If you have psychopathic neighbours, it is usually wiser to find a way to live with them than to provoke them. And let us not forget that Churchill ultimately effectively ceded your countries to Stalin as part of the post-war settlement. At some level, in the great game of power politics, morality has never been the deciding factor. I also seem to recall that Kaja Kallas's husband continued trading with Russia long after the invasion of Ukraine had begun, despite the moral grandstanding from many European leaders. Principles often appear more flexible when money is involved. As I have said before, if Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania wish to spend half their GDP on a new Maginot Line, or establish an Eastern European defence pact, that is entirely your prerogative. I wish you well. But I have become a British isolationist by instinct and by conviction, because I believe it is in Britain's national interest. Nor am I persuaded by the tendency to ignore the grievances of Russian-speaking populations who, through the accidents of history and shifting borders, found themselves stranded on the wrong side of a frontier. Whether one agrees with their complaints or not, dismissing them entirely has hardly contributed to stability.In the UK at great expense we allow the Welsh their language as a right as I understand it in Estonia you discriminate against the unfortunates who were left on the wrong side of the fence and in doing so sow the seeds of future conflicts.
