The Baltic Is Not the Balkans, But Anxiety Grows

... point of view all such comparisons and analogies are very conditional), then we could be talking about the situation in Central Europe in the 1950s–1980s, where two military-political blocs directly confronted each other, without any buffer states or neutral zones. Currently, all the countries of the Baltic Sea region except Russia are members of the EU and NATO, but this does not mean that the situation within them is static. Moreover, we can speak with a high degree of certainty about some shifts. First of all, we are talking about US policy under ...