Realistically, what could prevent this?

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Me

Estonian women just have to be nice to Russian men and crisis will be averted.

Russia not being completely retarded

Just let it happen, it will make things interesting

Nothing to gain.

me not wanting to pay x100 times more for hardware

nukes

They don't need to do this when they can just make the Baltic states more Russian using cash incentives and adoption, among other things. Way cheaper and way safer.

russia barely keeps its economy one piece after putin's adventures in ukraine, certainly it doesn't want to escalate shit for no real reason whatsoever. it's not like those sanctions were only bad, they surely strengthened the country's self-reliance, but they also slowed down the economy greatly and the drop of the currency rates led to a plunge in the real revenue of the people, especially when it's related to buying some imported goods or traveling aboard, even despite the increase in salaries, common when such a plunge happens