Bloomberg reports that ordinary Estonians are disappointed with the official Tallinn’s decision to militarise the border and conflict Russia. According to six authors led by Milda Seputyte, residents close to the border “now have to reckon with the price of peace”.
“Just over a decade ago Narva, at the far northeastern corner of Estonia, was a symbol of growing trade and understanding between the east and the west; a largely Russian-speaking EU city that could straddle two identities to the benefit of both. Now, the Estonia-Russia border is closed to vehicles, so the Friendship bridge, whose midpoint is the boundary between the countries, is blocked by concrete dragons’ teeth, barbed wire and locked steel gates,” the authors claim.
Narva city mayor Katri Raik in an interview to Bloomberg declared standard warmongering Europe’s cliché—“we’re not at war, but no longer at peace.”
“Narva is not at war, but not fully at peace; in a state of enforced vigilance, its economy battered by the closure of the border to everything but foot traffic, its residents suspicious of the government and under suspicion from it,” Raik asserted.
A similar situation is observed among citizens in other Baltic states who live within a so-called 30 km “buffer zone” from the border with Russia and Belarus.
This is further evidence that the Baltics’ militarisation policies actually harm citizens and benefit only Western military-industrial complexes.
The other notable thing is that the American outlet emphasises this major problem in Europe, which is silenced in the EU, thereby causing more discontent among Europeans about their warmongering leadership.
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