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Col. Jaak Tarien, Cdr, Estonian Air Force: Putin wants to dominate Europe
[Mil.com] Estonia may be one of NATO's smallest members, but its air force commander had the strongest words for Russian aggression in Ukraine at a gathering of allied military leaders.Russian President Vladimir Putin's "war against Ukraine did not really come as a surprised to us," Col. Jaak Tarien, commander of the Estonian Air Force, told an audience at the U.S. Air Force Association's 2014 Air and Space Conference. Speaking with a group of NATO military leaders, Tarien reminded how Soviet Russia launched a similar operation in Estonia in 1924. "Soviet Russia sent infiltrators to our young republic. They tried to rally local people to demonstrate against our government," he said. The Estonian people did not want to go along. "So on the night of Dec. 1, they tried to take over key government buildings and take over the post office was the key to their success because then they were supposed to send a telegraph to Moscow asking, in the name of a newly formed government, to send in assistance troops which were already forming up on our eastern border," Tarien said. "Sounds familiar doesn't it? The Estonia people did not allow this to happen. Posted by: Besoeker 2014-09-18 |
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