• Re: Germany responds to Putin with a deployment not seen since World Wa

    From JAB@21:1/5 to [email protected] on Tue Apr 8 21:17:42 2025
    On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 16:31:29 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    5000 German troops are being deployed outside their borders to
    Lithuania

    The Baltics are building a defensive line against Russia. Can they do
    it fast enough?

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania hastily construct 1,000 concrete bunkers
    with anti-tank ditches

    Some 1,000 concrete bunkers with trenches, anti-tank ditches,
    ammunition depots and supply shelters are part of a joint plan to
    fortify 600 miles of the Baltic states' eastern borders

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/07/baltic-secret-defensive-line-keep-russia-out-europe/

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  • From D@21:1/5 to JAB on Sat Apr 12 20:30:44 2025
    On Tue, 8 Apr 2025, JAB wrote:

    On Tue, 8 Apr 2025 16:31:29 -0400, Auric Hellman
    <[email protected]> wrote:

    5000 German troops are being deployed outside their borders to
    Lithuania

    The Baltics are building a defensive line against Russia. Can they do
    it fast enough?

    Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania hastily construct 1,000 concrete bunkers
    with anti-tank ditches

    Some 1,000 concrete bunkers with trenches, anti-tank ditches,
    ammunition depots and supply shelters are part of a joint plan to
    fortify 600 miles of the Baltic states' eastern borders

    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2025/04/07/baltic-secret-defensive-line-keep-russia-out-europe/

    I've heard rumours that the baltics + finland are preparing massive belts
    of mines along the border.

    In and of themselves, there is nothing that the baltics can do to protect themselves. If Nato doesn't want to play there, they are smoked.

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