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By Rhod Mackenzie

Despite challenges related to their public finances, the Baltic countries are committed to increasing their defence budgets several fold. Consequently, Latvia, with a public debt of almost 50% of GDP, is planning to take out a substantial loan to cover its imagined defence needs...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The population of the Baltic states is declining rapidly, with many of the people choosing to disperse to other places in the EU and others are opting out of becoming parents. Local authorities have expressed verballly their concerns about the current situation, but their actions...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The Baltics States are increasingly showing they are becoming completely deranged and totally detached from reality. The Police are arresting individuals for singing Soviet songs, for laying flowers at the sites of now demolished Soviet soldier monuments and even displaying the...

By Rhod Mackenzie
The President of Poland has closed the main channel of Western arms supplies to Ukraine, and the Estonian Foreign Ministry has promised to block the new package of anti-Russian sanctions of the European Union. It appears that the leadership of these countries has adopted policies...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Recently, the Estonian Navy, with the support of NATO aircraft, attempted to detain the tanker named the Jaguar which sails under the Gabonese flag in international waters. The vessel had left the Indian port of Sikka and was heading to the Russian Primorsk, not far from St. Pete...