Hey guys,what do you think about the message? Another casual threat coming from Putin to Baltic States?How do you personally perceive Russian speakers in Latvia?
TL;DR: Putin threatens to Latvia, as he put it, because of “pressure on the Russian-speaking population”
[https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/appropriate-response-to-follow-putin-starts-1701719808.html](https://newsukraine.rbc.ua/news/appropriate-response-to-follow-putin-starts-1701719808.html)
by NeychD
15 comments
Okay putin let’s go to bed
He does this every couple months.
For me (I’m Latvian), I have no problems with Russians who are respecting Latvia and have no problem to communicate in Latvian language (meaning, having nothing against Latvian language). Respect anyone who respects Latvia, Latvians, doesn’t matter who they are.
Yes, there are many who are supporting Russia, and I don’t believe that these people will change their mind… No matter what Russia does, they will support anyway and blaming other countries, other nations… That’s their ”thinking”.
From my personal experience and feelings, I would say 1/4 of Russians in Latvia are loyal to this country, many don’t care much about politics and just living their lives and maybe half are having vatnik type of thinking. Something like that.
Man liekas ka sen jau nevienam nepiš
He probably didn’t threaten only Latvian beavers yet, so nobody really takes this clown seriously anymore.
Old man yells at cloud.
Wait until you find out about medvedev’s weekly nuclear threats (they correspond to his drinking binges)
russia has been accusing Latvia of russophobia since the 1990s, but russia uses the term very loosely. in Putin’s interpretation, even russian kids learning the official state language at school is a form of russophobia.
We’ve always been high on Putin’s list of countries that he wants to occupy, mainly because of our geographic location. If we wouldn’t have joined NATO, russia would’ve attacked and occupied us even before Georgia back in 2008.
Notice that he uses the term “russian-speaking population”, which also includes Ukrainians, Romans, Poles. In reality Putin doesn’t care about them, he just needs them to destabilize the country and cause unrest. Luckily our “russian-speaking people” aren’t the same as russians living in russia. Ours are smarter, and I very much doubt that any of them want Putin to come and “save” them from “nazi Latvians”.
Every time Putin speaks it just reminds me of what my grandfather would say. “Ne pļāpa tā ka pakaļu zem udens” and “Tītars uzkāpa uz mēslas čupa un domaja ka vinš bija ķēninš.”
He can pick them up at the border and add them to his other pressured russian speaking Russians in Russia.
*yawn*
I think it’s a Tuesday.
That’s because he’s baltophobic.
It’s not a fobia if fear has merit.
Hopefully empty threat with us being in NATO. But what definitely will happen and is happening is propaganda, loyalist recruitment, “spies” and subterfuge in government and local populace.
So don’t worry about war on border but worry about separatism.