to anybody except US maybe . THEY have 95% of young men going to Army , it is a thing of honour and their training is quite good . They have very limited resources , but still field the (probably) biggest artillery arm in Europe . They could get in their 5 million population a mobilistation army of 500.000 . And this is already downsized version ! They have turned their country to practicly a hedgehog - small , yet cannot be bitten , unless you want your teeth full of thorn , you cannot sit on it to squash it , unless you want your ass full of same thorns .
Oh rant mode off.
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