NATO starts biggest ever drill in Poland amid security fears

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72. So NATO's job is to protect countries who deny the right to vote to some of its "residents".

I can NOT call them Citizens for Latvia and Estonia refuses to grant them citizenship, even through they and their parents were born in Latvia and Estonia. Both countries have a rule, unless you can trace your family back to before 1939 as living in Latvia or Estonia, you are NOT a citizen. This affects about 1/4 of the population in both countries AND if they had the right to vote, the present government of both countries would lose their control of both countries (about a 1/3 of the people who can vote what to extend the right to vote to those "non-citizens&quot .

At the present time about 11 % of the population of Latvia are "Non-Citizens (Mostly Russian speakers and then mostly in the larger cities). Another approximately 14% of the population either have Russian Citizenship *Russian has a policy if you were born in the Soviet Union you can become a Russian Citizenship by simply signing up to be a Citizen) or citizenship in another country. Most of these Russian Citizens living in Latvia, became Russian Citizens for it was easier then becoming a Latvian "Citizen". These Russians are tolerated in Latvia for they tend to be the people who operate the machinery, both mechanical and human, that keeps the government and country operating (The engineers, mechanics, Bureaucrats etc who keeps urban societies running).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-citizens_(Latvia)

In Estonia, 7.4% of the population have NO Citizenship and 8.4% have foreign (mostly Russian) citizenship (Russia will give anyone who had lived in the Soviet Union or any of the Soviet Union's successor States automatic Citizenship, thus it is easier to get Russian Citizenship in both Estonia and Latvia then it is to get Estonia or Latvian Citizenship, even of you were born in either country).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_Russians_in_post-Soviet_states

In Simple terms about 25% of both Latvia and Estonia are of Russian Nationality (More then half have Citizenship,but just under half do NOT), another 10% are of other Slavic groups (Ukrainians, Belorussians, Poles, etc) whose main language is Russian for they deal with the Russian urban population on a daily basis. These are all concentrated in the larger cities, the rural areas are overwhelmingly either Estonian or Latvian. Given that any support have to go through those major cities it is a concern.

The other Baltic State, Lithuania, avoided the above mess, by declaring anyone living in Lithuania was a citizen from the day the Soviet Union broke up (and one of the reasons you have NOT heard of Lithuania in the present mess).

Poland is being run by a right wing group that is as nationalistic as the present rulers of Estonia and Latvia, thus Poland's support for this hostility to Russia (Something Lech Welsea and two other former Presidents of Poland have come out against).

https://www.rt.com/news/345447-poland-anti-government-march/

More on the present Party running Poland:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_and_Justice