Macron suggested that NATO should send troops on the ground. He was laughed at and he fell silent. But now an unlikely hero emerges with the same war cry.
In a scene straight out of a B-grade action flick, French President Emmanuel Macron turned heads at a gathering in Paris, suggesting Western boots might hit the ground in Ukraine. Surrounded by European bigwigs, Macron’s pitch had the thrills but lacked the backing, making for a spectacle of strategic ambiguity – a fancy term for decision-making paralysis. As Macron passionately argued against a Russian victory, attendees, including German Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Polish President Andrzej Duda, seemed more inclined to nap than clap.
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Macron’s action-hero moment didn’t quite translate into the coalition of the willing he might have hoped for. The idea seemed to fizz faster than flat champagne, with leaders from Germany to Poland and beyond quickly distancing themselves from the notion of sending troops, opting instead for a stance that might be summed up as “Let’s not, and say we did.”
Even Russia’s Dmitry Peskov got in on the act, warning of dire consequences with the gravitas of a Bond villain. The collective Western response? A mix of backpedaling, clarifications, and outright rejections, suggesting Macron’s rallying cry might be better suited to fiction than foreign policy.
But Estonia’s Iron-Willed Prime Minister Kaja Kallas was watching Macron with Sympathetic eyes. She knew what he meant and what it meant for Europe’s future. Kallas, who in the past had expressed interest in becoming NATO’s next secretary-general, among other things appeared extremely distraught. She has been hurting Russia in her own ways by demolishing Soviet era monuments to erase its Soviet past. An act that earned her an arrest warrant from Russia.
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Now that France was rejected, down and out, flames jutted from Kallas’ nostrils as she declared WAR on Russia. And things are going to turn very bad for Vladimir Putin. A regime change, complete annihilation, everything is now on cards.
Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas said “everything” is on the table to help Ukraine beat Putin, days after French President Emmanuel Macron caused a storm by hinting that sending ground troops to help Kyiv was a possibility.
An Estonia Vs Russia war, who would have thought. Imagine, if you will, a David vs. Goliath rematch, only this time, David has misplaced his sling, and Goliath is not just a giant but commands a military behemoth with the firepower to make Mars reconsider its hostility. The stage is set not in the Valley of Elah but in the landscape of Eastern Europe, where Estonia squares off against the Russian bear.
Imagine Prime Minister Kallas, standing atop Tallinn’s medieval walls, declaring Estonia’s bold stance. Meanwhile, in Moscow, the announcement causes President Putin to spit out his morning tea in disbelief, wondering if his translation app malfunctioned.
On paper, the match-up reads like a typographical error. Russia, with its 1.32 million active personnel, stares across the battlefield at Estonia’s valiant 7,700. The skies, dominated by Russia’s 4,255 aircraft, contrast starkly with Estonia’s modest fleet, where pilots must take turns due to a shortage of helicopters.
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Russia’s parade of 14,777 tanks will face an awkward silence on the Estonian side—because the concept of “tank” hasn’t reached there.
The naval showdown isn’t much of a contest either; Russia’s vast fleet sends ripples across the Baltic, while Estonia’s 10 vessels might adopt a strategy best described as “hide and seek.”
I am sure she has grown up hearing quotes like “It’s not the size of the dog that matters in the fight but the size of fight in the dog that matters”. But it’s not a fight between a Chihuahua and a Bullmastiff.
Estonians are good, gentle people and Kaja Kallas shouldn’t embarrass them any further. Kaja Kallas should stick to breaking monuments, she is quite good at it.