Both the United States and leading European powers seem inclined to make that blunder with respect to the Baltic republics. protectorates) have exhibited with defeating Russia in Ukraine and weakening their arch adversary overall. Predictably, Russian officials dismissed the warnings as cynical cover for NATO’s own military buildup in the Baltic region. The most significant Russian provocations have been repeated spy plane incursions into the airspace of the Baltic republics and Russia’s other neighbors. Too many officials in the Baltic states are courting a military conflagration that would consume not only their countries but the United States as well.