"Even if Estonia spent everything it had on defense, it would be hard pressed to fend off Russia, which has a million men under arms and another 2 million in reserve..."
Quote Details
Added by wikiquote-import-bot
Unverified quote
0 likes
Original Language: English
Available Languages (1)
Sources
Jay Nordlinger, "Tiny, Faraway Countries and Us" (20 July 2018), National Review Online
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Estonia
Revision History
No revisions have been submitted for this quote.
Categories
Estonia
15 quotes on TrueQuotesView all quotes by Estonia →
Related Quotes
"Online voting — however you vote — is not the main attack vector"
"Putin has every incentive to stir up trouble in Estonia, because it is the point of maximum contradiction between the…"
"In the course of centuries never have the Estonian people lost their desire for independence. From generation to gene…"
"Estonians don't do "in a cold panic". Phlegmatic, slow, non-reactive, yes. Panic, no."
"Ants Laaneots, Estonian general and member of the Parliament’s Defense Committee, has his own explanation for the bla…"
"More than twenty years after the restoration of Estonia’s independence, the opinion that time would automatically res…"
"We value our independence, clearly and dearly, and I’m sure that we will put up resistance, come hell or high water."
"Around the same time, communism in Central and Eastern Europe finally fell, but its economic rivalry with capitalism …"
"We'll be here for Estonia. We will be here for Latvia. We will be here for Lithuania. You lost your independence once…"
"There was a hierarchy of material conditions in the communist world. The Yugoslavs, with the closest commercial links…"