From: Taipei Times
Estonia and its neighbors fear that a battle of wits with Moscow could end badly
By Julian Borger and Luke Harding / The Guardian, TALLINN and KIEV
The US general said that in Wales, “we had great acceptance among the NATO allies, though, that if you attribute this ‘little green men’ issue to an aggressor nation, it is an Article 5 action and then all of the assets of NATO come to bear.”
The security services in the three Baltic states predict Russia will try to destabilize them and disrupt the assimilation of their ethnic Russian populations, in ways that stop short of triggering a NATO response.
Estonian security officials say the FSB is conniving with organized crime in the smuggling of cigarettes and other contraband, and point out that Russia used smuggling routes to supply arms to Ukrainian separatists.
