The inactive West

The daily Postimees takes a sceptical view of NATO's loyalty to its members after the Caucasus crisis: "How would Russia react today if Estonia and the other Baltic states wanted to join NATO? Let's be happy we already have. But that does not answer the more important question of whether anyone would come to our aid in a crisis. The clause that in a defence case, all member states must answer for each other has not yet been put to the test. According to statements from the US, South Ossetia's 70,000 inhabitants are no reason to start a third world war. But then the question arises, just how big does a country have to be to justify intervention?"

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