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Estonia mulls preemptive strikes against Russia
GIS Reports ^ | August 14, 2025 | Stefan Hedlund

Posted on 08/29/2025 4:38:48 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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To: doc maverick

See, that is REALLY sick.

I haven’t heard the “We were wrong in ww2 nonsense” in a long time.

You mean that’s why the Japanese attacked us, because of our dastardly presence in Britain?

Absurd.


41 posted on 08/29/2025 7:44:58 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: doc maverick

We were in Estonia. It is like a large Disney world. Good luck, buckos!


42 posted on 08/29/2025 7:48:26 PM PDT by hal ogen (First Amendment or Reeducation Camp?)
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To: MinorityRepublican

They are saying this to scare off the Russians. If they did launch a “pre-emptive” attack, they’d be squashed like a bug. The other problem is that people are too cynical now, and don’t believe that “pre-emptive attacks” are responses to real threats.


43 posted on 08/29/2025 7:51:38 PM PDT by x
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To: poinq

If Estonia makes a preemptive strike I don’t think it gets Article 5 protection...but the West is deceitful so maybe it does.

Either way, it’ll get flattened like a pancake.


44 posted on 08/29/2025 7:56:25 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Williams

That’s not what I said at all.
I said Europe will have to bail itself out without US help if it starts WWIII with Russia.
Two world wars have started in Europe and if they want to start another one, they’re on their own.


45 posted on 08/29/2025 7:57:22 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: doc maverick

Quit while you’re behind.

Our allies didn’t start ww2 and no we aren’t going to abandon them if there’s another war.

That guarantee is what prevented ww3 for the last 80 years.

But you obviously want to be so ignorant as to ignore that reality.

Let’s say Russia overruns Europe and China the Pacific.

Just what the hell do you think would happen to the United States in that world?

Puppies and unicorns?


46 posted on 08/29/2025 8:17:11 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: mac_truck

Oh please grow up.

Estonia is sating that if Russia is about to invade, they will actively defend themselves.

Try to stop being a shill for scumbag Russia.

Russia is planning to attack those countries. They know it. Why would Russia do something crazy like that?
For the same illogical reasons Germany and Japan ended up reducing their countries to rubble by attacking the whole damn world.


47 posted on 08/29/2025 8:21:25 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

“tiny Estonia... would not hesitate to strike first.”

How Russia has fallen. Because of Putin’s folly - he is the Doom of Russia.

I am old enough to remember when Russia’s Military used to be an overmatch for Poland’s. Now Estonia is ready to launch on them.


48 posted on 08/29/2025 8:41:41 PM PDT by BeauBo
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To: Williams

Only the West gets to strike preemptively.

Is that the “rule”?

/lolz


49 posted on 08/29/2025 8:41:46 PM PDT by mac_truck (aide toi et dieu t'aidera)
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To: Williams

I do agree with you that China is the problem.
That’s why Europe can go it alone if they want to start a war with Russia.


50 posted on 08/29/2025 8:47:46 PM PDT by doc maverick
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To: mac_truck

I live in the West I guess you’re an alien or a “citizen of the world”.

Please go live in the scummy countries you constantly make excuses for.

No one was going to attack Russia, Putin did not “preempt” anything.

If you hate and blame America even under President Trump, please get out and go where you can pet the unicorns and puppies.

Whether you know it or not, people like you are useless because rather than defend your own country you will sit around mocking and accusing.

Please do go to innocent Mother Russia and you can join in the invasion of little Estonia while blaming the victim.


51 posted on 08/29/2025 9:38:47 PM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Williams

Puppies and unicorns?

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This thread should stay on the topic, the topic being, Estonia’s bravado in regards to a preemptive strike on Russia.

Do you think this is a wise policy coming from a pygmy nation?


52 posted on 08/29/2025 11:29:12 PM PDT by unclebankster (Globalism is the last refuge of a scoundrel. )
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I suppose they are thinking of that two or three week interval in Feb 2022 before Russians moved across the border, when Putin was saying there would be no invasion of Ukraine. If Estonia saw the same buildup near their border, they might consider pre-emptive action.

I don’t know if Estonia have help from NATO on the scene, at present Latvia has a large contingent of Canadian soldiers in country and that arrangement was just renewed for another year. Maybe Estonia have some other NATO forces on their territory.

Anyway, I don’t believe there is much of an existential threat to the Baltic states because (a) they are in NATO and (b) there are not compelling economic reasons to invade them as with eastern Ukraine. But then Putin is clearly not the most rational individual on this planet right now, and the bar was already fairly low.


53 posted on 08/30/2025 2:21:00 AM PDT by Peter ODonnell (Cleanup on aisles P and Z)
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To: unclebankster

Putin can’t sleep at night because of fear of Estonians marching on Moscow.


54 posted on 08/30/2025 3:43:39 AM PDT by Vehmgericht (s)
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To: doc maverick

Estonia is sending up a “trial balloon”.

I suspect the other Baltic states will join in to halt Putin.

Ill ask again, “In a peace deal, if Putin was granted Ukraine lands they’ve already annexed, conquered, or over-run, why wouldn’t they allow the rest of Ukraine to join NATO?”


55 posted on 08/30/2025 4:41:13 AM PDT by Does so ("Things will now change in Minneapolis AND AT HOME"....Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞ ½¼)
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To: unclebankster

Wrong. It’s Estonia stating that if Russia is about to launch an attack, it will defend itself as it should.

What is with you people that frame every issue in favor of Russia, an aggressive dictatorship, and every issue against free western countries.

You a big expert on Estonia that you think they’re just itching to launch ww3?

And as for puppies and unicorns, I was responding to someone who thinks we should just let Europe fall to Russia. You think we’ll live in any kind of decent world environment after that?

Hey who needs trade or the Atlantic Ocean or all of Europe,right?

Oy whether you like it or not Europe is the cradle and foundation of Western Civilisation.


56 posted on 08/30/2025 6:35:23 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: Peter ODonnell

While I don’t believe Putin wants to fight NATO, I do keep hearing that he may go into the Baltic countries and they are working to lay down a defense.


57 posted on 08/30/2025 6:37:28 AM PDT by Williams (Thank God for the election of President Trump!)
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To: MinorityRepublican

what an idiot!
ww3 neocon on steroids


58 posted on 08/30/2025 9:43:00 AM PDT by CarolinaReaganFan
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To: Does so

I would say if Putin and Xi allow the Taliban and Iran to join BRICS, then Russia and China can’t say much about other countries joining NATO.
Russia and China are bringing two islamist groups into their axis.
Not good.


59 posted on 08/30/2025 10:07:22 AM PDT by doc maverick
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