The Baltic states (catch all)

[OUTLAW 09]

This is just silly. Since when has Putin decided that NATO is fair game? Neither Georgia, Moldova, Ukraine or Syria are NATO members. The Suwalki Gap would only be important if Russia and NATO went to war: not before.

I think if one reads the article carefully they were writing it from the Russian non linear perspective...meaning playing the ethnic minority card much as Russian plays the "protect the Russian speakers" card initially if one remembers in both Crimea and Donbass....