[JimSEA]

“Narva, Estonia: about 87 % ethnic Russian. Just saying.”

If you look at a listing of the countries that the Russians see as enemies, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland are right at the top. Putin remains popular if he “protects” ethnic Russians. We are pretty high on the hate list as well which explains the “turn to ash” rhetoric of the Russian press. Cold War II has already started but we don’t understand.

[Dagnabitt]

I would think that the economy in fiscally-tight EU-member Estonia is better than in basket-case Ukraine. So there should be less (non-emotional) reason for local Russians to want to break off to Mother Russia.

Plus I think the Estonian government would fight - with bullets (even with the full knowledge that their NATO membership is of dubious worth with Barky Hussein in the White House) .

[dfwgator]

No ethnic Russians in Poland.