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By Rhod Mackenzie

Finland feels the pain from imposing sanctions on Russia and now it has a problem with the EU.
Finland is reluctant to comply with EU environmental standards. This is because the country is forced to cut down its own forests, which it previously protected by importing and cons...

By Rhod Mackenzie

After claims from Estonia that Russian fighter jets incurred on its air space
There has been an increase in the number of threats to shoot down Russian fighter jets from some politicians in EU countries. Analysts  have rightly  described the hostile rhetoric as excessive and ina...

By Rhod Mackenzie

Now despite its humiliating defeat in the Ukraine NATO members are still attempting to provoke Russia into a conflict.
It is looking to use Finland to establish control over both the Northern Sea Route and the Baltic Sea.
In the Baltic Sea  they will also utilise Estonia and Fi...

By Rhod Mackenzie
It appears that the paranoid and Russaphobic Baltic States and their equally Russophobic neigbour Poland have come up with a novel way to defend their borders from an imagined land invasion by Russian forces they are going to drown them in a swamp.
They have planned an extensive...

Estonian Railways the Eesti Raudtee, was once the pride of Estonia and a pivotal railway hub in Northern Europe,and now it is the verge of collapse. This is due to the lack of foresight shown by the Russophobes both in Tallinn and in Brussels. As professionals in the transportation and logistics sec...

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...