Russia’s Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov told state news agency TASS recently that, to achieve peace, NATO must “withdraw” from the Baltic states.
Russian officials have made plenty of threats over the years. If it is more than just rhetoric, and we take the comment at face value, it would indicate that Russia may indeed be plotting aggression against Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the not-too-distant future.
According to Newsweek on June 9, “Ryabkov’s comments “suggested that the conflict’s roots lie not only in Ukraine itself but in NATO’s eastward expansion. According to Ryabkov, the withdrawal of NATO forces from Eastern Europe would help bring an end to the war.
Balderdash.
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