Puzzle: can you figure out the mnemonic acronym?

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Here’s a mnemonic puzzle for you. It’s an embellished (a few extra letters thrown in) and memoria sillabarum (combined selected syllables) style acronym that has been made into a visual sentence (acronyms surrounded by narrative logic). This is not a previously published mnemonic you Googlers!

A wooden slat is pushed underground using a lipo procedure to suck out all of the shrubs of the countryside.

Clues to come until someone gets the right answer.

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Clues:

  1. The three acronym-style words in the visual image are slat, lipo, and shrub.
  2. These eight items have been in the war news over the last week.
  3. Did I say countryside? Why yes, i did say COUNTRYside.
  4. Now I’m giving it away. These are the eastern eight bordering NATO countries to a bum.
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Nothing here

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@Liam, keep trying, it will come to you.

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There should.be enough clues to figure it out now!

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“sh”?

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@Liam,
s-h-r-b

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H? Hrvatska?

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@Liam, it’s all in English. Maybe that’s the problem.
H = Magyarország (Hungary)
Hrvatska = Croatia

My bum is Belarus, Ukraine, and Moldova. Can you see the line of countries that form the NATO alliance on the eastern side now?

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Yes, thank. I don’t know why I ignored Hungary.

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Here’s the breakout for the slat, lipo, and shrub eastern border of NATO nations:
eStonia, LATvia, LIthuania, POland, Slovakia, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria.

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