ESTONIA WILL NOT SETTLE FOR DEFEATISM
I recently had an excellent opportunity to listen to the head of the intelligence service of a major Western nation discuss the key challenges in the world today. He spoke about the impact of AI, growing global reach of China, continued importance of agent intelligence, and increasing price of intelligence activities. However, his most hard-hitting message was directed at Western decision makers – why does our mindset seek solutions through acceptance of defeat? How does this manifest? In the inability of the Western capitals so far to decide once and for all how the war in Ukraine should end and with what results. Instead of taking action to ensure Ukraine’s victory, Western capitals are falling more and more in the grips of defeatism. In fact, it is not impossible that someone somewhere has already come to the conclusion that Russia’s defeat in Ukraine might have such massive and unforeseeable consequences that it could itself lead to a more immense international chaos than the...