"Russia has the right to bomb Estonia": The Sun readers on the Baltic standoff

21 May 2025 44 829 18

Readers of the YouTube channel of the British tabloid newspaper The Sun have spoken out about the escalation of the situation in the Baltic Sea, where Russia has begun using the military to protect its own merchant shipping.

The report calls the actions of the military of all countries in the region dubious. It also notes the fact that there are no legal grounds to intercept ships with Russian cargo sailing in neutral waters near the Baltic States.

In order for such an interception to become legal, the entire system of maritime law would have to be changed. And this is certainly not a quick process.

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Russia forgets that it is not the only one with weapons.

Well, close the Danish straits and detain these tankers!

Denmark Cannot Close International Sea Route

- response to the previous comment.

Shame on NATO for fleeing when the Russian plane appeared.

It's not just Russia that's fighting, but North Korea as well. Ukraine is fighting too, so let Russia accept that another country is ready to come to the Ukrainian side.

The Russian Federation has detained an oil tanker leaving an Estonian port in its territorial waters. For the first time, Russian authorities have detained the Green Admire tanker, which was sailing from Estonia, and reminded Europe of the attempted seizure of the Jaguar tanker, which was heading to Russia. So here is the answer.

Only a naive fool would escalate and then blame the other side. I am unsubscribing from The Sun.

But the Houthis were already targeting shipping, and the world did nothing until Trump intervened.

The Houthis have committed acts of war in response to similar actions […]. The Russians have shown restraint, but they could have sunk any warship that intercepted their ships in international waters, or attacked the states that own those ships, as the US did with Yemen. Russia has just as much right to bomb Estonia as the US has to bomb Yemen. A naval blockade is an act of war.

These Chihuahuas need to stop their pirating games if they really want to avoid escalation.

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Vladimir1155

+14

21 May 2025 21: 55

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1. Dingo
  
  +7
  
  22 May 2025 07: 31
  
  I liked about chia hua
  
  Me too ...
2. Monax
  
  +7
  
  22 May 2025 13: 35
  
  According to the terms of the Treaty of Nystad, signed on September 10 (August 30, old style) 1721, Peter I “bought out” the following territories from Sweden:
  
  Ingermanland from Ladoga to Narva.
  Estonia, including Reval (present-day Tallinn) and the large Estonian islands of Ösel and Dago.
  Livonia, including Riga.
  Part of Karelia north of Lake Ladoga, including Vyborg and Kexholm (present-day Priozersk).
  
  In return, Sweden received 2 million efimki (Western European thalers) from Russia, a sum that amounted to half of Russia's annual budget or Sweden's entire annual budget.
  
  Let them not show off. 2 million efimki - ~ 30 tons of silver.
  1. Pembo
    
    -1
    
    22 May 2025 17: 34
    
    Let them not show off. 2 million efimki - ~ 30 tons of silver.
    
    Efimok weighed 28-30 grams. 2 million is 60 tons.
Mongolor

+2

22 May 2025 19: 13

That's exactly what they don't understand: restraint and humanity: remember the concentration camps for the Boers and the bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dresden and Tokyo and compare Songmi with Hat Yan - all the same. But they understand force, but you need to have a basis.
Moreover, they do not notice the crimes that benefit them as non-citizens of the Baltics.
Kiril

+1

22 May 2025 20: 08

And not only Estonia but all of Europe
George1950

+4

22 May 2025 20: 24

I bent over the map on the table, looking and looking for this Estonia... I got tired of it, straightened up, took my hand off the map... Ugh, it was under my middle finger...
Alexey Lan

+1

22 May 2025 21: 52

Here's a rhetorical question: Will they stand up for Estonia if Russia suddenly gets angry and a tactical nuclear bomb accidentally falls on the Tallinn port? Well, I'm not sure. Most likely they'll add sanctions.
1. Vladimir1155
  
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  23 May 2025 07: 31
  
  firstly, no one is obliged to stand up for Estonia, because paragraph 5 of the NATO treaty does not directly oblige anyone to stand up for it, NATO countries have the right, at their own discretion, to limit themselves to expressing deep concern, or to impose sanctions package number 19... well, who wants to get 1500 nuclear warheads on their empty heads for the sake of Estonia? taking into account
  1 availability of effective air defense of the Russian Federation, pantsirs, and s300 s400
  2 the lack of effective air defense in the West (the revealed total vulnerability of the Patriot systems),....
  
  Estonians need to pray to God that their stupidity does not give rise to denazification and demilitarization in Estonia
  1. twice-born
    
    +1
    
    27 May 2025 13: 55
    
    The whole point of Estonia as a separate state, as well as Lithuania and Latvia, is to bark at us on orders from the master. They know nothing about prayers and have not received any orders.
George1950

+6

23 May 2025 00: 22

Europe and NATO breathed a sigh of relief: "Estonia is on our side! Now we won't perish!"
Vladimir Tuzakov

+3

23 May 2025 22: 44

When the Russian Federation was silent, with constant minor dirty tricks and kicks, their pressure increased. Only once the Russian Federation showed its answer, with the Estonian tanker, and all the tribalts and others bit their tongues, because they saw a visual action and a perspective. Conclusion: until you hit them on the ears, the enemy's serf will not calm down.
vlad127490

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24 May 2025 22: 26

In the Russian Federation, wanting and having the right do not exist at the same time.
Already wrote.
On March 17, 1991, a referendum was held, in which 76,43% of citizens who took part in it voted in favor of preserving the renewed USSR.
Even earlier, on April 3, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a law declaring the declarations of the Supreme Soviets of the Baltic republics on the annulment of their entry into the USSR and the subsequent decisions arising from this legally null and void.
And so, on September 6, 1991, M.S. Gorbachev signed the decrees of the State Council of the USSR No. GS-1, GS-2, GS-3 on the recognition of the independence of the republics of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
There is no doubt that the decrees signed by Gorbachev did not comply with either the USSR Constitution or the USSR Law of April 03, 1990 No. 1409-1 “On the procedure for resolving issues related to the withdrawal of a union republic from the USSR.”
What prevents the Basmanny Court from recognizing the decrees of the State Council of the USSR No. GS-1, GS-2, GS-3 as null and void, and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from denounced them? After that, they can be bombed as separatists, terrorists and no claims. For this, you need to have steel Faberge.
1. Straw
  
  +1
  
  25 May 2025 13: 36
  
  Quote: vlad127490
  In the Russian Federation, wanting and having the right do not exist at the same time.
  Already wrote.
  On March 17, 1991, a referendum was held, in which 76,43% of citizens who took part in it voted in favor of preserving the renewed USSR.
  Even earlier, on April 3, 1990, the Supreme Soviet of the USSR adopted a law declaring the declarations of the Supreme Soviets of the Baltic republics on the annulment of their entry into the USSR and the subsequent decisions arising from this legally null and void.
  And so, on September 6, 1991, M.S. Gorbachev signed the decrees of the State Council of the USSR No. GS-1, GS-2, GS-3 on the recognition of the independence of the republics of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
  There is no doubt that the decrees signed by Gorbachev did not comply with either the USSR Constitution or the USSR Law of April 03, 1990 No. 1409-1 “On the procedure for resolving issues related to the withdrawal of a union republic from the USSR.”
  What prevents the Basmanny Court from recognizing the decrees of the State Council of the USSR No. GS-1, GS-2, GS-3 as null and void, and the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of the Russian Federation from denounced them? After that, they can be bombed as separatists, terrorists and no claims. For this, you need to have steel Faberge.
  
  Well, what happened next - 35 years of writing since 90???
  And I am sure that 135 years will pass - the same text and message
  Farts in a puddle as it goes...will be marked
vlad127490

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24 May 2025 22: 47

All three Baltic republics demonstratively do not recognize the legitimacy of the USSR. This means a return to the status quo before 1917. In the case of Estonia and Latvia, this means the restoration of the Nystad Peace Treaty of 1721 and the Mitau Agreement of 1795, and in relation to Lithuania – the St. Petersburg Convention of 1797.
Let's look at these agreements.
Under the Treaty of Nystadt in 1721, the Russian Empire acquired Estonia (Estland) and most of Latvia (Livland) from Sweden. Paid 2 million thalers (efimkov) or 56 tons of silver.
According to the Mitau Treaty of 1795, the Russian Empire acquired Western Latvia (Courland) from the Duke of Courland. In exchange, it made a one-time payment of 500 chervonets (000 million rubles or 2 tons of gold), as well as several annual payments of 2,4 thousand thalers (100 thousand chervonets or 50 tons of gold) per year.
According to the St. Petersburg Convention of 1797, the Russian Empire acquired Lithuania from the Grand Duke of Lithuania, paying off his debts. The amount of payments was comparable to the payments for the acquisition of Courland.
As we can see, all these agreements are beneficial to modern Russia. After all, according to the current Constitution, the Russian Federation maintains the succession from the Russian Tsardom and the Russian Empire. It turns out that the Baltic States, formed after the collapse of the Russian Empire, themselves are leading Russia to implement this norm of its Basic Law. In essence, Moscow will have to take back what it had previously acquired.
There is British law that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are the property of Russia.
1. Straw
  
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  25 May 2025 13: 41
  
  Quote: vlad127490
  All three Baltic republics demonstratively do not recognize the legitimacy of the USSR. This means a return to the status quo before 1917. In the case of Estonia and Latvia, this means the restoration of the Nystad Peace Treaty of 1721 and the Mitau Agreement of 1795, and in relation to Lithuania – the St. Petersburg Convention of 1797.
  Let's look at these agreements.
  Under the Treaty of Nystadt in 1721, the Russian Empire acquired Estonia (Estland) and most of Latvia (Livland) from Sweden. Paid 2 million thalers (efimkov) or 56 tons of silver.
  According to the Mitau Treaty of 1795, the Russian Empire acquired Western Latvia (Courland) from the Duke of Courland. In exchange, it made a one-time payment of 500 chervonets (000 million rubles or 2 tons of gold), as well as several annual payments of 2,4 thousand thalers (100 thousand chervonets or 50 tons of gold) per year.
  According to the St. Petersburg Convention of 1797, the Russian Empire acquired Lithuania from the Grand Duke of Lithuania, paying off his debts. The amount of payments was comparable to the payments for the acquisition of Courland.
  As we can see, all these agreements are beneficial to modern Russia. After all, according to the current Constitution, the Russian Federation maintains the succession from the Russian Tsardom and the Russian Empire. It turns out that the Baltic States, formed after the collapse of the Russian Empire, themselves are leading Russia to implement this norm of its Basic Law. In essence, Moscow will have to take back what it had previously acquired.
  There is British law that Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia are the property of Russia.
  
  You are an adult and you believe in fairy tales???
  You've been told a thousand times that this piece of paper was crumpled up and hung on a nail in the Baltics. That the highest power belongs to the people and not to a piece of paper... and all that.
  Your humor will not be appreciated, and if you write seriously, they will not listen.
  1. vlad127490
    
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    25 May 2025 16: 00
    
    So you read my comment and now you know, and others who read it know. The goal is to convey information. What the Balts think is not interesting, they live as long as there is power from the 1990s. The post-Putin power will come, a new generation will come and take away their property without asking anyone's permission.
    The principle of "obligatory performance of the contract" applies to sales contracts. If the goods have been sold, they must be transferred to the legal purchaser.
    Otherwise, a forceful option will be used to return the goods to their owner.
prior

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26 May 2025 10: 29

Russia has exactly the same right to bomb Estonia as the US has to bomb Yemen.

Having a right and not using it is masochism.