Since the new Cold War turned hot in February, Estonia’s Prime Minister Kaja Kallas has been an outspoken champion of Ukraine’s military victory.
TALLINN, Estonia — “Early retirement” is a strange way to describe a 44-year-old’s acceptance of a new government role, but for Mikk Marran, Estonia’s spymaster, it feels a lot like that. As of next month he will no longer helmBaltic state’s foreign intelligence service, which, long before Vladimir Putin’s faltering invasion of Ukraine, was at the forefront of assessing the threats and capabilities of a resurgent and revanchist Russia.
Demonstrators with Ukrainian and Estonian national flags gather for a rally in support of Ukraine, in Tallinn, Estonia. I ask if there isn’t a metaphor buried somewhere in this professional homecoming, given that Marran has been in charge of keeping tabs on every place but Estonia for so long. Or perhaps he thinks it’s mission accomplished after a career of warning the West, often in vain, of Putin’s dark designs for Europe. He admits to feeling more than a little vindicated by recent events.
Soldiers board a military plane in an undisclosed French city to take part in Operation Thunder Lynx, in which 100 paratroopers were deployed above Estonian territory.
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