Baltics
The year the Baltic states joined NATO and the EU.
What is 2004?
Russian ally which likely would serve as a proxy for westward aggression.
What is Belarus?
The number of NATO members.
What is 30?
The current size of NATO forces in the Baltics and Poland.
What is ~35,000?
The "I" in STIMP weighing mechanisms.
What is irreversibility?
The capital of Estonia.
What is Tallinn?
In 2014, Russia annexed this Ukranian island.
What is Crimea?
Besides the US, the only other non-European NATO member.
What is Canada?
Amount of time it would take for Russia to successfully control the Baltics states in the status quo.
What is 60 hours?
What is collapsing?
Energy commodity for which the Baltics are dependent on Russia.
What is natural gas?
Russia's only warm-water port.
What is Kaliningrad?
Present-day NATO's current guiding military strategy.
What is Deterrence?
The number of brigades required to prevent a rapid Russian invasion of the Baltic states.
What is 7?
The current governor of Texas.
Who is Greg Abbott?
The year the Baltics states gained their current independence?
What is 1991?
Vladimir Putin's most recent political challenger.
Who is Alexei Navalny?
NAT provision that allows for allows for collective defense.
What is Article 5?
Term for a military force not large enough to prevent an attack, but with enough support from powerful nations that adversaries fear retribution if they were to attack.
What is a trip-wire?
The most common NEG argument for the 2019-2020 Septober PF topic.
What is debt-trapping?
The national flag of this Baltic state contains yellow, green, and red.
What is Lithuania?
Nickname for the border between Lithuania and Poland, which is vulnerable to Russian aggression.
What is the Suwalki Gap?
Name of the current NATO defense commitment to the Baltics and Poland.
What is the Enhanced Foward Presence?
Besides size, the biggest problem with current NATO commitments in the Baltics.
What is non-permanence?
A person who studies bugs.
What is an entomologist?