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The video was made this week. In the scenario that he describes, the Russian objective would be to trigger disunity in NATO in a manner that would lead to its collapse.

In your scenario where either Finland or Poland had to confront Russia on their territory "on their own", NATO would have failed to invoke Article 5, and the Russian objective would already have been achieved.

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Is there a a minimum requirement for NATO members to respond with if a conflict did break out. Could a member send a few hundred soldiers and be deemed to have fulfilled its responsibilities?

It would be a short skirmish considering they have the current shortages of men ,tanks and aircraft,

Nonsense

It is quite unreal that the main reason the Russians can carry on their own invasion...at their own chosen time and place...is because they have begged Iran/NK for weapons and ammo.

 Its equally easy to forget, despite some disappointments, how amazing it is that here we are, nearly 2 years down the line and the Ukrainians are holding firm and causing massive casualties on all things Russian. Imagine it if the Republicans hasn't stalled on support as they have at the moment. The Russians would be in real trouble.

What an opportunity missed to damage the Russian imperialist state.

Finally some movement on the long awaited GLSDB. That's the good news.

On the bad news front, I'm less confident now that the American funding for the border/Ukraine bill will be passed than I used to be. I do still lean on the side of the bill passing but I've become less sure.

Beforehand I thought that Johnson was just a whore who hadn't been paid his price yet in border reforms for the vote to go ahead and it was all a bit of theatre. I hadn't anticipated that the horrible orange c*nt could be pressuring the MAGA republicans to stall the border issue until the election campaigning kicked off. So he could swoop in and save the issue for himself, the last thing Trump wants is to hand Biden a win on the border issue. It's really all up to the other republicans now to pressure Johnson into making the vote. Or potentially Johnson could be outed and the dems could offer any other nominated speaker protection from the hardline MAGA republicans.

The details of the proposed border reforms will be coming out this week supposedly and Johnson hasn't made any signals that he's willing to compromise yet. It'll be a very important week for Ukraine in the US.

I haven't seen the video, but there's no realistic scenario in which any of the Baltic or Nordic countries, or Poland, would be fighting a Russian invasion on their own. It's possible there would be limited aid coming from the US, UK, or say, Spain - and probably nothing at all from the likes of Hungary and Turkey. Russia would still have to fight several countries. All of which are prepared for Russian aggression.

The poles have a specific plan and are working towards that plan ,they want to be the top dog in Europe but they have Openly talked about open conflict with Russia within the next 6-8 years, and they are still Spending on defence heading for 3% of their GDP but they are still in the building phase another few years they could roll to Siberia and back

I'm not sure about the combat experience thing as so much of their combat capable troops seem to be sent on operation suicide or meat grinder.

And the fact that the hardware has been proven to be atrocious

They're going to be pretty good at lobbing missiles/drones at civilian targets at the very least.

A good read on the mobilisation and Reforms they are trying to push through, oddly enough Mobilisation age for males is 27- 60 and currently only 7% of working aged population is actually serving in the military, definitely changes need to be made but they seem to be focusing on people outside of Ukraine, they can't be forced back not will they be deported from EU States which could cause issues with EU support