NATO forces deployed to Latvia amid fears of Russian aggression - BBC News

[Warpy]

4. Here are a couple of articles some might have missed

First, I don't think Russia gives a hoot about Latvia, per se, but this is competition they don't want: https://tankterminals.com/news/latvia-builds-new-lng-terminal/ The plan is to supply the Baltic states, Finland, Poland, and part of Germany. Russia can't do LNG, they do overland pipelines.

Latvia, which is about 25% ethnic Russian, has told its citizens the time has come to choose: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-62592714 My guess is that relatively few of them will want to live under Putin's boot.

So this is coming as no surprise to international news junkies.