Despite its own appalling human rights record, Russia – possibly aided by sidekick aggressor country Belarus – will likely base its legal play-acting on its fever-dream insistence that Russian-speakers in the Baltic states face terrible discrimination and, even more fantastically, that a mass deportation of such persons is being planned, along the lines of its Soviet predecessors, according to Re:Baltica's report.

The intention appears to be to cause as much inconvenience as possib...