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Feb 14 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Fun fact: 14 February isn’t just for lovers in Estonia & Finland. It’s for celebrating friends.

Head sõbrapäeva / Happy Friends Day.

Tag friends of the Baltic countries below - however famous or not - & we can all thank them for their #goodbaltictakes!
Happy Friends Day to all the people of @Ukraine. We owe you so much for standing up for freedom and we know our friendship will continue to grow far beyond your victory.
Happy Friends Day to all the countries that refused to recognise the illegal annexation of the Baltic countries, especially the @StateDept & @FCDOGovUK for continuing to recognise our diplomats in exile, helping us assert our legal continuity.
Happy Friends Day to all the people of Iceland & @MFAIceland for being the first to recognise the restored independence of each Baltic country.

Both the Baltics & Iceland have streets & public squares dedicated to each other.
Happy Friends Day to @edwardlucas, a long time champion of the Baltic countries.

He received Lithuania’s first visa after re-independence, as well as Estonia’s first e-Residency. He celebrated the end of the Soviet Union in a sauna here & now has his own one at home in England!
Happy Friends Day to @StewartMcDonald & @MartinJDocherty, both do a lot to support relations with the Baltics, as well as Ukraine.

Martin is co-chair of the friends of Estonia group in the UK Parliament & we’ve spotted him wearing his Estonian tie while speaking in Parliament!
Here’s something cool. When @ragnars opened Lift99 coworking space in Tallinn, he dedicated each room to international friends who helped us become the countries we are today …including an Icelandic people & an @edwardlucas room.

And you can see who the toilet is dedicated to. Image

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Feb 16
The Baltics are often described as countries that ‘gained independence in 1991’.

That language isn’t quite right though. Let’s talk about why language here matters. 🧵… ImageImage
Estonia, Latvia, & Lithuania each proclaimed themselves as independent republics in 1918 and - after then winning their respective wars of independence that followed - cemented that existence in international law.
This was the culmination of a longer period of National Awakening movements, driven primarily by language.

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Feb 11
We need to treat vatniks & orcs with more respect.

(Ok, an absurd clickbaity opener here but bear with me).

Specifically, we need to treat them with the agency that they deny us and recognise they are absolutely responsible for the crimes they support and commit.

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Particularly in the West, too many people overstate the degree to which these people “don’t understand what’s really going on”. They’re often excused as mere brainwashed victims themselves. If only we could open their eyes to the reality of Russia’s crimes.

This is nonsense.
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No one is like: “Wait, what?! I thought it was just a special operation to protect Russian speakers or something.”
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Feb 10
“Germany should just make a deal with Russia to divide up Ukraine.”

Jeez, what kind of person would give that take?

Oh… It’s a former Nazi tank sol...Image
I get that the journalist is just collecting and sharing memories and perspectives (that he doesn’t agree with here), but still…

Read the room.
Then again, his own criticism is just that their politicians negotiating away Ukraine’s territory is naive “wishful” thinking, implying it would be good if it could happen. Yikes.
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Feb 9
Journalist Seymour Hersh says the US bombed the Nordstream pipeline in the Baltic Sea.

Let’s talk about why his blog article concluding this is really bad journalism …and he should know it.

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Firstly, his article is based on a single anonymous source. Any journalist or editor knows that’s weak. You can justify publishing it as a claim in some circumstances …but Hersh’s decision to write the article as a firm conclusion based on that one source is baffling.
At no point does Hersh try to weigh up the credibility of the source or even consider the possibility that he could be getting fed misinformation from that one source. That would be journalism.
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Feb 8
The Baltics know Russia too well.

Their sober analysis - dismissed for decades as paranoia - has proven to be 🎯.

Estonia's latest Foreign Intelligence assessment has never been more widely read.

...but, if you found that interesting, there's something else worth reading. 🧵
Estonia's Ministry of Defence released its own straight-talking report a few days ago on the myths & lessons of Russia's war in Ukraine.

You can read it here, but I'll give a summarised overview in this thread. kaitseministeerium.ee/en/mythsandles….

Only #GoodBalticTakes, of course.
"In Russia’s view, success in Ukraine serves as a major stepping stone for reaching further goals. Russia’s long-term strategic aims remain unchanged: to dissolve the rules-based world order."
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Feb 6
Who are these “experts” representing Baltic public opinion in an article elevated to the top of @googlenews today?

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Representing Estonia is Sputnik journalist Allan Hantsom, a prolific Kremlin propagandist who argues that Estonia is historically Russian. He has been convicted of destroying property and also inciting racial hatred.
Then there’s Maksim Reva, another Kremlin propagandist …who actually lives in Russia. He was a key organiser of the 2007 riots in Estonia and received a medal from Russia for his hybrid warfare work against Ukraine. He is barred from entering Estonia.
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