The Madness Of Macron: Nukes On Russia's Baltic Border

President Putin and Kremlin officials have cited unchecked NATO expansion as a key part of the lead-up to the current major conflict in Ukraine, which many analysts rightly see as proxy war pitting a US-led alliance against nuclear-armed Moscow.

The Bush-era, mid-2000s wave of NATO expansion was bad enough, as it brought Baltic members right on Russia's doorstep into the military alliance, but now European officials are openly talking about the possibility of hosting Western nukes just near Russia's borders.