Latvian army called the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic

The Latvian army was called the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic states and was accused of inability to defend the territory of its own republic. This statement was made by the former commander of the Estonian Defense Forces Ants Laaneots on the LTV7 television channel.

According to Laaneots, the professional army of Latvia is too small and the Latvian government spends too much money on the maintenance of “six thousand professional military men”. He believes that the six thousandth army, even with the support of Latvian volunteer forces, is not able to cope with the protection of its own territory from its "eastern neighbor." This situation is especially dangerous because "Russia has begun rearmament and is obviously preparing for some kind of aggression."

Six thousand soldiers in matters of Latvian defense will not solve anything. Even if you add 8 or 11 of thousands of volunteers to them, it still does not solve anything

- he said.

An Estonian politician advised Latvia to change the army, restoring universal military duty and adding military service to the contract, citing the Estonian army as an example. He noted that there are about 70 thousand people in the reserve of the Estonian army and another 26 thousand serve in voluntary armed organizations.

Frankly, Estonia and Lithuania consider Latvia the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic countries

- he concluded.

Comments

[Alexander Petrov1]

And I thought that Latvia was a superpower with nuclear weapons.

[Same lech]

And I thought that Latvia was a superpower with nuclear weapons.

They consider themselves to be the forefront in containing Russia ... like Poland ... well, I don’t know ... there will be no line there after a missile launch from a missile defense ... there will be nothing at all.

[Spartanez300]

In the Baltic countries, it makes no sense at all to maintain an army, since they are like sprats against sharks against Russia, and there are no more opponents as such.

[cniza]

Normal countries of their caliber, such as Andora, do so, why the army, if it does not stop anyone, they live in friendship with their neighbors, only the police have a place to be.

[L-39NG]

And for what, then, the army in Switzerland? And there was not Hitler, and not others did not dare to climb

[Alexander Petrov1]

Because this Switzerland kept the money of these rapists and kept silent in the tube ...

[Leeds]

"Russia has begun rearmament and is obviously preparing for some kind of aggression."

To NATO aggression. The untrained will be "democratized."

[Moore]

Andorra was smart enough to blame its neighbors (France, Spain) and not climb like NATO and Luxembourg into NATO. And now they would also listen to the whining about the fact that you need to buy one Abrams and a couple of Javelins.

[Grits]

Quote: cniza

Normal countries of their caliber, such as Andora, do so, why the army, if it does not stop anyone, they live in friendship with their neighbors, only the police have a place to be.

The Baltic states cannot live in friendship with their neighbors in any way - they will cease to love, praise, cherish and feed them.

[Andrey Chistyakov]

Quote: Alexander Petrov1

And I thought that Latvia was a superpower with nuclear weapons.

Not at all. Estonia will "save" Latvia ... They would not be "late" if only ...

[210ox]

Both those and other main candidates for slaughter. What is the weak link?

[iConst]

Quote: 210ox

former commander of the Estonian defense forces

Information flashed somewhere that these "tigers" only needed a couple of weeks to restrain the bear, and then the cavalry would arrive in time.

But the kid on the photo is so bizarre ... oops!

[Grits]

Quote: iConst

But the kid on the photo is so bizarre ... oops!

And then! All the same, they gave me a beautiful bourgeois machine gun. Not like this boring soviet "Kalash". Envy, quilted jackets.

[tracer]

This beautiful sample of small arms is nothing more than the same German-made rifle the rigidity of the plastic from which it is made "floats" when fired in bursts. And she begins to throw shots mercilessly.

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: iConst

Somewhere information flashed that these "tigers" only needed to restrain the bear for a couple of weeks, and then ...

This is probably such a pervertedly veiled way to motivate them - you hold on, hold on ..., we will never forget about you .... because Nata knows who is standing opposite you ....
PS Specifically, in Latvia there was one sensible unit - special forces, because it was created by a former officer of the 'Kabul company', a man respected among his own. But it was a long time ago, and "did not go to court" - thank God patriots got rid of him

[Russobel]

Far to Tallinn?
Already far away ...

[Samaritan]

Well, judging by talking only about infantry and soldiers: they are still preparing for the First World War ...

[Alexander Petrov1]

It’s not they who were running around with drone machine guns in exercises?

[bobba94]

There is not only infantry, there is aviation available ..... 2 Mi-2 helicopters, 2 Mi-17 helicopters and 4 An-2 aircraft.

[Alexander Petrov1]

Duck they are needed in Europe either for brothels or for plumbers ...

[Samaritan]

Quote: Samaritan

Well, judging by talking only about infantry and soldiers: they are still preparing for the First World War ...

THEIR Air Force: AN-2 - 2 pcs. LET L-410UVP - 1 pc. and 15 helicopters

[askort154]

Samaritan.... THEIR Air Force: AN-2 - 2 pcs. LET L-410UVP - 1 pc. and 15 helicopters

You did not take into account a few more planes that they carried in their hands at their military parade, on the anniversary of the liberation from the "Soviet occupation".
Unfortunately, the type of aircraft was not familiar to me.
Apparently this is already the 7th generation.

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: askort154

Samaritan.... THEIR Air Force: AN-2 - 2 pcs. LET L-410UVP - 1 pc. and 15 helicopters You have not taken into account yet ...

... how many pilots are there and the level of their training ... suddenly gets sick, well, so as not to waste resources even in vain.

[YOUR]

You shouldn’t be so. A very powerful army, they even have a tank, they leased it. And a caterpillar all-terrain vehicle.

[RUSS]

It is clear to everyone that there are no and will not be combat-ready armies in the Baltic countries, they are simply not needed there; for NATO, the Baltic countries are interesting only in terms of territories.

[Aerodrome]

,

Estonia and Lithuania consider Latvia the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic countries

Well, I don’t know ... they scare me ...

[Pete mitchell]

Do not mind:

Quote: RUSS

for NATO, the Baltic countries are interesting only in terms of territories ...

... to host an airspace surveillance system, aka BaltNet: in the case of a Russian chipper, it will have to be 'demolished'. When the signal from the Baltic states ceases to enter the air defense system of Western Europe - they will simply turn on the stopwatch and begin to wait - when it arrives ...
All other legends about Baltic army - this is from the evil one ....

[Bykov.]

Quote: Alexander Petrov1

And I thought that Latvia was a superpower with nuclear weapons.

Well, no such power as the other two Baltic extinctions.

[Andrei Nikolaevich]

Monya, these two poor district centers, called themselves - ,, the state ,,?!

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: Andrey Nikolaevich

Monya, these two poor district centers, called themselves - ,, the state ,,?!

Have you been in the Baltic countries for a long time?

[LiSiCyn]

Aron, have you been for a long time? And where ?
At the expense of Lithuania, I can discuss with you.

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: LiSiCyn

Aron, have you been for a long time? And where ?
At the expense of Lithuania, I can discuss with you.

Three years ago. Lithuania and Latvia. Vilnius Trakai. Riga-Jurmala. And just ride through the woods. That's what it doesn't smell like, it's poverty.

[olegactor]

Three years ago. Lithuania and Latvia. Vilnius Trakai. Riga-Jurmala. And just ride through the woods. That's what it doesn't smell like, it's poverty.

that's just no fairy tales ... especially about Vilnius and surroundings .... it definitely doesn’t smell of wealth there

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: olegactor

Three years ago. Lithuania and Latvia. Vilnius Trakai. Riga-Jurmala. And just ride through the woods. That's what it doesn't smell like, it's poverty.

that's just no fairy tales ... especially about Vilnius and surroundings .... it definitely doesn’t smell of wealth there

Compared to Moscow, it doesn't smell. But if you compare with Volgograd and Rostov, where I was this summer, especially if you drive 5 km from the city center, then ...

[Amateur]

But if you compare with Volgograd and Rostov, where I was this summer, especially if you drive 5 km from the city center, then ...

And if you compare with the kibbutz?

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: Amateur

But if you compare with Volgograd and Rostov, where I was this summer, especially if you drive 5 km from the city center, then ...

And if you compare with the kibbutz?

It depends on which one.

[Amateur]

Well, you found a hole in 5 km. from Volgograd. You can search well with Tel Aviv or Hebron.

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: Amateur

Well, you found a hole in 5 km. from Volgograd. You can search well with Tel Aviv or Hebron.

There you will definitely not find a poor kibbutz. But in general, I didn’t even write 5km from Volgograd, but 5km from the center. You will be in Volgograd, take a trip to the Kirovsky district or Traktorozavodskaya.

[Amateur]

"The pig will find dirt anyway"
Russian folk proverb

[olegactor]

Now if you compare with Volgograd and Rostov,

And about Rostov, too, nonsense .... I myself am from the Kuban .. and we are no worse and even better than the labuses

[vadson]

why are they washing toilets in England?

[vadson]

yes, the joke remembered who the last one flies off let him turn off the lights at the airport.

[Aaron Zawi]

Quote: vadson

why are they washing toilets in England?

Probably because those who wash have this opportunity. What do you think, and those who receive a salary in Russia up to 30 thousand rubles would refuse to go to England for this not prestigious job? By the way, the Balts there not only wash the toilets. After graduation, many young people work in European concerns.

[LiSiCyn]

Key phrase ...

Quote: Aron Zaavi

After graduation, many young people work in European concerns.

If still

Quote: Aron Zaavi

Three years ago.

, You could see children on the street, now it’s less and less. My aunt lives in Šiauliai. I, as if in the know.
And the picture that you saw is the legacy of the "fat" 90s and early 00s. But after the transition to the euro and the termination of EU subsidies, the situation changes dramatically. So, come back in 5 years. And preferably not in Vilnius and its surroundings.

[Catfish]

An acquaintance of mine in truckers "serves" and until recently drove trucks to Lithuania. He said that on the streets of Vilnius you will hear Russian speech almost more often than Lithuanian. And young people flee from there to the west, because there are no prospects in their homeland ..

[Aerodrome]

Quote: Aron Zaavi

. Riga-Jurmala. And just ride through the woods. That's what it doesn't smell like, it's poverty.

Jurmala-stinks and does not smell! look at what the "sanatoriums" have become ...

[bobba94]

The population of the EU is approximately 500 million. The total population of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania does not reach even 3 million. They do not smell of poverty. It’s like a proverb, with the world on a string - the Baltic states shirt.

[rocket757]

And there is a strong link ??? surprised ...

[Thunderbolt]

accused of failure to protect the territory of their own republic. This statement was made by the former commander of the Estonian defense forces.

And, Estonians mean able to protect with their own hands. This is a storyteller)))

[Spartanez300]

According to official statistics, the Estonian army has 6 troops in the regular forces and 400 in the Defense League.
The Estonian official has nothing to boast about.

[knn54]

The Estonian "drives" ...

[Mouse]

Quote: knn54

The Estonian "drives" ...

already a joke

[Russia]

"The Latvian army was called the weakest link"

If the weak link of the chain, then do not ring for sure, like their neighbors. Well, if they rustle, then they scratch each their own, individually.

[Mouse]

I remember such a transfer ... there was some kind of screaming-: You are the weak link !!!! just horror as she lowered them ....
R'RёS,R ° F "RёR№

[Pete mitchell]

Quote: Mouse

Quote: knn54

The Estonian "drives" ...

already a joke

he doesn’t “drive”, he frankly is “stupid”. Such big and important guy, and didn’t understand why they dragged them into this NATO harlot. Tovarischi balts, but you are not interested in anyone: you are not a decent market; prospects with gulkin litter; those working in the west will never return; now the subsidies will end along with transit, and even there will be nothing to steal. Pink glasses it's time to shoot - you were made early warning system for the safety of old Europe, aka 'sheep for the slaughter', that's all, the latter turns off the light ....

[Mouse]

Quote: Pete Mitchell

and I didn’t understand why they dragged them into this NATO harlot

everything is just to the peak of Russia ... tramp

[gx200gx]

_ Six thousand soldiers in matters of defense of Latvia will not solve anything. Even if you add 8 or 11 thousand volunteers to them, it still doesn’t solve anything [quote] [/ quote] -there at least put everyone under arms, it won’t help, like small children ...

[cniza]

Frankly, Estonia and Lithuania consider Latvia the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic countries

And what does Poland think in relation to you and further on in increasing ...

[Mouse]

Quote: cniza

and further ascending ...

somehow increasing, it is a progression ... geometric, arithmetic, infinite ...
such a suspicion that they have everything in the compartment ...

[cniza]

Not well, higher mathematics is an exact science, and they have a plumbing progression.

[Mouse]

survived the sewage collapse? let them get ready for the next .... NATO members piss and, excuse me, poop-they will not stop ... physiology ....

[Alien From]

All sprat republics, would rather think about friendship with their eastern neighbor, you look and life would be better, but no, religion doesn’t allow, and a striped hand to the throat is selected))) in vain they will exchange them for ....

[alean245]

Latvian army called the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic

[rotmistr60]

Frankly, Estonia and Lithuania consider Latvia the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic countries

I don’t even know to laugh or not to react to cheeks puffing out with limitrophes. Estonia and Lithuania are trying to lower Latvia below the plinth, under which they are themselves. What is this if not an attempt to curry favor at least a little, so that the owner loudly called his "beloved wife" in this region. On a small territory, three Russophobic states are competing against who has a stronger army and who can resist the Russians. Isn't it funny?

[cost]

According to Laaneots, the professional army of Latvia is too small

as comrade Bolivar said - "according to Juan and sombrero"
But seriously, Latvia is enough and such - still no one is going to attack it

[The leader of the Redskins]

It is foolish to compare the armies and military potentials of small countries and giants ... And the task in this case is for the Baltic states, like for the frontier post - to report the violation of the border in time and try to hold out until the main forces approach. True, under the ossified leadership of NATO, wait, most likely they will not be fate.

[Alexey-74]

So give up right away .........

[New Year day]

Latvian army - where is it?

[Galleon]

I have the feeling that there is a discussion of absurd news from a stupid person, in this case, an Estonian minister. Well, he decided to declare that he has more ... an army, compared to his neighbor, and how powerful he is from this. The usual arrogance, by mistake, has become news. For some gathered on the site, another reason to spit in the direction of the Baltic states and feel their greatness. Just...

[Zaurbek]

And the rest - Eagles ?!

[Galleon]

The rest do not need to feel their greatness in relation to a small neighbor, even if hostile. Will get to the fight - then show. And we will not stoop to the onset of the onset of mockery and reproaches.

[Kibl]

The modern Latvian army is the circus of the cheapest bottling. These are regular parts, and after all there are all sorts of landlords and other trash. Honor is a lot, little use, plus corruption and kickbacks beloved by everyone in the purchase of used weapons and other things, ...., ....

[Catfish]

An Estonian politician advised Latvia to change the army, restoring universal military duty and adding military service to the contract, citing the Estonian army as an example. He noted that there are about 70 thousand people in the reserve of the Estonian army and another 26 thousand serve in voluntary armed organizations.

And this is what the crap turns out: all of them, both Estonia and Latvia, were written off to zero long ago by the NATO main command. Because in the event of the outbreak of the Great War, one ash will remain from these micro-settlements. So in Latvia the people turned out to be smarter - why the hell spend money on the army, if there is no use from it, it is better to "live for your own pleasure." It is the Estonians who still cannot forget their "heroic" past in the German SS, but for some reason they do not want to remember how it all ended.

[Ros 56]

In-in, it's time to start biting each other, for a place in the sun, although to be honest both of them are not worth a damn.

[7,62x54]

NATO needs the Baltic states as donors. And they are trained only so that the organs and body are in good shape. In the event of a mess, surgeons from Europe will gut them still warm.

[Incvizitor]

From whom did these Selyuks generally gather with assault rifles? In the event of a conflict, Russia will simply burn them with missiles ...

[Cetron]

Why burn out? Come, meet - and there is vodka, and a beer. True, after Western corporations bought out production and brands, beer became worse, reminds German of average lousiness. And Natsik in percentage terms is no more than yours, though the majority is in power. At the household level, they are quickly put in place. In Latvia, 40% are not Latvians, as many are from mixed families, the very one is Russian at heart, the name and surname are not Russian.

[Oleg (Kharkov)]

But when everything was different. These people terrified the Russian people.
The Latvian Rifle Division became the first division of the Red Army. Latvian shooters were the largest national military formation in the service in the Red Army. They were used exclusively as a fighting force on the side of the Bolsheviks. Their total number is about 80 thousand people. The regiments of the Latvian riflemen were widely used on the entire front of the Civil War.
Parts of the Latvian riflemen differed in iron discipline and were used to suppress anti-Bolshevik uprisings in a number of cities (Yaroslavl, Murom, Rybinsk, Kaluga, Medyn, Saratov, Novgorod, etc.). Many commanders of the Latvian riflemen subsequently, after the disbandment of the units, were able to achieve large leadership posts. So, the first Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of the Republic (RKKA) was Joakim Ioakimovich Vatsetsis, and the first head of the GULAG was the former Latvian shooter F. I. Eichmans. Latvian shooters also began to occupy significant positions in the Red Army.
It was the sailors who were decomposed in February, they were always "tired" of both the service and the "Baltic tea". As Academician A.I. Fursov notes, revolutionary sailors often walked with cocaine (cocaine and morphine were the most common drugs in Petrograd, sailors made up the lion's share of their consumers). And what is the use of drug addicts? Kill women and children? They say that the sailors sent to us from St. Petersburg were completely mad from drunkenness, from cocaine, from self-will. Drunk, they rush to the prisoners in the Chechen emergency without orders from their superiors and kill anyone. Recently they rushed to kill some woman with a child. She prayed to be spared for the sake of the child, but the sailors shouted: "Don't worry, we'll give him an olive oil too!" - and they shot him too. For fun, the prisoners are driven out into the yard and forced to run, while they themselves shoot, deliberately making mistakes.
This was not the case with Latvians. arbeiten und disziplinen!

[aszzz888]

Latvian army called the weakest link in the defense of the Baltic

And she once was a strong link ?!