Posted on 03/01/2022 9:00:50 AM PST by Titus-Maximus
Estonia still has yet to find funding for setting up potential shelter sites. Now the state intends to review previously mapped out shelter sites and will try to quickly strike deals with their owners.
Photos and videos of Ukrainians seeking shelter from bombs, shelling and rocket fire in recent days have seen phones ringing at every news desk.
While the military and officials confirm that Estonia is currently not under direct military threat, resources such as the Be Prepared! ("Ole valmis!") app created by the Women's Voluntary Defense Organization (Naiskodukaitse) are helping residents prepare for emergencies. This app notes that the best place to shelter from an airstrike, for example, is in a basement.
"A good place to shelter is made from reinforced concrete, either underground or, if it isn't underground, then it's at least surrounded by embankments and doesn't have any windows," said Rescue Board adviser Lea Vainult.
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Yawn...Estonia spends 1.5% GDP on defence.
They don’t give a fook.
If you don’t have a plan now, weapons and training, somewhere rural with neighbors who know your name and face...it is to late. CULT members... City Urban Liberal Types.... Your going to die immediately, there is no need to have fear when Uber Eats no longer delivers and your electric car no longer charges.
Yawn...Estonia spends 1.5% GDP on defence.
They don’t give a fook.
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And then when a threat emerges on the horizon, they want to build shelters, which I’m not against protecting civilians, but you can’t hide in a hole and hope the hostiles get bored and run away
You are incorrect.
Estonia’s defense spending for 2021, their last full year reported, was 2.3% of GDP - which is in excess of their NATO obligations.
The 2022 defense budget was projected to grow to 2.4% of GDP.
https://icds.ee/en/estonias-2021-defence-budget-the-result-of-a-heated-political-debate/
Damn you and your pesky facts!
“We’ve got provisions and lots of beer”
2.3%, that’s big.
GDP: Three Fiddy.
“Damn you and your pesky facts!”
Yeah, someone isn’t going to make bonus at the troll farm now.
LOL.
Wow. Would you look at that.
They bumped it up from 1.5% from the mid 2010s.
For a country that is screaming about Russia and on the front lines...
They STILL DONT GIVE A FOOK.
When they hit 30% GDP on defence, maybe they will be taken seriously.
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