• Bassman1805@lemmy.world
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    10 months ago

    Latvia is actually in NATO, not just receiving support from NATO countries. This is meaningless bluster.

    • Mbourgon everywhere@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      And it sounds like there’s no specific person who announced/backed it, so nobody for Russia to attempt to defenestrate or gift with polonium or some other poison.

    • FlowVoid@lemmy.world
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      10 months ago

      Depends. “Retaliation” is not necessarily military. Russia could retaliate by seizing property from Latvians living in Russia, and NATO would not respond.