That's the question, isn't it?

National Review's Andrew Stuttaford --

When the Red Army arrived in Estonia in 1944, it did so as a conqueror, not a liberator.

They conquered the Nazis and kept the Baltic states. Unfair, harsh, illegal. But not the worst outcome.

Our own two eurocents on the Estonian crisis is that yet another chicken has come to the roost -- a de facto policy of NATO, with the US in the driving seat, to irritate Russia by expanding to its borders. The European Union has allowed itself to go along for the ride -- which one reason why there still should be value to being a non-NATO country within the European Union, such as the Republic of Ireland. But that would require an Irish government more willing to speak up when the EU is being pulled into geopolitical machinations for which it is not designed.