Putin Playing Chess

I don't have predictions but I can provide insight. I was born in Latvia and immigrated with my parents as a child to Canada. Most of my mothers family still lives there. Here are some basic things about the Baltic's that need to be kept in mind. During the soviet occupation, the native languages of that region were suppressed in favour of Russian, and there even was an effort to resettle ethnic Russians in the Baltic's in order to Russify the area culturally and linguistically. After the soviet union collapsed and the independent republics took shape, there was a concerted effort to reestablish indigenous culture and language again. This took the form of discriminating against and marginalizing the Russian community in the Baltic's. Things like language laws and discriminatory citizenship practices came about. Citizenship was given to people who's families had lived in the region prior to world war two, so in my own personal case, half of my family became citizen's of nowhere and held Alien passports despite having lived in Latvia for decades. in 2004 the Baltic's joined the EU, they also joined Nato. Both of these decisions were made because the republics wanted to prevent Russia from ever aggressing against them again, however Russia saw it as a provocation. Something like 30% of the population of the Baltic's is of ethnic Russian descent. They live in their own communities and do not mix very much with the indigenous population. Riga as a city is similar to Montreal in it's linguistic split. So you have a community of people numbering about 30% of the total population who feel marginalized by the wider society, and get most of their information and media from Russian television and internet, and distrust the west for cultural reasons as much as propaganda reasons. This is dangerous. My own family staunchly supports Putin and will hear no bad of him, they staunchly dislike the national government of Latvia and would always vote for a Russian candidate over a Latvian one. See a pattern here. It's entrenched tribalism made worse by the discriminatory policies of the governments of the Baltic's. You could argue that the native citizen's (Latvian's, Lithuanian's and Estonian's) lived for many decades under discrimination, and therefore that they are justified in turning the tables. However two wrongs don't make a right, and now we're how dangerous this policy of alienation really is. 

When it comes to the future I am scared, but I feel that I largely get mental blanks when I try and meditate on it. Maybe it's too personal to me and therefore I cannot see. I would recommend you read the work's of Masha Gessen who has studied Putin and does not think he is as intelligent as he is made out to be. And also the work's of Gary Kasaparov, who was a chess champion and is now a political activist opposed to Putin. I do not agree with everything these two say, but it is a good place to start for those who want a broader perspective.

Natalie

Another  psychic Eric liegh pink who I follow says  Putins going to do a land grab soon, I believe he's weighing up his options up and while Trumps busy with north Korea he have a go go.

Hi Natalie;

Very interesting - Thank you for the information. 

Is it possible that the Latvian President is 'in with Putin', in some way?  I did notice in the Wiki article that his mother is Russian.  On the other hand, I also noticed that he was a member of the Green Party, so I am not sure if that means he would be someone that would 'work with' Putin. 

Lisa-So he thinks it will be maybe this spring soon? or ?   The first 'image' that I saw was the 'invasion of Ukraine'... but I got the feeling it would be, at the earliest, this fall, or maybe winter 2018.

I don't know anything about the current Latvian President. A quick 10 scan of him and I think he is a bit earnest, he would work with Putin but only if he saw benefit for Latvia, at the moment I don't think he is working with Putin. He is scared, that comes up strong, I don't think he could handle a crisis. I see him being liable to become a victim of Putin's schemes but not as an orchestrating agent. This is based on a completely fallible very quick scan. Maybe you see better than me. 

I just read his Wikipedia page. He is an eccentric character. Religion - Latvian Neopaganism. Brings back memories of the summer solstice festival of Ligo, which is still a national holiday there. I too feel his illness is pretty serious and he is not being publicly honest about him, he's very emotional privately, but tries to keep a lid on it publicly.

Natalie, I agree with you on problems of Latvia. The way it was handled after independence was very wrong. People should have been given citizenship, especially the ones that were born there. That alienated lots of people. Also its truth about Russian speaking population supporting Putin. The problems are deep but they could be sorted if people would unite, they have more in common than they think. I know lots of people that have mixed families. I myself come from bilingual family where I spoke Latvian to my mother and Russian to my father. So I very well understand both sides. I also appreciate beauty of both cultures. Latvia is very close to my heart as my whole family is there. Im desperately scared of war braking out there. I dont know much about the current president there, but president in Latvia doesnt hold much power, he is more ceremonial figure. But I dont think he is connected to Putin in any way, although you never know. 

Yeah I didn't feel the president was connected to Putin, just that he was a bit naive and might become connected to him in the Future. I know that there are more blended families now, I've met some. In my family the only blended person is me (Cuban), otherwise since the 1880's no one has married a non Russian. I worry a lot about Riga and Latvia too, but I feel helpless, like there's nothing that can be done. I think forgiveness is something that needed to happen, and still can happen, if the two communities can let go of the past and move forward together. The younger generation may do this, my grandmother's generation simply won't. I have so many memories of Latvia, I've visited a lot. Soon I want to bring my new husband there to meet my family. 

Hi Dina and Natalie;

My 'psychic abilities' in this matter are not-verified.  I have had various events in my own life that are about me, but that exercise of looking at a map, and at pictures in a Wiki was a completely new experience.  I was a tad distressed by what I 'saw' so I did not try to repeat the exercise.  At the time of the class, I also got the image of my Aunt in the hospital, then I and my cousins were standing around in a room looking all sombre - I assume a funeral.  So that really upset and threw me off everything else.

Thus - I will take any of your scannings over anything that I 'saw/felt'.  Maybe I felt 'he is hiding something' and assumed that it was about Putin - and it is really about something else.

On another note - I saw a documentary that was about 'women in power'.  One of the women that they featured was the Lithuanian President.  She said in the documentary that the West must be careful of Putin, and she also said that she thinks that Putin is afraid/(feels intimidated) by women.

Pamela, he could be connected in the future, we never know. Natalie, yes I agree forgiveness is the way forward. My friends are very mixed there and everyone is embracing each other, but they all are more intellectual, artsy type of people, those kind of people are more open anyway. Generally people need to get out of their shell and embrace each other, love and support each other. Putin is very dangerous to the region, I hope and pray for the peace.