Prime Minister of Estonia Kaja kallas says that the war in Ukraine must end with the defeat of Russia, the disintegration of the country and its division into smaller states. Kallas proposed a solution a week ago, the former president of Estonia Lennart Meren at the eponymous annual conference in Tallinn. According to the prime minister, Russia is made up of many different nations, and breaking it up into separate states would not be a bad thing.
Kallas seems to have found a new idea to continue his career path, although he publicly assures that he will remain in Estonia and as the country's prime minister. He is now strongly advocating that both NATO and the European Union should make it their goal to break up Russia into several small states after the current Russian government has been victoriously defeated in the war in Ukraine.
Kallas' already years-long effort to be chosen as NATO's new Secretary General is likely to be the result of the soon-to-be-retired Norwegian Jens Stoltenberg has run aground as a follower. His anti-Russian attitude does not seem to be sufficiently appreciated even among NATO countries, even though he served as prime minister Sanna Marin (sd) changed the policies of the Finnish government's Russia policy, which he led, to roughly conform to the Estonian model.
Since the chances of Kallas' victory in the next Estonian parliamentary elections seem very good, the prime minister's eyes are now actually directed towards the selection of the new EU commission that will be formed after the European parliamentary elections. The Estonian government can choose one commissioner for the commission, and who could be more suitable as the new defense commissioner than Kallas, who has been aiming for the secretary general of the military alliance NATO for years.
Even if the much-talked-about position of defense commissioner is not established, as prime minister Kallas could in any case appoint himself as a member of the commission, the former prime minister of Finland Jyrki Katainen in the manner of. The portfolio of EU foreign policy director in the Commission would also suit Kallas. Estonia's current commissioner responsible for EU energy policy Kadri Simson said in the beginning of May that he considered it likely that Kallas would aim for one of the two positions in the new commission.
Kallas presents the immediate sending of NATO troops to Ukraine as one of the tools for winning the war in Ukraine. However, in the first phase, the troops of NATO countries would not be sent directly to the front for combat missions, but, for example, to train Ukrainian soldiers on the spot. This would already be cheaper and logistically easier than training the soldiers of the Ukrainian Armed Forces outside the country's borders. Now, Ukrainian soldiers are trained in e.g. in the United States, Great Britain and Norway.
Kallas, who likes to present himself as an expert on the fifth article of NATO, says that even if Russia attacks the trainers in Ukraine, the attacks would not automatically trigger the mutual defense mechanism of NATO related to the fifth article, which would force NATO member countries to go to war against Russia. However, in the opinion of the Estonian Prime Minister, the risk must be taken, because in any case there is now a war against Russia. However, in his opinion, there are no grounds for the fear of a major war occurring in several other NATO countries.
In the opinion of the Prime Minister of Estonia, some NATO countries seem to be afraid of Russia's use of nuclear weapons, in addition to the escalation of the war in Ukraine. At the same time, Kallas accused some NATO member countries of falling into Russia's "trap of intimidation". President Vladimir Putin according to Kallas, he strives for exactly that.
The Prime Minister of Estonia is also sure that sending soldiers from NATO countries as trainers to Ukraine would not escalate the war, because the country already has military advisors from several member countries of the military alliance, such as the Polish foreign minister, who is a member of the Kallas family. Radoslav Sikorsky has publicly admitted. The Baltic countries, Poland and Finland are among the NATO countries that have given their support to the French president Emmanuel Macron's to speeches that sending NATO troops to Ukraine to support the country's armed forces should not be ruled out.
Finland still opposed Macron's proposal in February. President Sauli Niinistö announced at the meeting of the NATO countries in Paris that Finland does not think that the troops of the NATO countries should be stationed in Ukraine and also stated that Finland does not intend to send its own soldiers to Ukraine.
In March, the convention by Alexander Stubb after taking the oath of office of the president, Finland's position changed. Now Finland no longer rules out sending troops from NATO countries to Ukraine. The foreign minister who talks with other NATO countries on the authority of the president and Orpo's government Elina Valtonen has even appealed to the United States and some other NATO countries not to completely rule out Macron's proposal.
Kallas admits that the military alliance does not agree on the goals in Ukraine. In his opinion, some of the NATO member countries are committed to helping Ukraine win the war against Russia. Some, on the other hand, "just" think that Ukraine should not lose the current war.
In February, Russia issued an arrest warrant for Kaja Kallas. Russia accuses the prime minister of destroying monuments to Soviet soldiers who died in World War II buried in Estonia.
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Is that US carrot still juicy in the opinion of all the donkeys. Estonia has no weight in the EU (neither does Finland), so that girl's babbling seems to be just internal politics. Anti-Russian sentiment has always gathered votes in Estonia.
When KAJA KALLAS appears strongly against Russia in public, it is worth remembering the uproar that was revealed in August 2023 that a company partly owned by Kallas's husband Arvo Hallik was said to have handled transport to Russia. Estonia's largest newspapers Postimees and Eesti Päevaleht demanded Kallas' resignation and more than half of Estonians were of the same opinion. Estonia's weight in both the EU and NATO is much lower than Estonia would like it to be. That's why it's not worth taking Kallas's words too seriously, even though they are of course symptomatic of the times.
Kallas' frantic attitude towards the war in Ukraine also contains a genuine fear of what a military failure for the Western alliance supporting Ukraine means for Russia's small border neighbors. Decades of undiplomatic brawling and provoking a dispute under NATO's umbrella may one day come to fruition when NATO's (= US) interest in Ukraine ceases and attention is focused on its real enemy, China. Kallas would have already wanted to "safely" become the Secretary General of NATO, but because of that August 2023 thing, that way is probably blocked. But you can always try.
Kallas' statement brings to light the "existential threat" that Russia has claimed to be the target of from the West. That's what Kallas is now announcing: the goal is to scatter Russia. This is what American dissidents have been talking about for a long time about NATO's efforts in the war in Ukraine.
But this perception of Russia has been taught by Western media and especially Finnish journalists to regard Russia as a paranoia that has no real basis. -What now?
I don't really know if the Prime Minister of Estonia can say anything he thinks in public, at least without asking Washington first. Is he soloing? Or does the USA really want to come out of the closet and reveal this scenario? Why?
And does, for example, France or Germany want to take this path, to break up Russia? Is it in their national interest for the Americans to gain a greater economic and military foothold in Europe, in the territory of a supposedly disbanded Russia with its puppet governments? And how stable and safe would Russia be if cut into smaller pieces? Would it increase the security of Europe or, say, the Caucasus?
This is just speculation, of course. I find it hard to believe that Russia would allow itself to be disintegrated.
Full madness seems to be spreading in Europe!
Now the president of Estonia also stepped forward and presented the correct observation that there is no point in waiting for Russia to change, at least not quickly. But he presented his approach to this: we must put pressure on Russia.
Heikki Talvitie has aptly commented on this attitude in his article "Greater Russia and Finland":
"The Finns have been concerned that Russia is not a Western democracy.
A better starting point could be to think of Russia as Russia and try to find out what Russia is.
The social development of Russia is carried out by Russians, and outsiders do not have much opportunity to influence it. And the more you try to influence, the greater the resistance.” ((Russia, Russia, Russia! 2014)
Stupid skunks and stubbles have no chance of stomping the Russians into the ground, luckily!!!
Lilliputti Estonia is booming. Yet.
Is NATO going to break apart other multinational states/federations under Kallas' leadership next? USA, EU, India…. Sweden is already quite multinational, yes, that too could be broken up into smaller regions.
The leaders of all NATO countries who support the sending of troops to Ukraine must be driven to the front lines of Ukraine. Otherwise, those fools and morons don't understand what war is like.
Somehow, the behavior, the words and the appearance are reminiscent of Sanna Marin. Yes, Sanna arranges a job for Kaja. The tough guys have to get ahead.
Well, it's good that someone from that camp is now saying the West's goal out loud. There is no need to convince people of this anymore, when many have been very suspicious of this kind of "conspiracy theory" until now.
Is Kajas' exit sheer stupidity or is this a new step forward in the project? Let's get people used to the idea that a broken Russia would be better for everyone?
It's shocking to see what a person can do in the name of pursuing their own interests.