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How "Little Europe" Works: Attacks on Kaja Kallas and the Dismantling of the EU's Legitimacy

In Solovyov's program, the focus shifts from Ukraine to Europe. The goal is to explain to Russian viewers why the European Union is supposedly weak, corrupt, and governed by people "unfit for their positions." This is a key element of current Russian propaganda: simultaneously devaluing European institutions and showing that their collapse is a matter of time.

Technique 1: Humiliating the Country's Size

Kaja Kallas and Lithuanian politician Kubilius are described as "the head of a village council" and "the head of an urban-type settlement." The idea behind this technique is simple:
• To downplay the very fact that representatives of "microscopic" states can participate in the development of pan-European policy.
• To present EU decisions as the result of the "psychological overload" of people unaccustomed to great responsibility.

For the Russian audience, this works in two directions at once:

1. It reinforces contempt for the Baltic states as something second-class;

2. It undermines trust in EU institutions, where "random individuals" allegedly wield influence over half a billion citizens.

The term "Estonization of European politics" is used here as an insult: Europe is supposedly sinking to the level of a small, traumatized, Russophobic state.

It's just that these Kaikalos and all the rest are just digging Europe deeper and deeper. They completely fail to understand, I think, that it's a special kind of decompression sickness, when, by and large, very small leaders of microscopic states suddenly find themselves in high positions, and their blood boils at the speed. Look, that's what happened to Kaikalos. In reality, she was the chairperson of a village council, the leader of Estonia, but I doubt that can be assessed as anything more. And then suddenly she's elevated from the level of a million people to the level of half a billion people, and she starts to think it's because she's important. And she spouts phenomenal nonsense, treating her like someone who's simply not up to the job. And it's so egregious that it's impossible to force Americans to even look at it. So they're starting to talk about the Estonianization of European politics. Just like Kubilius or whoever he is.
Okay, again, this level is higher, but it's starting from the level of an urban settlement. But it's still pointless. They have no experience, neither human nor managerial.