http://theweek.com/article/index/258840/the-tiny-estonian-town-that-could-spell-the-end-of-nato
Having demonstrated to the Ukrainians with his Crimean
excursion<https://theconversation.com/now-crimeas-in-the-bag-where-next-for-putin-and-russia-24521>the
emptiness of Western guarantees in the Budapest memorandum, Putin can
now credibly demand that Ukraine either accept its status as a Russian
vassal or cede more territory -- starting with the city of Donetsk in
eastern Ukraine, which has a slight Russian majority (he can also exert
pressure from Moldova's breakaway region, Transnistria, on Ukraine's
western flank, which has operated as a Russian colony for the past 20
years).
And if the assurances made to Ukraine only 20 years ago can so easily be
exposed as empty posturing, how soon before Putin turns his attention to
the Baltic and exposes the assurances made during NATO's expansion there in
2004 as little more than an elaborate bluff? It may already be too late to
save NATO -- and the small Estonian city of
Narva<http://www.themoscowtimes.com/beyond_moscow/narva.html>(population
64,667) is where it might well be buried.
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