Yeah , I ' m not going to continue this discussion with you because it ' s going nowhere and we are not going to agree . I will just point out that your numbers are just wrong even according the very map you pulled . Perhaps you mistook the 1920 numbers for current day . Yes , Lithuania is only 5 % ethnic Russians , but Latvia and Estonia are roughly a quarter ethnically Russian . The people there are genuinely worried about a weakened NATO . If everything was as rosy and perfect as you seem to claim there would be no reason for them to worry . It ' s way more complicated than you suggest . From the wiki page Today about 27 . 6 % of Latvia ' s population are ethnic Russians . Overall , ethnic Russians make up 24 % of Estonia ' s population .