The Ukraine war won’t end until NATO withdraws troops from the Baltics, a top Russian official has warned.
Sergei Ryabkov, Russia’s deputy foreign minister responsible for U.S. relations, nonproliferation and arms control, made the remarks in an interview with state-run news agency Tass.
Ryabkov’s comments mark a shift in the Kremlin’s position. He 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 the Baltics would help bring an end to the war.
Ah yes “NATO pls if you’ll just surrender and go away, we pinky-promise not be bad anymore”
With Operation Spider’s Web, (and Russia trying to launch massive counterattacks against civilian populations and still only managing to kill only two people) is showing that Russia might not have as strong of a position as they think they do.
Sorry I don’t believe that would change a damn thing. A little late now…
So he can invade them too? No thanks
Russia doesn’t get to dictate who other sovereign nations choose to associate with.
NATO can’t pull out of the baltics. NATO isn’t in the baltics. The baltics are NATO.
“Moscow should pull out of Russia” is a equally nonsensical statement.
The only good answer to that:
“No, that won’t happen. So I guess we’re in this for another year. Here’s the list of wapons that we will deliver to Ukraine, as well as spare parts and ammo that go with them. And here’s the list of new sanctions we’ll apply against Russia. See you next year, except if you have a change of heart”.
But that’s not going to happen…
Yep. He’s setting a demand that he knows will NEVER be fulfilled so he can justify continuing. So he needs to feel the consequences
Baltics need to take Kaliningrad, de-nazify it and deshitify it.
Please don’t do that. Just work on sanctions sidesteps support Ukraine and wait for Putin’s bad decisions to catch with him.
Putin announcing his next invasion plans once he fails totally in Ukraine.
That was my escape plan from the US. Now what?
Russia couldn’t pull out of a driveway without killing a million of its own people.
Nazi state is nazing.
More news at 11.
The Baltics are part of NATO because they didn’t want to be part of the failed Soviet Union or the modern Russian Federation. And with Russia invading Ukraine, twice now, it isn’t very hard to see why.
Get fucked Russia.
The Baltics weren’t voluntarily part of Soviet Union. They were occupied. So after they regained independence, obviously they joined NATO to get security from Russia occupying again.
NATO should say they promise not to once Russia hands over its nuclear weapons. You know, like Ukraine did. Use the exact same paperwork that Ukraine signed in 1994 (NPT), with the word Ukraine taped over so it’s super obvious.
Hey Trump, this has been a real long 24 hours…
“If you won’t let us have Ukraine, let us have the Baltic states instead! 😡😭”
Who said “instead”? Putin wants all. And NATO has serious problems with articulating “No”.
unlike ukraine the baltics are in the EU, they have choosen to, taking this to the baltics is escalating it further, NATO cant withdraw from baltics, the baltics are part of EU thus NATO
NATO has nothing to do with being in the European Union, not every E.U. country is in NATO and vice versa. NATO is an alliance, which you must apply for, separately from the E.U.
Given the EU has a mutual defence agreement that I understood to be stronger than NATOs. An attack on the Baltic states would be an attack on NATO. Even if they were not in it.
Yes, it’s the Treaty of Lisbon. The difference is still important to make, not only for educational purposes, but because it does affect which countries would be required to aid depending on who is attacked. Not to mention USA/Canada who are very much a part of NATO and not the E.U.
Or the war will continue until the Russian people deliver Putin’s head on a spike. Assuming there’s much left of the head after the 30th-floor defenstration.
