We seem to have diametrically opposed worldviews. I don’t believe that isolationism is even possible, much less desirable, with so many interlocking systems across the globe, and global problems that pay no attention to borders. The Brits of course were a driving force of globalism, with centuries of colonialism across North America, Africa, and Asia (talk about illegal immigrants!) I don’t know where you stand on present-day immigration to the UK, but for an Anglo-Brit to complain about it is rather rich. Yes, Kaja Kallas’s husband’s dealings with Russia have indeed been a scandal, much commented on in Estonia and elsewhere. As you wrote earlier, no nation emerges from history with entirely clean hands. I don’t think that it substantially diminishes her effectiveness as a spokesperson for Ukraine, and for standing up to Russia, but others may feel differently. As for the Russian-speaking populations in Estonia (and Latvia), that’s way too much to go into in a forum post. I understand your wish to avoid war and live out your life in “comfort and peace.” However, history has shown that, when you appease an expansionist dictator such as Putin (who fancies himself as Peter the Great), well, war often has a way of finding you. Perhaps you should revisit a verse by one of your great poets, John Donne, that I’m sure you read as a schoolboy -- which starts, “No man is an island.” (Another of your great artists, though more contemporary, PJ Harvey, read the poem aloud on stage on the night the results of the Brexit vote came in.)
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