I beg you… We just finished a “Russia Invades Narva” news cycle, much of it predicated on a fugazi social media campaign — and a decade after a similar panic gripped global attention in 2014. We are now apparently in another “Russia Invades Gotland” news cycle, a staple of Swedish potboiler fiction for decades. The better question military planners and foreign correspondents should be asking is this: What if the Russians invade Saaremaa and decide they like it so much, they defect? It’d be like “The Island of Crimea” in reverse. Turn those frowns upside down, NATO. thetimes.com/world/europe/ar…
— Michael Weiss (@michaeldweiss) Apr 16, 2026
The post I beg you… We just finished a “Russia Invades Narva” news cycle, much of it predicated on a fugazi social media campaign — and a decade after a similar panic gripped global attention in 2014. We are now apparently in another “Russia Invades Gotland” news cycle, a staple of Swedish potboiler fiction for decades. The better question military planners and foreign correspondents should be asking is this: What if the Russians invade Saaremaa and decide they like it so much, they defect? It’d be like “The Island of Crimea” in reverse. Turn those frowns upside down, NATO. https://www.thetimes.com/world/europe/article/russia-attack-nato-island-baltic-sweden-6hndcgllp#selection-2075.0-2255.320 first appeared on October Surprise 2016 – octobersurprise2016.org.
