An interesting twist Ron. Estonia certainly is not pretending and I'm thinking they have all bets hinged on NATO. The F-16s cover the Baltic airspace is great, but are they actually here to do anything?

Chancellor Merkel has most of us puzzled these days, and the Nordstream pipeline is now back on track. She came down hard following Georgia, but it didn't take long to fizzle out with subsequent meetings in Moscow.

Hmmm, is there a plan to bail out Germany if Russia shuts the gas off

Quote Originally Posted by Ron Humphrey View Post
Does this mean that since it's not important enough to at least pretend that NATO might actually live up to commitments in case of an attack on these countries, that we can go ahead and throw away any plans that have been developed in helping Germany should the Russians decide to pressure(blackmail) them the same way they have others(Restricting resources upon which they depend)?

I think maybe we need to have a worldwide rerelease of the Three Musketeers
(pick your favorite version)

All for One and One for all!
or maybe not