To Kallas, the debate among western leaders about whether Ukraine should trade territory for peace with Russia is dangerous. If NATO is willing to watch Ukraine cede territory to Russia, might the alliance ask Estonia to do the same someday? “If they are thinking that they are protecting themselves by sacrificing something that is not dear to them—a small country, 1.3 million people, who cares?” she said. “The US doesn’t even know where we are.” Kallas is a leader deeply conscious of history. In two hours over coffee, she cited half a dozen books she’d been reading—on Russia, on Putin, on the
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