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.

  • Apollo42@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

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

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      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.

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        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.

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          8 months ago

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

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            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.

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