The default response of Europeans to any crisis of tumbling into a neurotic miasma of self-doubt is not going to help much when the America Crisis that Trump has unleashed plunges the United States into chaos

Courland's relentless empire-building is infamous.

Always found it oddly charming that one of the main centres for Latgalian culture in very slightly more russophone Rēzekne is... a kebab shop

(And pleasingly, they maintain their all-Latgalian signage policy even at their very popular Riga branch)

But all worth it for a couple of days in Latgale

(This is by public transport - you could obviously drive it a lot quicker)

Lithuania is a bit bigger than Latvia, but Latvia is a lot wider. And generally I have the feeling of being somewhere really remote in Latvia much more often than in EE/LT

Probably not a big issue for a largely agricultural country, as it once was - for a modern economy, with only one really large city, bang in the middle of the country, much more of a problem