Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Toomas Hendrik Ilves
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Unsuccessfully retired ex-prez, ex-MEP, ex-foreign minister, ex-ambassador, ex-director of RFE-RL Estonian service, etc, ex cetera.

Except for @darthputinkgb.bsky.social, I take seriously only those who post here under his or her own name.
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Nothing says East Europeans are nothing but untermenschen not to be listened to like this tweet,
October 10, 2025 at 6:27 PM
August 10, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Estonians were among the first to go in. They were mainly stationed at Forward Operating Base Wahid, 30 km inside Taliban territory. You could only get there via helicopter flying fast at low altitude. I visited them when I was in office in December 2010.

I'm the one with the white shirt 3/9
June 11, 2025 at 6:52 PM
This is a picture of the monument our troops put up at Fort Bastion to their fallen comrades. When Estonian troops left, they took home their monument too. The picture is of the monument they built. A young son of one of the fallen was there when I officially opened the monument. 2/9
June 11, 2025 at 6:45 PM
June 9, 2025 at 7:36 PM
June 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Pankur avastab Immanuel Kanti analüütilist propositsiooni.

Järgmisena:

Kõik poissmehed on vallalised.
May 28, 2025 at 7:05 AM
Regarding the unflagged tanker in the Baltic Sea
May 16, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I took the liberty of creating an alternative cover for the report, with my co-author as a hussar of the Lithuanian-Polish Commonwealth and yrs truly as an Estonian peasant from Halliste Parish in South Estonia, standing on the cliffs on the Gulf of Estonia/ (or Finland). @kaikaarelson.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 2:15 PM
April 24, 2025 at 9:30 PM
April 3, 2025 at 5:33 PM
March 13, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Well this is helpful from the US

www.politico.eu/article/euro...
March 13, 2025 at 8:54 AM
March 10, 2025 at 8:51 PM
In Estonia, we don't say "We told you so". We just know it, toverid.
February 18, 2025 at 7:27 AM
February 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
This is such a bizarre piece. "It's not sabotage" say anonymous sources

Finlands former head of military intelligence says it is, as does an expert at Janes.

Sounds more like no government wants to deal with the implications so they down play it. But anonymously of course.

Do better, WaPo.
January 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
As a respite from despair over the state of the world, liberal democracy, European security, Ukraine and all the rest, I took some time out to bake Estonian sour dough rye bread.
December 18, 2024 at 4:43 PM
From this morning's Politico Europe Brussels Playbook:
December 2, 2024 at 1:06 PM
Hey @keirgiles.bsky.social look what Amazon sent me (waiting for your signed copy for the blurb writer)
November 30, 2024 at 4:52 PM
November 24, 2024 at 2:44 AM
Masterclass trolling or calling in his IOUs or both.
November 12, 2024 at 10:23 AM