Last month, the New York Times reported on preparations underway in Estonia for an invasion by Vladimir Putin’s Russia. These kind of preparations are entirely reasonable, for NATO will almost certainly not come to the defence of Estonia. The Kremlin has both the means, the precedent and the motive to take on at least one of the Baltic States at any time in the future. What is remarkable is the way in which Estonia is preparing for this eventuality. It is not investing in hundreds of new tanks, or vast new squadrons of aircraft, or building a nuclear weapons programme.
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Source: Middle East Monitor
