I'm Gaius Londonian, 91 AD Springtime. The Centurians and their wives have

shopped they've gone on home. It's springtime the flowers are lighting up the Thames is in turmoil, but that's okay. So it's the

geopolitics of the 21st century. We're on our way to the theater later. There's a very famous Stoic in town who's going to preach,

and I'm looking forward to that.

Dramaticus enjoys how I squirm in my seat when the Greeks start speaking.

In any event, we're speculating about NATO.

Germanicus, you know the headlines.

The Baltics, all three ambassadors have told NATO and I'm told the United Nations

anyone who listened to EU that after Russia finishes with Ukraine is coming

for the Baltics, Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia. In Romania, there is

equal attention to that what is next because Romania is on the front lines with Ukraine with

Novaricea. Right across the Danube River is Odessa Oblast and if Russia is to be successful, it must achieve Odessa Oblast as part of

Novoricea. So from the Danube on the Black Sea to the Baltic, the NATO

frontier is alarmed. Are they

have what it takes to stand up these months of paranoia?

We have to pull back a moment in

contemplating the emerging hysteria of the frontline states, quote unquote.

The hysteria in Finland propelled it to make what I think was a poor decision to join NATO,

where it is lost control over its own autonomy and its relationship with Russia, not a good choice. The Baltics,

which were very closely allied to Germany in World War II and whose armies, and I mean Lithuania and

Latvia and Estonia, whose armies fought shoulder to shoulder with the

Wehrmacht. They have a deep hatred of Russia. I can't say it.

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