Two Maps Make A Grim Prediction

 One of the myriad oddities of Europe is that a tiny chunk of Russia lies on the Baltic Sea surrounded by decent countries.

Russia got it from Postsdam.

Yesterday Vlad the Puter declared a major European nation to be not a legitimate nation but also recognized two treasonous enclaves of some kind of rebellion in that legitimate nation to be the world's two newest republics.

Puty is clearly lost in time and space if not completely unhinged.

But Russia has always seen world domination just over the next snow covered pile of dung, so, rather than just passing off Puty's outburst as some echo of the past, it might be better to see it as what it probably is: a blueprint.

All those troops in Belarus (30,000); in Russia on the border of Ukraine (100,000); and in Crimea (20,000); and all those ships in the Black Sea test firing missiles gayly and aimlessly into the stratosphere must be there for a monster pincer maneuver against the "non legitimate nation of Ukraine".  

But what if it's a feint?

What if most of the troops are just drones deployed as a distraction?

What if 30,000 is enough, in a lightning, unexpected blitzkrieg strike to take Latvia and Estonia and create a "corridor of comfort" for the brave Russian patriots heinously trapped in Western Europe?

Look at this annotated map.

The pincer is what everybody expects.

Puty wants something substantially beyond what he can get for this little temper tantrum.

He wants to BREAK NATO and the European Union in one fell swoop.

This map tells that tale: he needs a "corridor" to join the brave Russians in Kaliningrad with the newly incorporated Russian Republic of Belarus, and, by continuity, Mother Russia.

Looks like Latvia and Lithuania are that "corridor".

So let's look at another map.

 

Look north of Poland.

Article Five of the NATO charter says that when Puty creates his "corridor" the world goes up in flames.

Kinda like 1914 all over again.