>>If you understand Russian I strongly recommend you watch the video of the Estonian official laying out how Russia is seen in that neighborhood.

Even if you don't speak Russian.

Click the YouTube icon (view at youtube)

Once at Youtube, click the gear (settings), then 'subtitles', pick 'autotranslate', then the language you want to read in. Turn on captions and... there you go - captions in language of your choice.

Stefan's right. It's worth a watch, particularly Estonia's situation with the RF being similar to Israel surrounded by hostile Arab states.

PS: love the Rocky&Bullwinkle reference and the ‘molded’ map of Middle Earth. The ones in the books (which I was semi-obsessed with back in the 60s) weren’t that different and given that the thinking in the 60s was that Tolkien had written this about the West vs the USSR, there was a certain amount of map-comparing to see where shorelines might be similar. Kudos to the map creator