On Tuesday, a monument to Nazi generals and collaborators was destroyed in Moscow. The monument was located in the inner courtyard of the Church of All Saints near Sokol subway station. Unknown vandals smashed the small obelisk with inscription to the Warriors of Russian Service Union, Russian Corps, Cossack Formation, Cossacks of the 15th Cavalry Corps (XV.Kosaken-Kavallerie-Korps) who Fell for the Faith and the Fatherland.

Recent events in Tallinn did not yet raise the question on the limits of  European hypocrisy which seems to be boundless. News of police assault against demonstrators reminded of reports from a warzone. It was indeed very much like war zone reportage. Brutal beatings of tens and hundreds, mass detentions in a facility that was so poignantly similar to a concentration camp did not get even slightest symbolical condemnation from the European Union officialdom or from America’s ever vigilant Department of State. In his time Victor Yanukovich got so scared tha the decided against employing force to disperse Orangist demonstrators, gripped with justified fear that the humanistic West would accuse him of all mortal sins. We have a saying that human blood’s color is the same all over. Well, it’s not so in the West.

Estonia is a parcel of land which can potentially control the passage in the Gulf of Finland in the same way as Iran’s controls the world’s most important oil artery — the Strait of Hormuz. Until today two factors restricted this control — 12 nautical mile territorial limit and lack of armed forces of any significant strength on Estonian territory.

In case of Russia’s excessive response, both limitations could easily be removed, the Gulf of Finland will then be divided between Estonia and Finland, and in case if Russia attempts to forcefully resist the measure, as a member of the NATO alliance Estonia would get a justification to invoke the NATO charter and ask for help, and there can be no doubt that the help would be forthcoming immediately.

This could lead to two possible scenarios: either a full scale world war or Russia’s return to the times of the Peace of Stolbovo of 1617 under which terms Russia lost all access to the Baltic sea.