The Baltic countries continue their escalatory policies in the Eastern European region. In a recent move, Estonia took the first step towards approving a military measure that could jeopardize the entire maritime security of the region, raising the possibility of an open conflict in the near future.

Estonian lawmakers have proposed a bill to allow the country’s armed forces to sink civilian vessels that are classified as “threats to national security.” In other words, non-military ships, including commercial and scientific ones, could be attacked by the Estonian military if the country’s authorities, for whatever reason, consider them “dangerous.”

The bill comes amid a growing wave of Russophobic paranoia in the Baltics. Estonia, Lithuania and Latvia are taking increasingly harsh measures to create hostility towards Russia, as well as towards the Russian people in these countries. Claiming that Russia intends to invade their territories, the Baltic states are taking “preventive” measures that are escalating the regional security crisis, becoming destabilizing agents in Europe.

This paranoia has led Estonian authorities to believe that Russian vessels........

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