#Estonia's Prime Minister Kaja #Kallas was asked what was preventing the free world from doing more to help #Ukraine:
"Fear keeps us from supporting Ukraine. Countries have different fears, be it nuclear fear, fear of escalation, fear of migration. We must not fall into the trap of fear because that is what #Putin wants. He wants us to be afraid and not support Ukraine out of fear."
"Let's be decisive and not let our adversaries dictate our future,"
A powerful artifact was created during @pluralistic visit to Tartu on May 10th after the #seizethemeans of computation discussion at the Institute of Computer Science. Pretty obvious what it does, because it has Cory's incantations recorded on it, but what does it take to operate it? https://w.wiki/A3jT#tartu2024#estonia
"We are witnessing a historic process -- Russians are leaving for the first time in two centuries," independent Azerbaijani analyst Elhan Shahinoglu told AFP.
#Kallas is one of many European politicians trying to spell out the many negative consequences to #Europe of a #UkrainianDefeat, and rebut those who claim such a reverse could be contained.
She was speaking the day after the former Estonian president #Toomas Ilves predicted that if #Ukraine fell to #Russia as many as 30 million Ukrainians would seek to flee
#EuropeanUnion foreign policy chief #JosepBorrell on Friday called the removal of Estonian buoys by Russian border guards on a river separating the Baltic country from #Russia “unacceptable,” and demanded an explanation from Moscow and the immediate return of the orange floats. #Estonia#Ukraine
#Estonia installed the #buoys following the treaty on the #StateBorder and the agreement on the placement of buoys concluded between the border services in 2022. The first 50 buoys were installed on May 13, and #Russia removed about half of them. #NarvaRiver#Ukraine
ℹ Estonian Foreign Minister Margus #Tsahkna said that #Tallinn is considering joining the Czech-led initiative to buy critically-needed artillery shells for #Ukraine, #Czech media outlet Ceske Noviny reported
The initial quantity of 800,000 shells in February has since, reported by the Italian newspaper Corriere della Sera, increased to a total of one million shells - a mix of 155mm and 122mm shells
An #arrowhead made of #meteorite iron: around 1,500 BC, a meteorite struck #Estonia. A fragment of it arrived - presumably in the baggage of an amber trader - at what is now Lake Biel, #Switzerland. An arrowhead was then made there from the cosmic iron.
From Mörigen, 900-800 BC.
Estonian Prime Minister Kallas has refused to guarantee that the country's military will not be sent to Ukraine
During her speech, parliamentarians demanded that the prime minister guarantee that the Estonian Defence Forces would not involve in military operations in Ukraine.
I don't make such promises because circumstances can change.... We have clearly chosen a side here, and that side is Ukraine, because Russia is a direct threat to us.
People might know that there are countries where it is effectively impossible for Jews to live.
What less people know is that there are countries where Jews are not banned outright, or prevented from getting work permits by law, but are made to pay a "Jew Tax" in the form of preventing Jews from producing kosher meat, requiring them to buy foreign meat that is less available and costs a lot more.
Those countries are Denmark, Switzerland, Sweden, Finland, Estonia and Slovenia.
These countries have a "Jew Tax" which requires their Jewish citizens to buy food at higher prices.
Canada has now joined these countries.
When I was in school and people would ask "How could people pass laws against Jews?", the answer is this... by starting with making life more difficult for Jews, then like the frog in the pot, turning up the heat.