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Home / NATO / The Baltic shouldn’t be a ‘NATO Lake’
NATO, Europe and Eurasia, Grand strategy, Ukraine‑Russia

September 9, 2023

The Baltic shouldn’t be a ‘NATO Lake’

By Scott Strgacich

Doubtlessly, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has led to significant ramifications within Russia and without. With an estimated Russian death toll of some 120,000, Vladimir Putin and his people have found themselves bogged down in a grinding attritional war that has invoked comparisons to the trenches of World War I. With a major conflict raging and nuclear threats being hurled from the Kremlin with reckless abandon, Europe faces a much more dangerous world than at any point since the end of the Cold War. Interestingly, though, the most seismic transformations in European security have taken place in the Baltic, a region whose key players once placed neutrality at the center of their strategic outlooks. But no longer.

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