If that's not what she means, then what does she mean? Earlier in her panel comments ( here, at the 45:00 mark), she dismissed fears of nuclear war with Russia by saying that "it just cannot be" that countries with nuclear weapons are "beyond the law." Just like that: it is intolerable that a country with nuclear weapons can do what it likes with impunity, therefore the West must behave as if Russia does not have the power to incinerate every Western city with the push of a button. Kaja Kallas is calling for total war on Russia. You know that, right? How the hell does one get into the position to behave that way? You have to utterly conquer a nation. The only way we can have lasting peace, she says, is by re-educating the Russians and changing them. In her answer, she calls not only for a postwar Nuremberg trial for Russian leaders (she was explicit about that at an earlier point in the discussion), but also here for a vast de-Putinification program in postwar Russia, to re-educate the Russian people about their nation's crimes. I've cued the video to the question she was asked in a panel discussion, and her answer: watch it here. More on this in a moment.īut first, Twitter brought to my attention some extraordinary comments at the Munich Security Conference made by Kaja Kallas, the leader of Estonia. The fact is, the longer this war goes on, the worse it is for Ukraine, and the greater the risk of a wider war. We have to deal in what is possible, not in what is ideal. Of course this is unacceptable to the Ukrainians, who want the Russians off their land. I believe that Ukraine surrendering the Russian-owned areas of Donbass and Crimea and accepting Finlandization in exchange for peace - a peace that can somehow depend on far more than Russia's word - would be an acceptable price to end this war. I believe Russia should get out of Ukraine. To bring you up to speed: I believe Russia's invasion of Ukraine was wrong.
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