"What's the big deal about helicopter carriers?" you might wonder. After all, Russia already has two real aircraft carriers, and a third under construction. The answer may appear in a wiki-leaked assessment of Russia's Baltic fleet written by an intelligence company called Stratfor. Like Ukraine, each of the three Baltic countries — Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia — has a large ethnic-Russian population. NATO, and any number of geopoliticos in the U.S. and Europe, believe that after East Ukraine joins Crimea and northern Georgia in Russia's new empire, Putin plans a pivot to the Baltics. Last September, Russia held an enormous war game along the Latvian and Lithuanian borders. About the same time, Russian spies crossed into Estonia, kidnapped an Estonian intelligence officer, and tossed him in prison. (Where he remains. Free Eston Kohver!)
Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/418470/france-standing-russia-josh-gelernter
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