🧵 @NewStatesman asked me to look back on the past year.

2022 has made the face of Russian occupation and war crimes visible to the whole world. It's also made clear why giving anything to the aggressor and seeking premature peace is dangerous. 1/

📎https://www.newstatesman.com/world/europe/2022/12/estonia-support-ukraine-russian-imperialism

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kajakallas/status/1600758907479392256

Why is Russia waging genocidal war against Ukraine?

My response: look at history. Soviet Union fell, its imperialism never did. Stalinism returned. Use of force continued, against Moldova, Georgia, Crimea, Donbas.

Russia's full-scale war shouldn't have come as a surprise. 2/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kajakallas/status/1600758909563998208

We have been on right track with our support to Ukraine. But we must step it up until the last Russian soldier has left Ukraine.

We must make sure war criminals are held accountable.

Our response will be studied by all the dictators and would-be dictators across the globe. 3/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kajakallas/status/1600758913573433344

This past year also proved the power of public opinion and how, in democracies, the people can bring about governmental U-turns.

A year ago, who would have thought that Ukraine would be EU candidate country and that Sweden and Finland would be on their way to NATO? 4/

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/kajakallas/status/1600758916425871365