Take a look at these 3 maps I posted here a couple of years ago.
Hypothesis: It is believed by some that Putin is not going to wait another year to push into Eastern Europe, and he is up against a timeline. IF this is the case, it could explain the cold stop by Trump of the alleged all out attack on Iran two weekends ago. The reason being that U.S. is ill prepared to do anything about Europe, whereas Russia, Belarus and cohorts have been working on this move (build-out) since 2021. We watched them on satellite almost every night for a full year.
The three sites you see circled; and I know they’re hard to see, were once HUGE, filthy trash dumps, miles long and wide and in very strategic locations. Take a look at Hrodna, 3km from the Polish border, and the far north, near the border with Finland, on a long strip of territory left to the USSR in the division after WW2 (Why?). The base in the middle on The Lithuanian and Latvian border near Belarus. These trash dumps have been transformed into ultra-modern, fully independent bases that are astonishing upon surveying them.
Each base has it’s own electrical plant, missile factory (and they were and are pumping those out), take-off and landing strips that are designed to refuel aircraft in less than 10 minutes while loading up and turning a corner to take off again; similar to a Miss America walkway, for lack of a better description. The take off runways are built similar to those on an aircraft carrier, where they have a decline that helps the plane pick up speed, then the runway slopes upward to assist leaving the ground. That was almost 2 years ago and they have expanded to offices, bunk houses, mess halls, radar arrays, I could keep going on this.
I wouldn’t exactly say that I’d want to meet the designer of these bases face-to-face, but whomever designed them is an absolute genius.
Unless you think Russia and company are going to wait there for another year, the timing is crucial that they go now and I think Trump got the word, stopped plans of attack on Iran and is moving as many troops and equipment into Europe and The Baltics as possible and hurriedly so. For those who think he will leave it too Russia to take without a fight, I think they’re wrong. Take a look at the missile trajectories.
Now, the question is, when will Russia make the push? Answer = September. They must make the initial advance before the snows start and get some territory under their belt. Granted, there are no better troops than Russians in cold, snow and ice but it’s still important to have that property as unobstructed as possible in a first forward move. They need to move as far west as possible.
All indications point to this scenario having high probability. Trump’s backing off a planned attack on Iran, The Saudis and likely Israel left with Hormuz matters. The lack of hardcore bluster from Trump of late (economic means? Hmm.)
Make of this what you will.
