Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military presence in Ukraine

Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre... by jacquesm on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:33AM (#29578485)

The degree with which the Russian propaganda regarding vaccine safety has permeated the Russian populations in Estonia and Lithuania (and Latvia as well) has opened my eyes considerably into how strongly connected those communities are still to Russia. They are Russian first, and Latvian, Lithuanian and Estonian second.

Now, Lithuania has only a relatively small number of ethnic Russians compared to the rest of the population, and in Estonia the it's somewhere in the middle (15% or so). Latvia is roughly 50/50.

And yes, the governments of those countries are well aware of the risk, but that is not the same as not having that risk in the first place.

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Re:Russian court accidentally confirmed Russian military pre... by atlasunshrugged on Thursday December 16, 2021 @09:37AM (#29578532)

Yeah sure, but the risk of taking a vaccine and deciding not to take it or holding up a sign outside of a hospital (I mean, plenty of hesitancy in the US too with no or very little Russian propaganda) is super different than taking up arms to support little green men coming across the border and I don't think really comparable. If we were back in '07 with the situation in Estonia, maybe, but now I'm super skeptical.

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