Diplomats say Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine has brought back darkest memories of occupation under Stalin

Diplomats say Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine has brought back darkest memories of occupation under Stalin

Nato must be ready for Russia launching an “existential” war against the Baltic states “masked by a blizzard of disinformation”, ambassadors from the three countries have warned.

Writing exclusively for The Sunday Telegraph, the top diplomats to the UK from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said that Russia could “pivot quickly” from Ukraine to invade the Baltic.

And they said that Vladimir Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine is evoking the three countries’ “darkest memories” of occupation under Stalin.

The Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi, the Latvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre, and Lithuania’s charge d’affaire Lina Zigmantaite, wrote the joint article to mark Friday’s 20 year anniversary of their countries acceding to Nato.

  • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1536·
    8 months ago

    Yep because they got leaked. Real sad that Biden is using the same dirty tactic Trump used to secretly sell weapons to Saudi. But of course Biden does it to support Genocide, not help Ukraine. And Biden recently passed the free israel money without Ukraine in the bill. Because Joe Biden does not seem to care about Ukraine at all aside from optics.

    • Apollo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      186·
      8 months ago

      I think you may be under the impression that “secret” means something it does not.

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1024·
        8 months ago

        Strange when Trump did this to secretly sell weapons to Saudi it was a massive scandal and we all really cared about it. But if Biden does it it’s fine because only Trump would do violate his presidential powers this hard.

        By the way do show me the receipts of these sales if they aren’t secret.

        • Apollo42@lemmy.worldEnglish
          135·
          8 months ago

          You speak only for yourself, there is no we here lol.

          I really would suggest at least checking what the word secret means.

          • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
            416·
            8 months ago

            You’re desperately trying to argue semantics because you don’t have any actual argument.

            • afterthoughtsEnglish
              1·
              8 months ago

              Yeah. It’s how these tribalists operate.

              Say anything bad about biden during an election year and you may as well be supporting Hitler in their feeble minds.

              • hark@lemmy.worldEnglish
                211·
                8 months ago

                Do you think this self-portrait will magically win the argument for you?

    • UristMcHolland@lemmy.worldEnglish
      71·
      8 months ago

      Hmmm I wonder who is responsible for the aid money not going to Ukraine. Couldn’t have been republicans refusing to vote for it. Nope… That can’t be it

      • Linkerbaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        47·
        8 months ago

        Oh look there’s still someone left that believes in the fairy tale of voting and the President not being able to bypass congress after being directly demonstrated of the opposite.

        • Natanael@slrpnk.netEnglish
          31·
          8 months ago

          Trump broke laws to do that and the only reason nothing happened is because the stolen SCOTUS seats gave him immunity