[lolinder]

Thank you. It has been incredibly frustrating to watch the modern appeasement movement repeat the mistakes of the 1930s.

You cannot appease an expansionist power that's intent on restoring the glory of an empire from days gone by (real or imagined).

[mensetmanusman]

Few believe Russia would risk expansion into nato territory.

[tacon]

One report from early in the first Trump administration (possibly apocryphal) was when Trump was being briefed about NATO commitments to defend all member countries. Trump supposedly was surprised that the US was committed to going to war with Russia if they invaded Latvia. The Baltic countries are very exposed and could be reached by land only through a narrow gap with Poland.