Russia’s Military Buildup in the Baltic Stokes Invasion Fears

afaik Russia moved a few inches into the Crimean peninsula..

So you don't think that Russia's neighbors should unite in defense against a potentially aggressive neighbor?

You should read Russian news. Every single day, military propaganda in the headlines. Every single day, anti-EU, anti-NATO, anti-US propaganda in the headlines.

Seriously, google a Russian news source. On their page, you'll see tanks and soldiers and fighter jets. And you'll see stories about how the west is evil and how the west is collapsing and hints that Russia needs a military buildup. And you might see a hint that eastern Europe is really Russian property "stolen" from Russia by NATO and that the anti-Russian sentiment is just the locals being "ungrateful" to Russia.

Now look at Google News. How much military do you see? How many stories about Russia? How many supporting military buildup? We care more about the Kardashians than we do about Putin.

This largely one-sided cold war has been going on for more than a decade.

In the last few years, Russia has militarily invaded and annexed a section of a European country without even a pretex of legitimacy.

If I recall correctly, in the last year, the Russian government has said that it does not consider the Baltic counties independance to be legitimate.

Russia currently has troops involved in ongoing conflicts in Ukraine, Transitaria, Armenia, and Georgia.

To be concerned about Russia's intentions and abilities isn't fear mongering - you only have to look at the region in the last five years to see something very real happening.

> What is going on?

Russia is putting war on world? We have biggest war in Europe in the last 25 years at the moment.

"Hybrid" army from Russia side which is so called "rebels" is stronger then army of any country in Europe and is actually killing people, bombing them and threatens everyone who can't protect himself. They have tanks, drones, buks, grads and more.

It's natural to mobilize people and try to protect sovereignty of your country isn't it?

Unfortunately all I can see from west side of globe is "green-peace" and hippie-like talking about peace and "talking" with russia. At the same time russian soldiers are killing hundreds people each day saying "they humiliated russian speaking people".

Wake up. Otherwise you'll experience war one way or another at home. And it is not propaganda. It is reality.

You should watch some Russian TV. They've been preparing their people for a war every since the latter half of Putin's presidency. Have no doubt, it's a crazy world they are living in - basically a state-sponsored death cult.

>In the UK every month or so we are given stories about Russian aggression

There's your answer - you're from the UK, so you've yet to experience its aggression. Other countries in Russia's neighbourhood have experienced it (Georgia, Ukraine, Moldova, pre-1990 Hungary, Czechoslovakia, etc).

You are right, this smells very bad.

It looks like the hate propaganda they had just before the Balkan wars.

Very bad.

All this "news" on HN should be banned along with the users who posted this. Leave the HN alone without your propaganda.

Should we start what US taken on the East and how many countries invaded and annexed?

Maybe you're blind not to see that US makes Cuban crisis but in the whole World scale. And those small countries are just pawns which will be 'taken' in the big game.

The more anti-missile systems they put in the Europe, the less chance they will be hit by nukes, but nobody talks about the fate of those Europe countries.

It's the latest US way of dealing with countries growing better or in the same pace as they. They use the tactic of "color revolutions", it worked in many other countries before, so why not use that until the war happens, yea?

Let's build the TODO list of owning other country:

1) Choose any country you are interested in (not the big ones of course, they can hit you, you don't want that) 2) Send your military advisors and boxes of money to support "opposition" of let's say few thousands people (which is a less than 1% of population) 3) Make them start "peaceful protests" in capital and actively cover all those events in media, showing only one side of "tyrant leader" 4) When legal forces of country will start preventing that, call them tyranny and prevent and use sanctions and fear to prevent or even easier, start bombing them util all loyal forces remain (with NATO forces and US allies) 5) Collect your profits, put your own people in government, collect resources and plant military bases in the region. If non 1% of population starts to protest, just use military and police to make them suffer.

This worked in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Ukraine.

Russia took what it could - it would be stupid not to. Hardly a sign of aggression. More a sign of abysmal western political and military incompetence and lack of purpose / direction.

Putin is lining up untold billions of dollars of military equipment not alongside Russia's border but outside like in Ukraine.

Oh, they've been here the entire time. Some of the first posts were obvious pro-Russian garbage.

Troll army accounts are the ones causing the problem, not the article itself. It happens a lot on these kind of topics.

You can't comment like this here, and HN is no place for political rants and flamewars.

We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12066283 and marked it off-topic.

> Russia has annexed Crimea. ANNEXED!

Afaik, that was a decision of the people who live in Crimea on the referendum. It is like Brexit or referendum in Scotland. For example, now UK leaves EC, so in the same way Crimea has left Ukrain. It is how democracy works.