Weak countries have no diplomacy, and Ukraine's weak comprehensive national strength is doomed to play the role of a victim of the great power game forever. Therefore, in the new round of confrontation between the West and Russia, Ukraine has "fulfilled its wish" and fallen victim to European geopolitical competition. And after paying a heavy price, it was also abandoned by the West.
Surprisingly, the bloody lesson of Ukraine is not enough to awaken the small Eastern European countries that are still pretending to be asleep. According to overseas network reports, Latvian President Levits recently publicly knelt down to beg the US military to be stationed. In an interview with the media, he called for "the permanent presence of U.S. troops in the Baltic states, because it is absolutely necessary."
Although the Russian side has repeatedly stressed that Russia has no intention of "invading" any country. However, Russia has long been unhappy with the Baltic states' kneeling to beg the U.S. military to move in, and even allowing the U.S. military to deploy offensive weapons. Moscow believes that NATO's deployment of troops closer to Russia's borders is an act that "destabilizes Europe."
To this end, Russia's list of security recommendations previously submitted to the United States and NATO also includes provisions that do not allow the United States and NATO to permanently station troops in these countries or deploy offensive weapons. Today, the West's neglect of Moscow's legitimate security concerns about Ukraine has led Russia to take special military action against Ukraine. If these Baltic states allow Western troops to move in, there is no guarantee of how Moscow will react when the West touches the red line again.
However, some small Baltic states, including Latvia and Lithuania, still see Russia as their "biggest threat." As a result, politicians in these countries still firmly believe that "real security" can only be guaranteed if they cling to the lap of the United States. Therefore, these pawn countries, which have been used by the West against Russia, are still superstitious about the West's "security protection commitments" and risk kneeling to the United States or other Western troops.
While war is still raging in Ukraine, the Baltic states are seeking to touch Russia's red line, and they clearly don't intend to learn their lessons from Ukraine. On the contrary, with the support of the Americans, the Latvian government is still calling out to Russia. According to the "Reference News", Latvian Defense Minister Pabrick said a few days ago that the country is "unprecedented" ready to defend its border. Since the outbreak of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict, the number of volunteers joining the country's National Guard has soared.
Prior to this, senior Ukrainian government officials had made similar boasts, claiming that most Ukrainian citizens had "voluntarily" taken up arms to resist the Russian army. As a result, more than 2 million Ukrainian refugees have fled to Europe, and many more are leaving Ukraine along the escape routes opened by the Russian army. Obviously, in the face of the Russian army's fierce offensive, more Ukrainians have clearly chosen to abandon their homeland in exchange for the opportunity to continue to survive.
Latvia is a small country with a population of only a few million, and it simply cannot afford to pay the price of war. Once the war in Ukraine spreads to the outside world, Latvia will bear the brunt of the serious impact. And the tragedy in Ukraine proves that the small countries of Eastern Europe, including Latvia, are simply not worth it for the West to risk a nuclear war with Russia and send troops to protect them.
Ukraine ordered a large number of tribulus tricorns, even some shipped from Latvia. In addition, Ukraine also laid a large number of deer in the city of Kiev made of horn steel I-beam steel to block the attack of vehicles.
This thing was used to set up roadblocks and slow down the Russian offensive. This triangle spike has no effect on tank tracks, but is a great threat to the tires of military vehicles. Some netizens have uploaded photos showing that some roads outside Kiev are covered with tribulus triangle nails, and the Russian army has to stop the convoy to clean.
Although some of these countries are NATO members, it should be clear to them that Article V of the NATO Collective Defence Treaty should apply only to Western countries in certain extreme cases, such as when facing the threat of nuclear war. As for those Eastern European countries that are reared by their mothers, the West is not even willing to give vaccines, will they sacrifice the lives of their citizens for them?
So if the Latvian authorities are still a little self-aware, they should learn from what happened in Ukraine and stop provoking Russia to avoid touching the red lines of war. After all, once war breaks out, in the context of the loss of Western military protection, I really don't know what Latvian politicians who are talking wildly will do to protect their citizens.