Russia tends to justify its expansionist wars by claiming that it is merely protecting Russian-speaking minorities in foreign countries. Of the six million people residing in the Baltics, approximately one million (17 per cent) are ethnically Russian. Ballooning the Baltics’ Russian population would allow Putin to more easily justify a future invasion on phony-humanitarian grounds.... Pro-war sentiment has also been observed in the Russian diaspora, particularly in Germany, where Ukrainians living there have been harassed by ethnic Russians so often that many no longer feel safe in the country.... They believe that a significant portion of Russian draft dodgers are...