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To: Krosan
Not a very bright move. That's about 125$ per head with only 1.2 million souls in the whole country. Who's paying for it, probably us.

Russia left 25 years ago. They have better things to do than taking over Estonia.

But I guess it will result in upping the economy becoming a army base for Nato. Signing up to be cannon fodder on the front line of a greedy Nato is dangerous.

2 posted on 12/02/2015 3:10:21 PM PST by duckln
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To: duckln

Estonia’s got a long history with Russia. They fought a war against the Bolsheviks in 1918-19 to keep from being “liberated” by Lenin. Then they helped Latvia (to the south) fight for its freedom in 1919-20. In 1940 they were given to Russia by Hitler in the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty, and the Russians spent a year arresting/killing/deporting around 10% of the population. When the Soviets came back in 1944 as Germany was collapsing, they took out another 10% (or more) of the population. There were still anti-Soviet guerrillas in the Estonian forests well into the 1950’s.

This has nothing to do with being NATO cannon fodder. They just don’t intent to go down without a fight.


3 posted on 12/02/2015 3:34:47 PM PST by happyathome
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To: duckln

Estonia is one of the 6 NATO members who actually meets the NATO spending goal as % of their GDP. Also the militia volunteers shown in the documentary are in addition to that as they don’t get paid.


4 posted on 12/03/2015 1:54:05 AM PST by Krosan
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