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98 - The Geopolitics of Estonia

The Red Line

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Estonia: A Starbound Trap

Estonia has taken a hard anti-Russia position in the war on Ukraine, with Estonia even becoming the highest per capita donor over any state toward the war. By pushing away Russia, Estonia is seen Swedish and Finnish banks gain larger influence throughout the country. Estonian politics have used the opportunity to carry out new language laws against Russian populations within the country. So what lies ahead of Estonia? Will we see fundamental problems when the country finally bubbling to the surface? Placing NATO's northern flank in a precarious, undefined limbo; those are just some of the questions we're going to be tackling here today.

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