🇺🇸 🚫🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹 Will NATO counterattack into the Baltics?

Although NATO is well known to have bases and combat groups in the three Baltic countries, the role of these formations as well as the role of the native militaries has often left a questionable taste in the mouth of any observer. With the Latvian military being the greatest example of the point to be made here, the intentions of each Baltic military is not one of pitched battle, but rather a constant withdrawal and disruption. When you, and your allies have doctrine that're essentially just stalling actions betting on the assumed arrival of reinforcements that will help counter attack the enemy and win the day, you'd better have a very good reason for assuming that will be the case. Recently however, some documents that came out of Poland put a massive question mark on this matter.

“The plan for the use of the armed forces, approved by the then head of the Defense Ministry Klich, stipulated that the country’s independent defense would last a maximum of two weeks, and in seven days the enemy would reach the right bank of the Vistula.”

This is a statement made by Minister of Defense Mariusz Błaszczaka concerning Defense Plan 2011, the primary reason for calling into question the reliability of NATO coming to the rescue of the Baltic countries. Although this document is no longer in use, more recent exercises and simulations such as Zima 20 show that regardless of NATO aid for Poland, it's possible for Russia and her allies to arrive at the Vistula within 5 days of an invasion, and battles to save Warsaw to begin. Naturally that makes the resupply, liberation, or reinforcement of the Baltics very difficult if your primary staging ground for that hypothetical assistance is not doing so well.

This, of course, doesn't even account for Latvia's hypothesized scenario for a war between itself and Russia, which alone will make the triggering of Article 5 nearly impossible. We discussed this scenario a bit in a past article and a telegra.ph post as well.

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🇵🇸❌🇮🇱 — 📰 New York Times investigation: A missile fired from Gaza on October 7 hit an Israeli base believed to contain nuclear-capable missiles.

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — 🇮🇱 Israeli Defense Minister: We expect the war to continue at its current intensity for at least another two months

🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — 📰 I24 News: Israel seeks to kill Hamas leaders hiding abroad after war ends - report

➡️ Israeli officials have openly stated that the goal of the ongoing war is elimination of Hamas, and its leaders residing across the Middle East are no exception

➡️ Israel's intelligence services are seeking to kill Hamas leaders around the world after the war ends, Israeli officials told WSJ. The report, published on Thursday, cited Israeli sources claiming that the country has already started the preparation for targeted killings abroad.

➡️ "The question now for Israeli leaders isn't about whether to try to kill Hamas leaders elsewhere in the world, but where—and how, the officials said," claims WSJ.

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — 🇶🇦 Qatari media Al Jazeera on Telegram:

"Urgent | Israeli army spokesman: We are working around the clock to pursue and eliminate Hamas leaders, including Yahya Sinwar‌‌"

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🇮🇱❌🇵🇸 — 🇶🇦 Qatari media Al Jazeera on Telegram:

"Urgent | Israeli army spokesman: We are monitoring and tracking Hamas leaders in Gaza, and our goal is to eliminate every one of them, including Yahya Sinwar.‌‌"

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🇧🇷⚠️🇻🇪🇬🇾 — In a private conversation, Brazil's Minister of Foreign Affairs warns Maduro that the conflict with Guyana could get out of control and generate irreparable consequences for Venezuela.

However, there is no confirmation whether the minister denied Brazil's direct involvement in alleviating the situation.