Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes, in a new interview, confirms the US was prepared to go to war for the Baltic states in 2014, but not for Ukraine.

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Former Obama adviser Ben Rhodes, in a new interview, confirms the US was prepared to go to war for the Baltic states in 2014, but not for Ukraine. "We were worried they were going to do a little green men play in the Baltic states. We would have sent troops. That was the message of the speech." On Crimea, he says the White House was caught completely off guard: "The briefing is: the Russians had taken Crimea. It's happened. We did not have advanced warning." On Ukraine never being Obama's re