Putin threatens the Estonian town of Narva

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  1. Lovely, yes please do. Opening multiple fronts is an all-time classic and yields great success for the perpetrator.

  2. I wouldn’t take seriously stuff what is meant for Russian internal audience. It surely feels empowering for them* to brag how Russian army could invade Tallinn in three days, and how Estonian nation exists only thanks to generosity of Russian nation, and how Estonians have been slaves in bigger empires and therefore doesn’t deserve to have own country, that Estonians have given like probation period, etc. I read and see such talking points from Russian media all the time. It’s not only Solovjov show, but their mainstream media.

    Another thing is, are they* lost their* minds enough to act according to words.

    *it’s not only uncle Vladimir

  3. Take it seriously. Maybe reply that the Kaliningrad oblast is historically Prussian, not Russian. That said, if he does attack a NATO member… I’m sure the plans are already in place. Russia has trouble with logistics, so striking their logistical capacity would cripple them.

  4. Oh great so Russia has claims to any lands inhabited by slavs in the past ? East Germany,Austria, parts of Hungary,Romania,Moldova,Baltic countries and Finland maybe ?! … this is fucking crazy whats next all slavic countries are in fact Russia ?!

  5. He was just speaking metaphorically and Narva was mentioned in a historic context in regards to what Peter the Great did. At no point in the speech did he threathen Narva or Estonia. Am not sure if the author lost the context due to mistranslation but if you actually watched the full speech, he was talking from a historical context. There is no strategic benefit to Russia to securing Narva.

  6. >Putin met with the young entrepreneurs, engineers and scientists at the Moscow People’s Economy Accomplishment Exhibition’s innovation and education centre, Technograd, and compared himself with Peter the First and said that the czar didn’t conquer Narva and other areas under the Swedish control, but took them back, according to Delfi.

    Probably not the best audience to be making that case to. Peter the Great lived in an era when you tended to be a farmer, someone kinda bound to the land, or someone who extracted wealth from farmers.

    Today, in the present economy, land isn’t the critical resource. Labor, especially skilled labor, is. Conquering land doesn’t give you that labor, because the labor’s generally no longer bound to the land. Mostly not primary sector of the economy, not extracting resources from land.

    The future labor of those entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists of tomorrow, the people to whom he’s speaking, is the resource that one wants to acquire, not land.

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