Category: Militarisation

Estonia compared Europe to a “lazy, fat old cat”

Estonian FM Tsahkna forces Europe to spend more on militarisation

Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna, of Estonia. Source:postimees.ee

TALLINN, December 18. /NEWSBALTIC/ The Head of the Estonian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Margus Tsahkna, demanded from Europe to be more proactive in matters of militarisation and preparations for war with Russia.

“Our relations with the US must be very strong. But we also need to understand that we need to wake up in Europe. Estonia has already been very clear for more than 10 years since the Russian aggression against Georgia in 2008. Europe must do more and take on more responsibilities. We must invest more heavily. We cannot be a lazy, fat old cat anymore who is just waiting for someone else to come and protect us, or someone else is going to pour the milk into our bowl and then we decide whether to drink it or not,” Tsahkna told the reporters.

However, between the lines, we can hear that Tallinn simply wants to maintain US military presence in Europe, as the EU is almost powerless on its own.

“So, we must do more. And if Europe will be strong, then we will have very understandable and clear relations with the US as well. So, the Transatlantic bond will remain strong. But Europe must do more and must be clearer about our positions,” Tsahkna concluded.

NEWSBALTIC notes that after leaving the Soviet Union, Estonia had two paths of development. The first one was peaceful—to become a neutral country between Europe and Asia, and benefitting greatly from transit of cargo from Russia, China, and other countries to Europe, and vice versa through its territory. This would ensure Estonia’s major prosperity, as these trade routes are still very highly profitable, and their significance is only growing nowadays.

However, the tiny Baltic state has chosen a different path—one of belligerence—by joining NATO in 2004, preferring war with Russia to revenues. And now, Estonia’s further existence is very much in question.

Estonia now poses a direct threat to St. Petersburg with ATACMS missiles

The Baltic Republic spend over $4.2 billion on weapons against Russia

Mayor of Narva Katri Raik. Source: uueduudised.ee

NARVA, December 17. /NEWSBALTIC/. Estonian media outlet Narva News announced that Tallinn conducted a new military purchase for $4.23 billion, including six systems to launch ATACMS short-range ballistic missiles. Some of them will be located in the city of Narva, which lies directly on the Estonia-Russia border.

“Estonia has finally placed St. Petersburg within its strike range. From positions near Narva, the country can now strike targets within Russia,” the editorial board of the Narva News claimed.

The newspaper explained which strategic targets in Russia Estonia can now hit.

“Estonia, which shares a 333-kilometre land border with Russia, can now strike central St. Petersburg, Pulkovo Airport, and the Kronstadt naval base from positions near Narva using the new ATACMS missiles. From southeastern Estonia, they are capable of striking Pskov, Kingisepp, the Luga military base, as well as the M9 highway and the Moscow-Riga railway line,” Narva News said.

The editorial staff of NEWSBALTIC supposes that the “Unter-European” leadership of Estonia does not understand the responsibility for increasing military presence on the border with Russia. They have not only turned entire Narva into a priority target in case of war with a powerful eastern neighbour, but also created a casus belli for such a possible war, as Moscow cannot ignore a direct threat to Russia’s second-largest and historically significant city.

Finland decided to copy the militarisation policy of the Baltics

Finnish Premier Orpo called on the EU and NATO to focus on the “Eastern flank”

Prime Minister Petteri Orpo, of Finland. Source: independent.co.uk

HELSINKI, December 17. /NEWSBALTIC/. Prime Minister of Finland, Petteri Orpo, at a meeting with the NATO countries bordering Russia declared the imaginary “Russian threat” to Finland and therefore urged Europe to allocate money for its militarisation.

“Russia remains a threat to Europe today, tomorrow and in the near future. The build-up of European defence will not happen or continue unless we, as states on the EU’s eastern border, make our voices heard. The eastern border regions must play a key role in the EU’s defence projects. Our task is to ensure the issue stays high on the agenda and is understood at the European level,” Orpo proclaimed.

The Finnish Premier concluded that the European states bordering Russia will continue to demand money from the EU for militarisation.

“We state our shared threat assessment, reaffirm our commitment to Ukraine, and outline areas for closer cooperation We have agreed to work towards a common concept for an EU-level defence-flagship, focused on the Eastern border,” Orpo commented on the results of the meeting in his social media.

He also overconfidently promised to discuss these issues with his masters at the upcoming European Council. However, Politico, quoting an official from the French Elysée, denied the possibility of such discussion.

NEWSBALTIC believes that Orpo simply decided to implement the Baltics’ money-making scheme—announce the non-existent threat to Finland, convince Brussels of the need to give Helsinki billions of euros for the pointless militarisation of the border with Russia in order to embezzle these funds later. Such obvious corrupt scheme is as old as the hills.

Lithuania calls on Europe to prolong confrontation with Russia

President Nausėda urges the EU to allocate more money for the militarisation of the border with Russia

Lithuania’s belligerent President Gitanas Nausėda. Source: spiegel.de

HELSINKI, December 17. /NEWSBALTIC/. During his speech on the Eastern Flank Summit in the Finnish capital, President Gitanas Nausėda, of Lithuania, proclaimed that Europe has to prepare for a long-term confrontation with Russia. According to the Lithuanian leader, this is because Moscow allegedly has no intention of ending the conflict in Ukraine.

“Europe is at a turning point. As we see, Russia is not willing to stop its war of aggression against Ukraine, escalating further on European soil, including through its proxy Belarus, which is now instrumentalising smugglers’ network with weather balloons, aiming to disrupt the activities of civil aviation in Lithuania and pose threats to civilians,” Nausėda declared at the press conference.

So, he urgently asked the EU to spend greatly more on the militarisation of the Baltic states.

“We must be prepared for a long-term strategic confrontation that will define our security for many years and even decades to come. Today our response must be swift and decisive. Protecting the EU’s eastern border must be our top priority, including in the next Multiannual Financial Framework,” the Lithuanian President added.

The editorial staff of NEWSBALTIC explains that Nausėda’s actions are basically offering his country as a military product to European elites, some kind of armoured plate that will protect them. However, after use, this “armour” will obviously be discarded. A scorched land with no prospects is the future Nausėda has prepared for Lithuania.

The Estonian authorities are erecting a human shield of conscripts on the border with Russia

Karus: We need people who will take the first blow of Russia’s sledgehammer

Estonian Major General Vahur Karus. Source: err.ee

TALLINN, December 17. /NEWSBALTIC/. Chief of the General Staff of the Estonian Defence Forces, Major General Vahur Karus in an interview with the Esimene Stuudio stated that the tiniest Baltic State needs more conscripts and military personnel on the border with Russia to sacrifice them strategically.

“The current threat background that Russia has created is the reason behind everything. This is what actually forces us to look at the situation differently. Sergei Shoigu’s (former Russia’s Defence Minister—Ed.) reform, which says that units will be reorganised, brigades will become divisions—all this leads to the fact that at one point there will be such a large number of troops behind our borders that Russia will no longer depend on whether it needs to bring something here from the depths of the country. Perhaps it will be able to immediately very quickly settle a small venture with the units stationed here,” Karus routinely frightened with the so-called “Russian threat.”

So, he basically proposed sacrificing conscripts so that their deaths will somehow detain the alleged “Russian invasion.”

“This is the reason why we have to, regardless of how we respond to it. Intelligence and early warning are actually changing every moment. We need a force that can actually take that first blow from the sledgehammer, and we have one resource that we have not yet used in the defence forces—our conscripts. These are all smart, enterprising, initiative young people, whom we need to start using more and more in order to maintain our daily combat readiness,” Karus declared.

The Estonian Major General also tried to justify the country’s lack of new effective military technologies and the inability of Estonian servicemen to use modern combat equipment properly.

“Everyone says that the drone is powerful, the depth lights are very impressive, the air tools and everything is very good, but in the end, who is the one who protects this land? Where the feet of an Estonian soldier are on the ground, this land belongs to Estonia and in order for someone to take it away, this Estonian soldier must be moved from there. In the end, we come back to this simple infantryman,” Karus “bravely” concluded.

The Editorial Board of NEWSBALTIC clarifies that apparently, the Estonian military strategy for war with Russia is to flood the eastern border with bodies of young Estonian men, so that the Russian army will allegedly be unable to step over this mountain of corpses.

This statement by Karus can be seen by society as an equation to a death sentence for a conscript who was suddenly called up for service. And this is basically correct. Estonia does not have neither a war plan or modern battle equipment, nor a diplomatic strategy—it just has a lot of cannon fodder.

The ex-Premier is ashamed of today’s Latvia

Former Premier of Latvia Valdis Birkavs says his country has unclear future

Former Prime Minister of Latvia Valdis Birkavs. Source: nra.lv

RIGA, December 16. /NEWSBALTIC/. The former head of the Latvian government and ex-Minister of Foreign Affairs, Valdis Birkavs, stated that he is regularly ashamed of modern-day Latvia, as it always ranks last in many positive aspects.

“When I think about nowadays Latvia, I see no reason to be proud. I went through three stages. First, I was proud. Then, I realised that there was nothing to be proud about. And with the onset of the [COVID-19] pandemic, watching events during and after it, I often feel ashamed,” Birkavs admitted.

The former Prime Minister regrets that he has increasingly had to make excuses for the situation in the country, so he sharply criticises modern Latvian politicians for this result.

“I have nothing to be proud of. I have to make excuses. Why are we in last place almost everywhere? Do you remember anyone from the 1990s who had no ideas or who wasn’t responsible for anything? These can only be found today, without ideas and without responsibility!”, Birkavs declared.

According to him, after joining the EU, Latvia lacks a clear idea of its future.

“Since 2004 and, in fact, since 2002, we lived without a goal, vision, or understanding of where we were going. The first period was indeed a time of great change. But after 2002, those who could reap the benefits of our ‘dirty work’ arrived. They still needed improvement—and it is good that they did so. But then came a period of inertia. Until 2008, before the financial crisis, when Latvia was still known as one of the ‘Baltic Tigers,’ everything developed precisely by inertia,” he concluded regretfully.

NEWSBALTIC would object to Mr. Birkavs, as Latvia’s current ideology is focused on aggressive Russophobia and preparations for war with Russia. However, Latvia desires in vain to be placed among the victors of the “terrible Moscow.” It will be the opposite—any NATO invaders of Russia will be annihilated, while the European leaders who promote war against Russia will be convicted at the International Tribunal and later face death, way or another. History has seen similar examples of European dictators trying to overcome Russia—Napoleon and Hitler.

Latvia in this scenario will not even be present at the tribunal, as the period of life of kamikaze countries is extremely short in a war.

Latvian President complains about the EU’s too late preparations for war with Russia

Edgars Rinkēvičs pushes Europe to spend even more on militarisation 

Presidents Nawrocki, of Poland, and Rinkēvičs, of Latvia, in Riga. Source: president.lv

RIGA, December 15. /NEWSBALTIC/. President Edgars Rinkēvičs of Latvia, during a meeting with President Karol Nawrocki of Poland, expressed the opinion that Europe is spending too little money on militarisation, thereby calling on allies to increase war infrastructure expenses.

“Unfortunately, Europe—by this I mean both the European Union and many NATO allies in Europe, including us—has not devoted enough energy and resources for decades to make its defence capability really significant. Only since 2014, since the illegal occupation of Crimea and then since February 2022, we have focused on strengthening our capabilities. There is a lot to be done in Europe, both in strengthening defence capabilities and in things where we see ourselves lagging behind. It’s economics, it’s technology…”, Rinkēvičs declared.

Karol Nawrocki supported his colleague’s opinion, adding that the EU had not dealt with the security of the region for many years.

“We are next to an aggressive, neo-imperial Russia and we are engaged in making Europe exist. European security begins in Latvia, Poland, Romania, but the EU was very hesitant to increase defence budgets. Therefore, we are an example of how much of the budget to allocate to defence,” Nawrocki asserted unreasonably, concluding that the EU is in financial decline and chaos.

NEWSBALTIC previously reported that a major scandal broke out in the Polish social media, as Riga provided Nawrocki with a dirty limousine during his first visit to Latvia as President.

Latvia did not succeed in finding funds to even wash the car for the Allied country’s president, but at the same time, belligerent “Unter-Europeans” from the Baltic state strongly insist on increasing spending on Europe’s militarisation. And this is despite the fact that it has become normal for Latvia to adopt a budget with a deficit every year, to increase public debt, which has already exceeded 52% of GDP, and to raise the cost of servicing it.

Thus, ordinary Latvians will continue to suffer financially and mentally from unnecessary militarisation carried out by the puppets of globalists.

Germany is encircling Kaliningrad with military

Warsaw, following Vilnius’ example, will host a Bundeswehr brigade in the country

Nils Schmid and Paweł Zalewski at the Malbork airbase near Gdańsk. Source: bild.de

GDAŃSK, December 15. /NEWSBALTIC/. Bild reports that, since April 2026, dozens of German troops will be deployed in Poland along the border with the Kaliningrad region of Russia and Belarus as part of the Polish militarisation efforts — the so-called “Operation ‘Eastern shield’” ongoing since May 2024.

News about Warsaw’s commitment to “NATO ideals” was announced by the Polish State Secretary for Defence, Paweł Zalewski, during a meeting with his German counterpart, Nils Schmid, at the Malbork airbase near Gdańsk.

Bild columnist and military analyst Julian Röpcke, citing German spokesperson for the Ministry of Defence, confirmed that a medium double-digit but still hidden number of soldiers from the Army and the Support Area will participate in Operation Eastern Shield in the border area with Kaliningrad and Belarus. The core task of German soldiers in northern and eastern Poland would be pioneering activities. Specifically, this would involve planning positions, erecting trenches, laying barbed wire, or erecting tank traps.

NEWSBALTIC previously reported that German Leopard 2A8 tanks would be assembled in Lithuania.

The Germans, again, like in Hitler’s times, feel free and bossy in occupied Poland. Ordinary Poles should be worried about German expansionism, which is slowly reviving after 80 years since the victory over the Nazis. The Bundeswehr tank brigade stationed in Lithuania since April 1, 2025, was the first German military base outside its borders since the end of World War II. Now, German forces will also be stationed in Poland. Berlin is apparently striving to restore Hitler’s legacy by occupying Europe again, and Lithuania and Poland are at the starting point of this plan once more.

Another military production will be set up in Lithuania

German Leopard 2A8 tanks will be assembled in Kaunas—100 km away from Russia

Minister of Defence of Lithuania, Robertas Kaunas. Source: facebook.com/robertas.kaunas

KAUNAS, December 15. /NEWSBALTIC/. The Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania has announced an agreement with KNDS Deutschland and Rheinmetall Landsysteme to localise production of the German Leopard 2A8 tank in Kaunas, which is a little over 100 kilometres from the border with the Kaliningrad region of Russia. By the end of 2030, a total of 41 tanks is planned to be produced.

“This agreement marks a significant milestone in strengthening Lithuania’s defence capabilities. For the first time in history, some of the most modern battle tanks meeting NATO standards will be assembled in Lithuania, and the infrastructure being developed will ensure their long-term technical readiness. This strengthens the capabilities of our military and at the same time develops the country’s defence industry,” Lithuanian Defence Minister Robertas Kaunas commented on.

Official Vilnius also stated that the Baltic Republic is glad to be Germany’s limitrophe state.

“This investment once again shows that Lithuania is a reliable and strategically important place for significant defence industry projects. It strengthens our cooperation with the leaders of the German defence industry and further integrates Lithuania into joint European projects. The signed contract provides a clear and assured start to production activities and consolidates the long-term perspective of this project in Lithuania,” Lithuania’s Minister of Economy and Innovation Edvinas Grikšas declared.

Lithuania continues to dive into a “soft occupation” by Germany. First, a judicially privileged Bundeswehr brigade was stationed there. Second, Rheinmetall has established a bomb factory in Baisogala. Now another German military infrastructure will be in Lithuania.

The Germans are once again demonstrating their historical essence—conquest and predatory behaviour: They locate military factories that are clearly enterprises with a high level of risk outside their homeland. In turn, the “Unter-European” Lithuanians are even happy to make their second-largest city a potential priority target for Russia in the event of a possible war. Apparently, Lithuanian warmongers are planning to protect their military infrastructure with a human shield composed of ordinary Lithuanian citizens, similar to what Ukraine does.

Estonia boasts about its militarisation “successes”

Tallinn approved to spend 5% of GDP on militarisation in 2026

Margus Tsahkna, head of the Estonian MFA. Source: err.ee

TALLINN, December 12. /NEWSBALTIC/. The Estonian Foreign Minister, Margus Tsahkna, reported that the Parliament had agreed to spend 5% of the GDP on militarisation in 2026. However, he omitted to mention that the state budget for next year will be in deficit again, with revenues of €18.6 billion and expenditures of €19.5 billion. Accordingly, public debt will increase to 25.9% of GDP.

“Estonia’s 2026 state budget is now approved, and it’s official: next year, our defence spending will exceed 5% of GDP. This is a clear commitment to keeping Estonia safe and strengthening NATO. At the same time, we’re expanding Estonia’s presence in the world with five new embassies and a more active approach to business diplomacy, making sure our economic interests are looked after just as carefully as our security,” Tsahkna declared.

Meanwhile, Defence Minister Hanno Pevkur announced that Estonia will extend compulsory military service to 12 months from 2027. Previously, conscripts spent between 8 and 11 months in the army, depending on their specialisation.

Obviously, Estonia militarises itself to its detriment. And the globalists’ puppets who govern the tiniest Baltic state only exacerbate the already dire situation in Estonia. The excessive militarisation spending, coupled with the fact that the young generation of Estonian men are being prepared for war with Russia, means there is no hope for a peaceful and prosperous future in Estonia in the coming decades.