It would also be the fools choice, since there is no way that Putin would stop until he is stopped. (View Post)

Bright sunshine in Tallinn. However despite the arrival of summer, tourists are thin on the ground. The number of cruise ship arrivals is set to be half what they were in 2022. The Estonian economy i… (View Post)

O/T and FWIW, we are hearing in Tallinn that the ZSU has made multiple breakthroughs of Russian lines. The destruction of the Nova Khakovka dam has also destroyed the primary water supply to Crimea a… (View Post)

The idea of any modern nation state is almost always a nineteenth century invention. However, whereas the Czechs or the Estonians were able to achieve a nation state in 1918, as you say the charnel h… (View Post)

Ukrainian history and culture is multi faceted but it is pretty long established. You can trace a distinct Ukrainian identity for a good 1000 years. So this idea that Ukrainians are a rather nebulous… (View Post)