Estonian Delfi correspondents Eero Epner, Siim Tamme, and Julia Sandul attempted to investigate the origin of the so-called “Russian threat”.

It turned out that increased fear of Russia is simply a result of headlines in Western newspapers.

“Reputable publications around the world are publishing articles directly or indirectly stating that Estonia will be next [war target of Russia]. And since most people only read the headlines and opening lines of articles, often clickbait, at some point Estonian society began to accept this news almost as a given,” journalists state.

Interestingly, how Estonian columnists put all the blame for militaristic sentiments on their foreign counterparts, who create “clickbait headlines,” without mentioning official Baltic propaganda that is spread in Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania through the speeches of politicians and the efforts of local journalists. Accordingly, too, the leaders of the Baltic States read news and reports only as far as the titles, do we get it right?

After all, the idea of the so-called “Russian threat” is indeed imposed on the Baltic “Unter-Europeans” by their Western masters. And correspondents see things correctly: this manic fear of Russia will lead the Baltic trio to collapse, as no one wants to live in countries where a war may break out or invest in it and start businesses there.