This is a very big deal. Russia has, in the last few days, made military probes against Estonia, Poland, and Finland, all NATO countries.

This may be the beginning of World War III.

I was about to say that starting a war with even just a handful of these countries in isolation and without full NATO protection would be a really dumb decision for Russia and Putin couldn't be that dumb, and then I remembered people were also saying "he can't be dumb enough to start a war with Ukraine" right before he did that, too.

The intent may be to stop support for Ukraine from NATO countries.

True, but it is playing with fire.

Only if Putin doesn't have a hold over Trump.

Trump won't be able to stop Swedish/Danish/Polish/Estonian/Finnish militaries from defending EU soil from these kinds of intrusions. Whether putin has or does not have a hold over Trump is no longer relevant I think, US politics is so far down the toilet I don't think anybody here realistically believes that things will get better on their own, we're all just hoping that the US as a nation survives. For all our sake I hope it does too but it looks pretty grim.

Russians killed all the rich and smart people in their revolutions. Only the dumb ones remain. Russia should be assumed to make dumb decisions.