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Wicked Blue

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7. The Baltic states can and do have NATO troops.

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Sat Feb 19, 2022, 08:41 PM

Feb 2022

I can't understand why you say they shouldn't.

The people in these nations are not Russians and they are sick of Russian aggression. Centuries of it.

Nations join NATO for protection against Russia. Russia has no right to tell other nations what to do.

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