If Putin moves Against Estonia...

[Fudbucker]

Russia is coming apart at the seams. Putin's desperate. Estonia's border region has a lot of ethnic Russians. What if there's an "incident"?

Would NATO invoke it's article V defense clause? Would Obama risk going to war with Russia over Estonia? If you were Obama, would you risk it?

I don't know what I would do.

 

[BenBurch]

NATO would have very little choice.

 

[Fudbucker]

NATO would have very little choice.

Was it a bad idea, expanding NATO into the Baltics?

 

[ehcks]

Would Obama risk going to war with Russia over Estonia?

Would Putin risk going to war with essentially the entire western world over Estonia?

 

[timhau]

NATO would have very little choice.

Exactly. That is, unless NATO wants to become a cocktail party instead of a defensive alliance.

Was it a bad idea, expanding NATO into the Baltics?

The Baltic countries wanted in, and I think we now see why.

 

[theprestige]

Would Putin risk going to war with essentially the entire western world over Estonia?

Probably not. The real question is whether there's actually that much risk involved, for Putin.

 

[Nihilianth]

Probably not. The real question is whether there's actually that much risk involved, for Putin.

I would argue that there is great risk involved for Putin.

 

[logger]

If you were Obama, would you risk it?

I don't know what I would do.

lol
Yeesss

 

[logger]

Was it a bad idea, expanding NATO into the Baltics?

No, why do you think it was?

Poor Obama would sure have a tough choice? lol

 

[logger]

Would Putin risk going to war with essentially the entire western world over Estonia?

He's not going to do it, Obama has just about put him into a recession.

I have to give Obama credit on this one. Destroying the ruble and causing an oil price war has worked quite well, now maybe we'll at least see some global temperature rise. lol

 

[Red Baron Farms]

I would argue that there is great risk involved for Putin.

Just being a Russian politician is a great risk. But I am less concerned about Putin as I am the people he might put at risk by his recklessness.

 

[Border Reiver]

It would not be a war to defend Estonia, it would be on to liberate it.

 

[Fudbucker]

Would Putin risk going to war with essentially the entire western world over Estonia?

I would have categorically said no before his little adventures in the Crimea and Ukraine. If Putin thinks Obama would cave, and he could rattle world markets badly, he might see more of an upside than a downside. It would be a huge gamble, but desperate people often do desperate things.

 

[Corsair 115]

It would be a huge gamble, but desperate people often do desperate things.

I'm not sure why we ought to regard Putin as 'desperate'. As I understand it, in spite of the current ruble crisis, he still has an over 80% approval rate from the Russian public. Most politicians would love that level of public approval.

 

[Fudbucker]

I'm not sure why we ought to regard Putin as 'desperate'. As I understand it, in spite of the current ruble crisis, he still has an over 80% approval rate from the Russian public. Most politicians would love that level of public approval.

Maybe he stays popular. Russia is in store for some hard times.

 

[Childlike Empress]

Russia is coming apart at the seams. Putin's desperate. Estonia's border region has a lot of ethnic Russians. What if there's an "incident"?

Would NATO invoke it's article V defense clause? Would Obama risk going to war with Russia over Estonia? If you were Obama, would you risk it?

I don't know what I would do.

Russia isn't coming apart at the seams, Putin isn't desperate, nobody cares about Estonia and you should really try to get better sources of information.

 

[TragicMonkey]

I'm not sure why we ought to regard Putin as 'desperate'. As I understand it, in spite of the current ruble crisis, he still has an over 80% approval rate from the Russian public. Most politicians would love that level of public approval.

It's not the public he needs to worry about, it's his crowd of cronies. The problem with oligarchy is always the other oligarchs.

 

[Fudbucker]

Russia isn't coming apart at the seams, Putin isn't desperate, nobody cares about Estonia and you should really try to get better sources of information.

Russia is in very bad shape.

Who cared about Ukraine, other than Sarah Palin? So what if some Archduke is killed? Kuwait? Never heard of it.

http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/d8bf5266-89cb-11e4-9dbf-00144feabdc0.html#axzz3Mfy967kP

 

[Giz]

I'm not sure why we ought to regard Putin as 'desperate'. As I understand it, in spite of the current ruble crisis, he still has an over 80% approval rate from the Russian public. Most politicians would love that level of public approval.

Well, normally when people say "most politicians would kill for that level of support" it is meant figuratively. With the Crimea, assassinations of critics etc... Putin doesn't seem to be "most" politicians.

 

[Childlike Empress]

LOL. As I hinted at, your sources of information are crap. I advice you to follow the events with what these sources told you in mind. Don't let them get away with it.