Sunday, April 27, 2008

"There were no official reprisals" amid "the tensions with Russia and continual debate about Russian speakers at home"

There were no official reprisals, but trade flows from Russia fell…

Saying Estonia's action showed disrespect to the fighters of Fascism, Russia retaliated with steps that dampened trade flows and hurt Estonia's economy.
While trying to be "fair" and nuanced, MSM-style, in a Reuters article on Estonia's "wrestling with Russian speakers" in the IHT, one that professes to recap the conflict over the removal of Stalin's World War II statue, Patrick Lannin totally and deliberately forgets the cyberspace-war that Moscow conducted against Tallinn in the wake of the decision to remove said statue — widely reported as the very first war of its kind.
There were no official reprisals, but trade flows from Russia fell…
That (apart for some details of the fall in trade statistics) is all that we learn from the New York Times' sister publication:
There were no official reprisals, but trade flows from Russia fell…
Read anything about the home-truths of the peace-through-tyrant-appeasement left lately?

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