Are they really that much safer when Ukraine is reconstituting a domestic cruise and ballistic missile capability? Everyone on the Western side is tolerating Kaliningrad... Where does this all end?
The Finnish border is 333km from St Petersburg.
And where are these missiles? "We" mothballed all these things at the end of the Cold War.
At the same time, we have almost no missiles, we don't want to strike Russia, and we've dismantled the infrastructure (potentially duel use ABM sites aside), so reestablishing the Intermediary Forces Treaty in some form should have been an easy win. Any argument for "Russia is paranoid" is also an argument for "Russia is cheap to placate".
The Finnish border is 333km from St Petersburg.
And where are these missiles? "We" mothballed all these things at the end of the Cold War.
At the same time, we have almost no missiles, we don't want to strike Russia, and we've dismantled the infrastructure (potentially duel use ABM sites aside), so reestablishing the Intermediary Forces Treaty in some form should have been an easy win. Any argument for "Russia is paranoid" is also an argument for "Russia is cheap to placate".