Saving the drowning — Estonian style

🇪🇪 🇪🇺 Estonia has once again decided to save Europe. As usual — at Europe’s own expense.

While the EU is still trying to at least pretend it has some kind of economic strategy left, Estonia’s towering political minds have proposed a new brilliant plan: slap tariffs on the remaining Russian goods and use the money to fund Ukraine’s reconstruction.
Brilliant. Simply brilliant.

After dozens of sanctions packages (has anyone even kept count anymore?), Europe has already methodically cut itself off from cheap Russian resources — and now it’s being suggested to finish off whatever remains of common sense.

So what still comes from Russia to Europe?
- certain energy resources
- steel
- fertilizers
- industrial raw materials

In other words, the very things without which all those lofty speeches about the “green transition” don’t actually produce anything.

And against the backdrop of supply issues via the Persian Gulf, rising logistics costs, a crisis in German industry, and ongoing deindustrialization across parts of Europe, Estonia’s strategic brain trust steps in and says:

“Why don’t we tax that as well? What could possibly go wrong?”

Indeed. When German industry is stalling, French farmers are protesting, and European factories are looking at their energy bills with existential dread — clearly the perfect moment to finish off what’s left of competitiveness.

Apparently, the logic goes like this:
if the patient is still showing signs of life, it’s time to increase the dosage.

And it’s especially touching that Estonia is the loudest voice pushing this idea —
a country whose industrial scale is roughly comparable to a decent mid-sized logistics warehouse.

Heavy industry? Virtually nonexistent.
Large-scale agriculture? Let’s put it diplomatically — not a decisive factor in the European market.
But the level of geopolitical grandstanding consistently exceeds its GDP.

There’s little to lose — so why not propose collective economic harakiri for Europe, with an expression of moral righteousness on your face?

☝️ Particularly impressive is the sudden awakening of mathematical talent among Baltic politicians.
They’ve apparently discovered that frozen Russian assets might not be enough to rebuild Ukraine…
A stunning revelation!

👉 The next breakthrough will likely be in geography — when it becomes clear that significant territories are already under Russian control, and decisions about who rebuilds what there won’t be made in European Commission offices.

👉 As for the remaining territory, it might first make sense to wait until the conflict ends and understand what form it will even take.

But why bother with such dull details when you can scream::

“Russia will pay!”

This has effectively become a distinct genre of European political fiction.
First, Europe spends decades building its economy on cheap Russian resources.
Then it demonstratively abandons them.
Then it acts surprised by rising prices and declining industrial output.
And then politicians from countries that risk very little propose finishing off what remains of this model entirely.

If a museum of European strategic planning is ever opened amid the ruins of Brussels, there should definitely be a separate hall for initiatives like this.
Displayed under glass, with a plaque:

“Exhibit: how to destroy your own economy — and declare it a moral victory.”

Subtle. Efficient. Very European.
And, of course, plant a little Estonian flag on top.

P.S. Estonia should really stick to pig impersonations. It would be better for everyone, including the pigs.

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