@lena_tallinn · 21 Jan 2026 · 19:15
Everyone in Brussels is very brave this week about the Americans leaving.
I live four hundred kilometres from Kaliningrad. My yard has cranes and my grandfather had a very different flag over this shipyard.
You may all be right about the principle. Please understand that some of us are doing arithmetic tonight and the arithmetic is not about principle.
Marek, from Tartu: yes. Every word.
The people posting "good riddance" tonight all live at least a thousand kilometres further west than we do. It is very easy to be principled about a shield when you are standing behind two other people.
Host nations revoke diplomatic clearance for American tanker sorties at Ramstein and Mildenhall, and close western European airspace to any aircraft staging toward the Arctic.…