Estonia prepares insurgent contingency against Russia

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http://www.democraticunderground.com/10028262871

Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (12,427 posts)

Spooked by Russia, Tiny Estonia Trains a Nation of Insurgents

TURI, Estonia — Her face puffy from lack of sleep, Vivika Barnabas peered down at the springs, rods and other parts of a disassembled assault rifle spread before her.

At last, midway through one of this country’s peculiar, grueling events known as patrol competitions, she had come upon an easy task.

Already, she and her three teammates had put out a fire, ridden a horse, identified medicinal herbs from the forest and played hide-and-seek with gun-wielding “enemies” in the woods at night.

By comparison, this would be easy. She knelt in the crinkling, frost-covered grass of a forest clearing and grabbed at the rifle parts in a flurry of clicks and snaps, soon handing the assembled weapon to a referee.

“We just have to stay alive,” Ms. Barnabas said of the main idea behind the Jarva District Patrol Competition, a 24-hour test of the skills useful for partisans, or insurgents, to fight an occupying army, and an improbably popular form of what is called “military sport” in Estonia.

The competitions, held nearly every weekend, are called war games, but are not intended as fun. The Estonian Defense League, which organizes the events, requires its 25,400 volunteers to turn out occasionally for weekend training sessions that have taken on a serious hue since Russia’s incursions in Ukraine two years ago raised fears of a similar thrust by Moscow into the Baltic States.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/spooked-by-russia-tiny-estonia-trains-a-nation-of-insurgents/ar-AAjDilP?li=BBnbfcL&ocid=edgsp

LanternWaste (26,194 posts)
5. for more than 40 years Estonia was part and parcel of the Soviet Union

Oddly enough, for more than 40 years Estonia was part and parcel of the Soviet Union. I advertise that obvious and well-known bit of history to you because you seem completely unaware of it, and the context it places onto current Estonian reactions to Moscow in your rush to trivialize and minimize them for a Halloween giggle and a narrative.

^^^ The cluebat strikes home...

Not one of the DUmmies makes the connection between what is going on in Estonia and the 2A.

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Oddly enough, for more than 40 years Estonia was part and parcel of the Soviet Union.

They were.  Entirely unwillingly, of course.