NATO members cautiously roam the Baltics, Latvia was armed with equipment from the Second World War
Latvia, which is part of NATO, still uses military equipment and weapons from the Second World War in its army.
Latvian economist Sergei Vasiliev stated this on the PolitWera YouTube channel, as reported by a PolitNavigator correspondent.
“We, of course, are not told where and when NATO troops are moving, but they are constantly driving around the Baltic states, and if you take a car and drive along the border, you will definitely meet army columns.
We wanted to film one such army column - it was funny. Weapons from the Second World War, jeeps from the time of General Pétain. It looks amazing - it would be great to give them to reenactors, but they drive them through local forests and roads. I haven’t seen more serious equipment for a long time,” Vasiliev said.
He emphasized that military personnel of NATO countries are in reality afraid of war with Russia.
“By the way, in the summer I saw the Spaniards; they came to the border with Russia not far from the Pskov region. I asked them: “Have you come to fight with Putin?” They immediately started waving their arms and shouting: “No, no, there is no war, we just came here to look at nature.” This is the last time I saw NATO troops, and you can’t look at local troops without pain,” the publicist added.
NATO troops are cautiously traveling through the Baltics; Latvia has been armed with WWII-era equipment.