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Inside the Suwalki Gap, NATO's 'Achilles' heel'
NBC Newsยท2025-08-08 21:46

If there were to be a war between Russia and NATO, this would probably be ground zero. I'm standing right in the middle of the Suvulki Gap. It's a crucial 65mm area along the border between Poland, where I am, and Lithuania to the north. It's really important to the United States and to NATO because it's the only land bridge between the central European partners in NATO and their Baltic allies in the north.But that's not it. If Russia were to control this area, it would be the only landbridge between Kineng ...