What are NATO's Weak Points? A Warographics Analysis

Unlock the secrets of NATO's vulnerability! Explore the Suwalki Gap, a 65 km-wide strip between Poland and Lithuania, revealing the alliance's weak spot. Discover the strategic concerns that keep NATO planners awake at night!

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[Ryuzakku]

One day Simon will notice that there's 2 "in"'s in Kaliningrad

[micahistory]

last time i was this early, Sweden wasn't in NATO

[Nturner]

As an Aussie all I’ve seen is bushfires, floods, covid and war for the last decade and I’m pretty freaking over it…we need a global chill pill

[kingslayer]

Lol "Kalingrad" and "Canader" are really getting to me

[TheLaughingcrow]

I love that this is out of date already

[pharmdiddy]

Ah yes and now we can finally count in Sweden for 32 :)

[MrEsphoenix]

"They could fall to Russia in days". I feel like we've heard that before.

[TheXevanosTM]

The fact that Norway wasn’t particularly mentioned really surprised me, more so that Canada was. We have however increased our military budget quite alot, purchasing newer tech in form of transportation, new bases and such here in Norway. Good on.. us?

[luminyam]

I just watched a video on Times Radio with a British general who said that he asked Estonia why the UK received so much help from them. Estonia said they were doing it so that the British would remember this when Estonia gets invaded by Russia.

[elkouste]

As Lithuanian I could say - it’s a little bit worrying, but we are preparing. Lord and the history itself knows what happens when Lithuanians and Polish people joining forces together. ❤

[mmkrk]

Suwałki gap is actually not as a big problem as media say. Russians in their wargames predicted that Poland will take over Kaliningrad region in about 24-48 hours if there will be any hostile activity from Russian or Belarussian side near Suwałki gap, or if Russia attacks Baltic States. It seems that Kaliningrad region became more of liability for Russia than an advantage.

[eamonryan]

As an Irish person, I agree with your assessment of our defence capability, which unfortunately is a near zero as dammit. As a Polish friend of mine says, the "ah sure we'll be alright" phraseology is worthless. If our neutrality is important it's worth defending.
I've been saying this to any member of the body politic who will listen, for quite a few years but I haven't had much success. We're happy not being a NATO member, but at the same time living in the shade of the NATO umbrella.
The Russian cyber attack on our Health Service IT system should have been warning enough that there are hostile players out there who could make life quite uncomfortable for us with little enough effort.
We need to get serious, improve and upgrade our defences and then join NATO.

[ungainlytitan]

The importance of the Suwalki Gap is much lessened now that Sweden is in NATO, he could have waited a few days and this one would have changed.

[chrisyoung]

The UK had to chase a russian submarine away from cork in Ireland on 2 month ago and the irish didnt even know it was there.

[jakubstrumillo]

I was in 2022 at Gotland, they held massive training plans and train dog fights in the sky whole days. They prep as much as they can.

[HopefulNewGuitarist]

Ireland could spend all it's money on protecting those cables and it still couldn't protect them. The vast majority of the cables run through neutral waters

[MrBuckman]

As a Canadian, I'm personally ashamed of Canada's lack of military investment

[xVMouseVx]

severing the america europe internet cable will finally allow me to casually play counter strike

[rock]

I am glad you pointed out the Irish people do not particularly care about NATOs security. In a world where Russia losing means WWIII, you can all continue worrying while we Irish will drink and enjoy our peace.

[lance]

The main weak point of NATO is reliance on USA. Europe needs to ramp up their military infrastructure. They need to produce everything they need. They must act like the USA does not exist anymore and need to learn to defend themselves. The USA is an unreliable ally and will leave NATO if Trump becomes president of the USA again. The EU and NATO need to learn to defend themselves without USA’s help.