{"id":30077,"date":"2018-01-24T06:41:26","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:41:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30077"},"modified":"2018-01-24T06:41:41","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:41:41","slug":"estonia-to-issue-how-to-prepare-for-war-leaflets-to-1-3-million-citizens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=30077","title":{"rendered":"Estonia To Issue &#8216;How To Prepare For War&#8217; Leaflets To 1.3 Million Citizens"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-zerohedge-page-title\" class=\"block block-core block-page-title-block\">\n<h3 class=\"page-title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/Estonia To Issue 'How To Prepare For War' Leaflets To 1.3 Million Citizens\"><span class=\"field field--name-title field--type-string field--label-hidden\">Estonia To Issue &#8216;How To Prepare For War&#8217; Leaflets To 1.3 Million Citizens<\/span><\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"block-zerohedge-content\" class=\"block block-system block-system-main-block\">\n<article class=\"node node--type-article node--view-mode-full\" role=\"article\">\n<footer class=\"node__meta\"><\/footer>\n<div class=\"node__content\">\n<div class=\"clearfix text-formatted field field--name-body field--type-text-with-summary field--label-hidden field__item\">\n<p>As the world marches closer to war, countries in Europe are <strong>rushing to educate and prepare their civilian populations for military conflict with Russia.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Last week, for the first time since World War II, Sweden\u2019s\u00a0government <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/news\/2018-01-18\/sweden-preparing-civil-war-pm-wants-deploy-army-no-go-zones\">announced<\/a> that it would soon distribute some 4.7 million civil defense brochures to its citizens, warning them about the onset of war.<\/p>\n<p>In the latest installment of war preparations, <strong>Estonian public broadcaster <a href=\"https:\/\/news.err.ee\/655400\/brochure-to-be-published-what-to-do-in-case-of-crisis-or-war\">ERR<\/a> reports that the government of Estonia is preparing to send some 1.3 million civil defense brochures to its citizens, with instructions of what do in the event of a significant crisis or war, <\/strong>said Brig. Gen. Martin Herem of the Estonian Defence Forces in an interview with Postimees.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cWhen it will be published, I do not know. But work is in progress,\u201d said Brig. Gen. Herem. According to the Postimees, the Ministry of the interior is currently \u201ccoordinating work on the brochure.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Estonia, a former Soviet republic that borders Russia, is now a member of NATO, meaning the United States and Europe are obligated by treaties to defend it.<\/strong> When analyst and policymakers war game scenarios between the United States and Russia, they usually point to the Estonia\u2013Russia border as the highest probable area of where conflict in Europe could breakout besides Ukraine.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/20180120_estonia1.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The largest Baltic state, <strong>Lithuania, in late 2016 issued a 75-page \u201chow to survive another Russian occupation\u201d <\/strong>manual for its citizens called; \u201cPrepare to survive emergencies and war.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/20180120_estonia2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>All three Baltic states (Estonia, Latvia, &amp; Lithuania) have been invaded and occupied by Russia in the past. However, the Baltic states are now under NATO control, which has made Russian aggression into Europe somewhat complicated, because it would trigger war.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/sites\/default\/files\/inline-images\/20180120_estonia2.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Estonia To Issue &#8216;How To Prepare For War&#8217; Leaflets To 1.3 Million Citizens As the world marches closer to war, countries in Europe are rushing to educate and prepare their civilian populations for military conflict with Russia. Last week, for the first time since World War II, Sweden\u2019s\u00a0government announced that it would soon distribute some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[3806,553,694,862,891],"class_list":["post-30077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","tag-estonia","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-war","tag-world-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=30077"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30079,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30077\/revisions\/30079"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}