Diplomats say Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine has brought back darkest memories of occupation under Stalin

Nato must be ready for Russia launching an “existential” war against the Baltic states “masked by a blizzard of disinformation”, ambassadors from the three countries have warned.

Writing exclusively for The Sunday Telegraph, the top diplomats to the UK from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania said that Russia could “pivot quickly” from Ukraine to invade the Baltic.

And they said that Vladimir Putin’s brutalisation of Ukraine is evoking the three countries’ “darkest memories” of occupation under Stalin.

The Estonian ambassador Viljar Lubi, the Latvian ambassador Ivita Burmistre, and Lithuania’s charge d’affaire Lina Zigmantaite, wrote the joint article to mark Friday’s 20 year anniversary of their countries acceding to Nato.

  • @Linkerbaan
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    -98 months ago

    Biden is the one that dropped Ukraine this time around. Why only blame Trump?

    • Eggyhead
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      48 months ago

      I would venture to guess it’s because this time around might not have existed in the first place if Trump didn’t invest so much of his presidential attention to stroking Putin’s ego and having secret meetings with him in Helsinki.

      But what do I know? I just wanted to tell you that you were doing more mental gymnastics than the other guy.

      • @Linkerbaan
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        8 months ago

        Wouldn’t have existed if Biden and the UK didn’t tell Zelensky to abort peace negotiations in 2022 because “they got Ukraine’s back” . Now we see they did not in fact “got Ukraine’s back”.

        Biden is only on his knees for Netanyahu giving him as many Genocide bombs as possible.

        • Eggyhead
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          38 months ago

          You’re not wrong, but which came first, Biden & UK saying that stuff to Zelensky, or Trump getting cozy with Putin on Twitter, meeting with him privately in Helsinki, Russia’s election interference, and Trump’s insurrection attempt, and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine? Maybe I’m just not clear on the timeline. Would you mind putting those in chronological order for me?

          • @Linkerbaan
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            -68 months ago

            Putin invaded Ukraine because NATO tried to invite Ukraine which went against the deal with Russia.

            Blaming that on the orange man who just slushed some cash away to mar-a-lago is saying a lot about how much the average Biden voter understands about Geopolitics

            • Eggyhead
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              38 months ago

              Woah! NATO was invading Ukraine?? Are these the mental gymnastics I keep hearing about?

              • @Linkerbaan
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                -58 months ago

                invite Ukraine

                Reading is truly difficult

                • Eggyhead
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                  48 months ago

                  Ah my bad. It’s still early in my part of the world. So hadn’t Trump also been talking about NATO in a manner that kind of undermined its strength and encouraged an attack from Russia during his presidency as well?

                  • @Linkerbaan
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                    8 months ago

                    NATO promised Ukraine not to expand eastward for a very long time and did so anyways. GDF has a good video on it

                    Putin offered a truce in 2022 for guarantees that Ukraine wouldn’t join NATO.

            • Natanael
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              38 months ago

              You know that’s a lie, and that makes you a propagandist supporting a genocidal dictator

    • Natanael
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      18 months ago

      Strange way to spell Republicans blocking votes