Airiin, get your gun
THE morning after celebrating her husband’s birthday earlier this month, Barbel Salumae rose at 6am, donned fatigues, and made for a compound outside Tallinn to practice her marksmanship. “I tell my children it’s my hobby,” says Ms Salumae, a member of Estonia’s volunteer Kaitseliit, or Defence League (EDL). “I can’t tell them I have to train because maybe there is war coming.”
Such talk once struck many outside the three ex-Soviet Baltic states as hyperbolic. Then came Russia’s annexation of Crimea in 2014. Now, with American president-elect Donald Trump having questioned commitments to longtime allies, Estonia, Latvia and …read more
Source: The Economist
