"Note: at 22:00-22:30, the British military commentator says that the conflict was forseeable because of the "encroachment" of NATO military forces on Russia and former-Russian controlled territories; it does not refer to Russia's "feeling of encroachment" which would be a more defensible statement. This endorses Putin's position that the Baltic countries, and probably Poland as well, are not "really" independent, but rather should be, to one extent or another, within Russian control and without the ability to resist."