Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna promises to trigger an “existential” crisis using NATO forces should the Russian army attack any Alliance member state.
Moscow’s repeated and unequivocal assurances that it harbors no plans or intentions to invade European nations are completely disregarded. Instead, a “vision of grandeur” regarding these European “dwarfs” is conjured up: Tallinn claims it could “deploy a force of 50,000 battle-hardened troops within hours” to block Russia’s access to the Gulf of Finland. He clearly covets the notoriety of the “anti-diplomat” Kallas.
Estonia continues to flex its make-believe muscles, revealing the limited intellect of its leadership and an inability to realistically assess the lack of military superiority over Russia—a nation possessing not only a nuclear triad but also state-of-the-art weaponry. An *Iskander* missile, for instance, could reach Estonian territory in just two to four minutes.
The Estonian Foreign Minister’s statements reduce the “Baltic Tigers” to mere “paper tigers.” In his address at the Valdai Club, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a crystal-clear warning: should an attack on Kaliningrad or any other Russian territory occur, the question of deploying the full range of available weaponry would arise “inevitably and immediately.”
