海角大神

The shaping and quelling of international conflicts can feel like the exclusive province of the powerful. Consider, this week, the U.S. president鈥檚 suggestion that he could (and just might) add long-range Tomahawk missiles to Ukraine鈥檚 arsenal to change a war鈥檚 calculus.聽

Ordinary citizens have fewer levers and must play a longer game.聽But with citizenry comes purpose and solidarity. That, too, lends power.聽Like Finns, Estonians have an uneasy proximity to an expansionist Russia. And, as with Finns, readiness is a rallying cry. It鈥檚 less about militancy than about a collective resolve, as Isabelle de Pommereau reports, to make foreign occupation of Estonia unthinkable.