TALLINN (UPI) -- Estonian officials said that if Russia buys a French amphibious assault ship, Estonia should consider taking security measures.
The Mistral-class helicopter carrier ship, for which the French are asking between $600 to $700 million, is scheduled to arrive Monday in St. Petersburg for the Russian navy and defense industry experts to inspect, RIA Novosti reported Sunday.
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jüri Estam25 Nov 2009 02:06
UPI is weird. Estonia "frets"?A friend of mine says he believes UPI copied the tag from one of the Russian propaganda "news agency" sites. It is of course a phrase befitting a country that has largely neglected her defense posture. But one frets when one's child is fifteen minutes late from school, one frets when the Baked Alaska recipe is not working quite right. I suppose Poland was fretting when Chamberlain was appeasing.
The world is disjointed nowadays. UPI used to be a mainstream organizations. For a news employee to tag the story with a headline like that means (multiple choice) that
a) the editor over at UPI is named Gene (Yevgeny)
b) UPI has slipped into slipping value judgements into its stories
c) the editor in chief is over at the bar down the street having his fifth Rusty Nail and doesn't really care
d) UPI has decided to try stand up comedy and the party being lampooned is Eesti
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