> only proof regarding ivan is a cherrypicked auto-generated youtube caption > it's not even a full sentence  the only reason they were able to intimidate anyone was because they had over ten times the population anyone else has. even with winter war numbers it would still be a bit questionable. which is why the strategy for latvia and the baltics as a whole was to join nato by forcing our way in. even before there was even the promise being made of joining it we were providing manpower on the side of nato forces in whatever conflicts they were in. and not just a sort of symbolic set number of soldiers that would sit comfortably where there is minimal danger to show up in the statistics, but rather deploying specifically in conflict areas with the intention of fighting.
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