If al Kremlin there had been a woman whose invasion had taken placeUkraine would never exist. This is supported by the Estonian Prime Minister in an interview with the Times Kaya Kallas. “When I see pictures of Ukraine, when I make the decision to give them more aid, I keep thinking how sad it is that all the military equipment destroyed does not benefit either the economy or the wellbeing of people,” he says . . “Maybe that’s a lot sexistbut I’ll say it anyway: if you gave, if you gave birth human livesTaking the life of another mother’s child is so cruel”
The Estonian Prime Minister, who is part of a new generation of women leaders in the region, along with his counterparts in Lithuania, Sweden, Denmark and Finlandtold the British newspaper that his principles were inspired by the Canadian psychologist’s book Stefan Pinker, The Decrease in Violence: “There’s a chapter that says there’s less violence when there are women leaders. I totally agree,” he said.
Estonia was occupied by the Soviet Union from 1940 (with a Nazi interlude) until 1991, when it regained its independence. Kallas’ mother was only six months old deported to Siberia. His father, Sim Kallas, experienced the transition from the USSR to the new Republic of Estonia, where he was Foreign Minister and Prime Minister between 2002 and 2003 before going to Brussels for 10 years as Commissioner. From inspiration liberalSince January 26, 2021, the 44yearold young lawyer has been leading the little girl’s government Baltic nationthe first woman to hold the office of prime minister in her country.
“Although the Soviet Union collapsed, its imperialist ideology never collapsed,” he told LaPresse in recent days, “all the red flags have been there over the last few decades: imperial nostalgia, the narrative of Russian victimhood, and Putin’s wars in Chechnya, Georgia , Donbas and Crimea. Putin has gotten away with it before, but we have to make sure he doesn’t get away with it now. I can’t even believe you won. Otherwise his appetite will grow.”
Kallas is one of the few female firsts in the EU after she left the scene Angela Merkel There is none at the G7, but “what I see at the table in the EU and NATO is that one’s background doesn’t matter. In the end, our vote has equal weight. The real chauvinists are those who commit war crimes in Ukraine,” she said in response to a question from LaPresse in recent days about the lack of women among G7 leaders and at the negotiating tables between Ukraine and Russia.