Why the Baltics are preparing for Putin
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🗓️ 21 March 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Estonia, one of the Baltic states, sits on Europe's front line with Russia. The country that was, like Ukraine, once part of the Soviet Union is increasingly worried about the threat Putin poses, and has plans in place if there is an invasion. But, if western Europe can no longer rely on the transatlantic alliance, will it work? And what could Britain learn from it?
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Guest: Oliver Moody, Berlin Correspondent, The Times and The Sunday Times.
Host: Manveen Rana.
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| 0:47.5 | From the Times and the Sunday Times, this is the story. I'm Manvim Rana. |
| 0:57.1 | Thank you. This is the story. I'm Manvim Rana. The world has rarely seemed less stable. |
| 1:03.0 | Some defence experts believe we're already in the foothills of World War III. |
| 1:10.4 | But while we're all busy watching the trouble hotspots in Ukraine, Russia, |
| 1:15.4 | Gaza and Taiwan, worried about how they might spill over, |
| 1:20.2 | perhaps we should be paying a little more attention |
| 1:22.5 | to a sleepy, wooded corner of one of the Baltic states. |
| 1:38.3 | About 10 miles to the border between Russia and Estonia, there is this nunnery, the Puttica Convent of the Immaculate Convention, |
| 1:43.3 | which is a walled compound with these |
| 1:47.2 | copper-green roofs and a little pile of onion domes in the middle, surrounded by forest, |
| 1:55.2 | extremely bucolic. And it is one of only two Russian Orthodox convents that remained open throughout |
| 2:05.1 | the Soviet era and the crackdown on Christianity. So it has a kind of tremendously symbolic |
| 2:11.9 | place in the mythology of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
| 2:19.8 | It sounds like the sort of place that belongs on the tourist trail, |
| 2:23.9 | but this little convent, with its colourful domes, |
| 2:27.2 | could be the flashpoint that causes a war between NATO and Russia. |
| 2:33.5 | How exactly would that happen? |
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