It's understandable that former Soviet Union satellites have an axe to grind with their former master , something Washington craftily exploits. These nations don't recognise they are led by the nose to destruction. Washington doesn't care a bit about European destruction. Its wars always were conveniently far away from U.S. homeland. European crises always offered opportunities for Washington. Both worldwars made the U.S. an imperialist world empire . Plus they paved the road towards Israel. WW2 presumably started because of Poland , which after 5 years and millions of deaths was dumped on another tyrant. A tyrant which was very useful to beat the Nazis.
@@eddyerle3338 Unacceptable equalization to the crimes committed by the Nazi regime. Without Russia, we would most likely live in Nazi Europe today. The young seem to forget. Like Helmut Schmidt said, the astonishing thing is that the Russians have forgiven the Germans for their atrocities. Now we are again turning into enemies, driven by US interests. We were close to a peace agreement in Ukraine, jeopardized by the US.
@@11235but An unsupported counter assertion: Weak leaders that don't have public support often use the fear of a foreign fictional foe to keep support.
Kallas is one of the most stupid leaders in Europe. She has called for breaking up Russia into a thousand pieces, exactly proving one of Vladimir Putin's main points: not content with breaking up the Soviet Union in 1991, USA/NATO wants to break up and destroy Russia. Kallas heads a micro-nation of 1.3 million people and wants to wage all-out war against Russia, a nation of 144 million with a strong military and extensive natural resources. You don't need to be particularly pro-Russian or pro-Putin to realise that she is one of the dumbest and most incompetent "leaders" in Europe. If you want to start WW3 with Russia, and destroy Europe once and for all (after the horrible experiences of WW1 and WW2), then by all means, support this stupid woman that Estonians are unlucky to have.0
@@Wolfvain-qs5su Estonian became independent from Russian in the 1990s by holding hands across their nation and singing for 3 days. (Russia was busy with dissolution of USSR, and left them alone.)
Estonia is not only using 3.2% towards its military, but are also the number one NATO country in donating to Ukraine measured by GDP, far more than America. Denmark is second in that regard.
Yeah, and nothing that pensions in Estonia are among the smallest in EU and inflation and price growth are the fastest in Europe! If you only could read the comments of estonia readers in the estonian media!... Buy the way, during the USSR the birth rate in Estonia was about 25 thousands per year - not it is 11 thousands.
@@avroraaspasia7214, unfortunately, it is not possible to rase pensions and increase the production of weapon or defense spending at the same time. But safety is the main thing for everyone unless a person is a child or one with an IQ of a child.
To their credit the Estonians do give more to the Ukrainian cause than any other NATO member by GDP per capita. However, the United States spends more on defense than any other country on the planet, 12 1/2% of GDP. That’s more spent on defense than the next five countries combined. That amount isn’t needed to protect the US from Canada and Mexico, but to keep the shipping lanes open for everyone, including its enemies!
Estonia and Denmark will play key roles - blocking the Finland strait, blocking the Belt/Oresund passage, using Bornholm as a forward base against so called Kalingrad
perhaps it was a cheap and slightly sexist trick to test her professionlism? or maybe just part of the interviewer's style, and an area of interest he felt could be explored to give a rounded view. Can we really know?
Bingo........she's just pushing BS and trying to raise her publicity among international audiences with such interviews. Her polling numbers in her own country is barely above 10%
@@0626love So I am from New Zealand, folks here hated our PM Jacinda Ardern. Mostly for being a smart and kind woman. Is that a reason to hate someone? why not hate a male dictator bent on genocide, maybe this relects more on your world View. How was your mother??
@@johnmckeowen739 No I like smart people and I like Kaja as a woman (coz I like women) but I hate her, and people hate her, for cooperating with western atlanticists (NATO global warmongerers) or globalists or however you call them (you don't call them at all tbh when no background info - it takes some to understand it). Obviously I can't show you history here, and show documents, on how Ukraine men were pushed to war and being killed by these warmongerers, with no chance against russia, and it is the western warmongerers who started it - on the last point you just need to see documents (Minsk agreements, old agreements on NATO border regions etc - you freekin can't bring nuclear at the border of RU or start killing russians inside Ukraine - that is insane - 11 000 were killed starting from 2014, thousand children murdered by western supported groups inside Ukraine) - but you can go to a RAND dot com site and download the official document ( called "Extending Russia - Competing from Advantageous Ground") ordered by US Army at analysis of how to use Ukraine, Estonia and other border countries to destroy Russia - the document is from 2019, so it is before the last escalation because the document is part of the plan of how these warmongerers, including in Estonia, would trigger the action from Russia. By triggering it that way - all the mainstream media could be turned against RU. Now they try to bring down the government in Georgia, the same way they did it in 2014 in Kiev.
If the US only stops the controversies, I don't think Russia will move further. They have said it loud and clear. NATO is just making ridiculous rumours and speculation
Chihuahua’s have an ego that is inversely proportional to their size. She’s a one-bite dog. Russia could snack that country, but the question is: Why would it? What would Russia gain occupying Estonia?
Nothing. It was a financial drain on the USSR, and Russia rightly let it go. Russians are a large part (20%) of Estonia, but they are not oppressed like in Ukraine. Still, money is on the table, why not take it and just make thumping sounds to make the US happy?
you can always exchange her under prime minister exchange program with Liz Truss it will be a well balanced exchange. you both will lose nothing or gain anything.
I bet Estonians need her more than ever. I can tell you the same about Polish leaders (watch out Poland's FM Radek Sikorski, he used to be UK citizen at one point of his lifehis latest UN speech is epic and viral ) ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0RNy4gyAa6w.html
In WWII, as a percentage, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania kelled more Jews, than Germans in Germany, western Ukrainians in Ukraine and Poles in Poland. She is a great kid of her grand grandfather from Kaitseliit. She returned to her grand grand father genesis. Austrian artist Estonia and EU vs Russia 2.0.
@@TB-bb6kb In 2002, American historian Ian Gross, a Polish Jew who fled to the United States during World War II, published the book “The History of the Destruction of the Jewish Shtetl.” In it, he cites numerous eyewitness accounts and a number of documents that irrefutably prove the fact of the most brutal crime committed by the Polish residents of the town of Jedwabne, which is 100 km from Bialystok. On June 23, 1941, the town of Jedwabne was occupied by the Germans. At that moment, approximately 1,600 Jews lived in it. Half of the entire population. And on July 10, a terrible pogrom against Jews broke out here. The neighboring Poles, who had lived together for centuries, suddenly became brutal. They killed their Jewish neighbors with barbaric cruelty. They chopped off their heads with axes, pierced their stomachs with pitchforks, cut out the tongues of the unfortunates, gouged out their eyes, and drowned them in a pond. The Poles killed Jews in Wonsoš, Wizna and other cities and towns. And in total, during the war years, the Poles carried out 25 more similar actions in the eastern part of Poland. And when Jews escaped from the Holocaust, the Poles caught them and handed them over to the Germans. In 2001, at a funeral ceremony in Jedwabne dedicated to the 60th anniversary of the pogrom, the then President of Poland A. Kwasniewski officially apologized to the Jewish people for these crimes.
Yes, I agree. It's the threat of nukes that is deterring the west. Putin loses the real value of his nuclear sabre rattling, if he actually were to use one. He knows that Russia would be quickly, and violently, sent back to the Dark Ages, without the use of nukes.
Kallas will stay in the job like her Daddy, former PM and Europe Commissioner, did. Hard to call the leader of a poodle nation like Estonia "strong" when they simply lead a little poodle nation with no real military, ranked 117th in the world in real GDP, and a population of 1.3 million people.
@@eddastrohmayer251 first thing in life is freedom. If you appease dictators you provoke them to even more aggressions. My country was sacrificed to Hitler for "peace in our times" and you would probably call Churchill a "warmonger", but he was right. So from both of us you are the guy who brings wars and genocide.
Here's the record of oppression faced by Kaja's father - 1975-1979: Specialist at the Finance Ministry Planning Committee of the Estonian SSR. - 1979-1986: Joint Secretary of the Central Authority of the Savings Banks of the Estonian SSR. - 1989-1991: Chairman of the Central Union of the Estonian Trade Unions - 1989-1991: Member of the Supreme Council of the Soviet Union 1991-1995: President of the Bank of Estonia And so on... Kallas family was a beneficiary of the Soviet System and also a beneficiary of its collapse. This woman is not just a liar but an ingrate as well.
Not going to happen. Estonia has been invaded before and Estonians understand what threatens them. Travel from Tallinn eastwards and the country changes from native Estonians to Russians. The fact that the river crossing over the Narva to Russia has a castle at each end of the bridge tells you something about history. Most Americans are completely unaware of the world outside the USA. Politics in the US involve a party that wants permanent minority rule, even if achieved by questionable means, huge political polarization often based on ignorance or lies, meaningless fearmongering, unnecessary religious interference, pointless arguments on marginal topics, and politics by performance on social media as a replacement for reality. It's not conducive to Estonian-style politics.
Kallas is incredible but to be fair to Biden he has a lot broader portfolio which he has done well with. Kallas has a united electorate and this is probably the number 1 item.
"If the Czech govmnt had had strong weapons (1938), WW2 would have never started...."😅😅😅 This sounds like 'If the Vikings had not chewed funny mushrooms, they wouldn't have qonquered Cicily. All in all,if EU continue with 'leaders' like this, Monty Python will be forgetten forever...
She is a war monger with no military forces at present in Estonia. Thinking her cruddy little country will sit back, not take casualties while the "big countries of NATO" come in and drive Russia from the Baltic. Another Nikki Haley or Jacinta Ahern - women 'leader' of no clout demanding others step up.
@@grahamcook9289 Her grand grandfather was a nat si, her father was a communist for 20 years, then he switched to nat sis and demolished Red Army monuments in Estonia in 2007. She had a business with her husband with Russia just a year ago. B/c of that she was asked to leave by Estonians, she refused. She is an average politician in EU.
"According to the 2021 Estonian Population Census they account for 374 038 residents, which is 27.4% of the population as a whole, and include Russians (22.5%), Ukrainians (4.1%), and Belarusians (0.8%)." So why isn't Russian an official language of Estonia on an equal basis with Estonian? It doesn't even occur to this journo to ask. He's useless.
She says she hates the oppression her family suffered under the Soviets but her father had a good position with the government and there is a photo of her sitting on the arm of a sofa her father sits on in a room full of beautiful furniture. Doesn't appear to be so oppressed to me back then.
And her Papa was a big honcho in the Communist Party of Estonia before changing over to Media. She IS part of the oligarchy and ready tosell everything to stay there, and thus basically a perfect fit to sub mediocre Western leadership in general. In short a total Nothing-Burger a lot of fluff and blustering.
She is a great Prime Minister, but would be the worst top Diplomat the EU could have. My God! someone that profeses hate towards one country and that does not consider diplomacy and advocates for peaceful solutions should never be hired as the EU Foreign Affairs chief. What would it be next? bring the EU into war against Russia? Against China? Against anyone she dislikes? She should either remain as Estonia PM, which btw I think she is amazing for that job, or as the defence advisory member of Ursula von der Leyen. She is NOT A DIPLOMAT
She simply understand russia and russians. And russians understand only brute force and will deceive you with lies, then attack, like in 24th of February. Unless you are one of those geniuses that think russia was provoked.
The interviewer is misogynistic. You wouldn't ask a male leader in a million years if his children feel scared. Yet somehow he felt it important to ask not one, but several questions about her motherhood and her children. As if being a mother is all that this woman is.
Are there few cases in the world history when alliances fell apart under the influence of various internal and external factors, including corrupt leadership?
Yes, the democracy factor is of paramount importance. Apart from that, if the attack is a justified reaction to the aggressed ally's irresponsible/stupid actions or provocations, the other allies have the right to virtually do nothing. NATO's Article 5 was very cleverly drafted by the US Senate.
About that "we should not poking a bear" narration from some Western politicians. They don't seem to understand that this bear is not aggressive because he's afraid, he'a aggressive be he's HUNGRY. You're poking him by smelling good, and he knows you're around.
What a nice woman to talk for days!! Very far sighted and intelligent. She's able foresee very powerful Estonia ruling the world from now onwards. She should be ruling Russia not Putin. What is Russia! look at how big Estonia's Vision for the world for next 5 years.
What would have happend if the UKraine had remained politically neutral and not moved to break with the post WW2 agreement to maintain aterritorial buffer between Russia and Nato in Europe. Would Russia have invaded the Ukraine at all?
Russia always intended to invade Ukraine who wanted to be independent and live their lives away from a terrorist state .They think Ukraine is part of Russia which it is not. Putler made a big mistake invading Ukraine thought it would be easy how deluded this crazy despot is
1. Strength is a deterrent factor for aggressor. 2. We have to control our step to not repeating world war. 3. We must respect democratic mechanisms, generating various opinions including delays on military supports. 4. Not too optimistic, nor too pessimistic. 5. We need to show ambiguous strategy to confuses enemy.
Please remind especially point 2 ! And your last point, sorry to say, fits only to military but not to politics - in politics it means dangerous gambling !
Shy is speaking BS. And how is it fair- men have to fight and die and woman who doesn't have her skin in the game is ruling? If only men have to fight, then only men have to rule. If women want to rule, women have to fight.
Please, please, can we clone you so many countries can have you for their leader, women conscription--teach them medical, logistics, repair of vehicles, weapons. In times of need all can do something to help and preparation is sound planning A B C.. Come to nz and lead us, we have not had a good leader for many ,many decades.
Putinists have abundance of bombs and other ammunition? I doubt it strongly. That's why you use 3t bombs and are buying shells and projectiles in N.Korea and Iran? Not to have casualties among civilians? you are either a troll or alike.
"In future we will know what was the right decision now". We are already 2 years and more into the war and all together 10 years and more into the whole thing. Was it good to overthrow Janukovic? Was it good not to respect Minsk agreements? Was it good to push Ukraine to NATO? Was it good ignore Istanbul talks? Was it good to impose sanctions on Russia? Was it good to ignore terrorist attack on Nordstream? Was this all good for ordinary EU citizens?
And was it a good idea to try to take Kyev in 2 weeks? Was it good for ordinary Russians? Was it a good idea for the Germans to invade Poland in 1939? Was it a good idea for the USSR to help Hitler?
@@eddyerle3338 Russians can ask these questions to them if it was worth it for them. I am asking these questions to EU leaders which are not even voted to their positions like Kaja Kallas. I dont remember voting for her.
@@peterzeman2749, yes, given relationships between the EU and Ukraine. It gave (NS2) Putin green light from Germany to invade Ukraine. Was it beneficial for Germany?
She will not be at any front. Anyone with a brain would have stopped the coup already in 2014 or at least admitted that it was a terrible and stupid thing to do. There is no way we in the west would ever had recognized the new gouverment if Russia would back a coup in the same way. also no even talk about Ukraine joining Nato.
Wow! What a brilliant, well spoken, PM Estonia is blessed to have... I wish the same could be said about Canada. We're stuck with a spoiled rich kid who can't speak clearly as his father could and junior has no insight into anything. Canada's spending on NATO is pathetic and IMO it could be fixed by a true leader.
Charisma, beauty and intelligence in action. Mesmerising to behold and to listen to. The lad interviewing her is just too casual and disinterested, reading the questions off his ipad as though it was a laundry list. No engagement with the speaker, the subject or the audience. How times change, CH4 used to be incisive, intelligent and engaged. I hope that Kaja got something out of this, but I doubt it.
An Estonian here. In the comments there are so many people praising Kaja Kallas for being insightful and smart about Russia. You should realize that our PM is not that exceptional among other Estonians. Of course, she has better speaking skills, but overall what she is saying about Russia, is general knowledge in Estonia. In fact, most of us have been waiting several decades for the West to finally see Russia’s true colors. When our former president TH Ilves warned the Finnish president Halonen about Russia, she idamaised it as estonians being “neurotic and russophobic”. It is bittersweet to see it finally happening, because thousands of innocent people have died and suffered for this to happen. What you people in the West need to realize is that russians are really not like the westerners and europeans. They may look like it, but they truly are VERY different.
From Ontario, Canada, it's crystal clear the Russians are THE PROBLEM GLOBALLY and that many EU member states have been trying to flag "us" for years... but just like an addict doesn't have an issue until they realize it for themselves, I would say the same holds true regarding everyone wanting to believe Russia had changed after the collapse of the USSR. But "we" were all wrong and it's time "we" throw away "our" rose coloured glasses and get tuff. I believe all dual RU and BY passport holders must be given a short ultimatum: keep your RU & BY passport and leave our liberal democratic countries OR relinquish your RU passport and openly denounce RU.... just like Garry Kasparov has done. Image what a wonderful world this would be if Russia focused on doing good for mankind. Slava Ukraini.
Nope, I disagree. They (RU) are different, but all mankind is also basically the same. Telling that they are somehow different and therefore they need to be defeated is the big time error. We need peace, not war and need to listen what Russian politicians are telling us, discuss it and find the solution. All other is just warmongering! It looks like nobody discusses history anymore and history can tell what happens when some strong elite (state, union) wants to conquer other strong elite (state, union). We are now living liberal world, making our own money and living very superficial lives without deep insights on things like history and mutual understanding. If someone goes other way, we need to defeat him, cancel him, that's the best what politicians think about the Russia... and China is next. Who are they fooling?!
A Polish friend of mine said the same thing about the Russians about 10 years ago. Being a westerner who lived during the Soviet Union then outlived it , I didn't take him too seriously. Something quite sinister lurks in the Russian DNA. I'd like to say Putin would never be so stupid as to directly attack nato, but frankly the toxic mix of his ultra--obedient government and his own alzheimer's could breed some very, very rash decisions.
Here in Finland the universal male conscription increases national cohesion at the very individual level like nothing else. A bunch of Finnish guys previously unknown to each other meets on a job site. Military vocabulary and jokes about it will fly around basically immediately.
Deutschland hat wirklich nicht genug mit seinen Ressourcen gemacht, es hätte bessere Reden und bessere Programme geben können. Sie hatten wirklich die Ressourcen, um mehr zu tun. Sie haben etwas getan, aber es reicht ihrer vermeintlichen Bedeutung in der Welt nicht wirklich aus. Sie haben nicht einmal die „Taurus“-Systeme geschickt, als es nötig war.. Sie hätten besser über die Bevölkerung nachdenken können.
@@j.m.7715 Putin is genious compared to what we got and if you think Russia will ever have a center liberal xenophobic leader so that Kajas dream of breaking up Russia come throu you are dead wrong. They know of our intentions and are outplaying us badly, the only question is how many our leaders are ready to sacrifice in an already lost battle.🤡
She wanted to be the NATO leader but she scared the Americans because of her Russophobia. So now they made her the foreign policy Czar of the EU and that is better only by degree or two. She is not a diplomat.
@@11235but But still stupid ....It's understandable that former Soviet Union satellites have an axe to grind with their former master , something Washington craftily exploits.
"Decolonizing Russia", breaking it up so that one may exploit the small parts has been the plan all along. It's all in the open, on the same level as the synthetic sexual identities agenda. Conferences and everything.
😂 NATO troops have been in continuous wars for 40 years. China is the most biggest and inexperienced army in the world. They only got simulation training. No veterancy at all.
@@Joey-ct8bmNATO, never had a war like its happening in Ukraine . Its one thing to fight shepherds with sandals and completely different to fight in Ukraine . Ukraine need to teach NATO how to fight , indeed .
@@raynorthedge5722 NATO💯 We from india and Asian, African countries never forget about history of west in lebia, iraq, Serbia, Somalia, Yemen, gaza, afghanistan, Vietnam etc
@@roylidstone3678 Why? This woman is a politician from an insignificant country whose only statements so far we know are anti-Russian. Is it so incredible that I consider her unfit to be EU leader? Is it so unbelievable that I fear for my country and for Europe from a conflict with Russia?
@@JohntheHun I suspect you are Russian or a Putin fan ? Allow me to explain to you further: In the EU and NATO, all nation members are supposed to be equal, thats how and why it works. Only bully states (like Russia) seem to think that only the biggest, most aggressive nation only have a voice. Estonia isn't insignificant because it's a smaller nation under the alliance. She has voice, an intellect and a clear and present understanding of the dangers of Russia both to Ukraine but also to her nation and others along the boarder and to Europe has a whole, which in turn, affects the world and the US. So yes, it is incredible you feel her unfit simply on the grounds that she is the leader of smaller nation that you feel is ok to bully. If you 'fear' for your country (which is what exactly ? Hun was a word used in the world wars about German soldiers, and Nazi's) then if you are really European, you should absolutely fear a war with Russia and any inaction, inability to STOP Russia in Ukraine could very well lead to a full war in Europe as Putin will not stop and subjecting 44 millions Ukrainians to his brutal rule. If you don't want to see European (Ukraine is in Europe!) raped, murdered, tortured and controlled by Russia, then The West needs to FULLY support Ukraine in stopping Russia, thus preventing an all out war with Russia. Thankfully for other Europeans, Ukrainians are dying everyday battling and being bombed by the monster Russia and by doing so,, is avoiding a direct war with Russia. Putin is a Dictator, he is obsessed with empire, don't be fooled in to think if Ukraine falls we can all go back to blindly missing what he's up to.
They are, which is why they have unleashed the KremTrolls on her. Her country is just one small part of a the bigger jigsaw. If Russia shits on her country she has a lot of friends and many of them have a better economy than Russia and together their militaries dwarf Russia and their population combined also dwarves Russia. With or without the US bring it on. This Russia will cease to exist.
Well said ! They should be very careful how they treat the Russian speaking peeps there ! Let's face it. NATO would not be able to defend the Baltic states and who wants World War 3 in the first place because of a fucked off and corrupt society like Ukraine is. Not my words but the words of Andrew Milburn, the founder of Mozart group....
