From Postimees (also known as CIA, NED, Radio Free Europe, r*ddit) with the original article title being along the lines of "alternative political perspectives fail to change mainstream views in Estonia".
CW: Estonian cringe translated into English for your reading displeasure
"Estonian politics is to be the democratic Western civilization shielding against the authoritarian regimes like big scary Russia, China, Iran, North Korea and their satellites (they basically mean everyone in the Global South, especially BRICS). The border nations must be the aegis of Western civilization like piSSrael and uKKKraine, who are defending the free Western world with their blood."
Being fluent in Estonian is actually a curse bro I swear
Part of the reason is that they were already the most developed regions of the USSR, with very urban population and highest GDP per capita. It's the reason why lots of ethnic Russians moved there in search of higher economic level and that's where their claims of genocide through replacement come from (literally parallel to white replacement conspiracy but substituting Arabs with Russians). Go to the article on Wikipedia about Russians in Estonia and you'll see that it talks of Russians being "settlers", which is an outrageous claim to make when in reality they were economic migrants.
As for Estonia in particular, I feel like gearing a highly trained and educated workforce composed of just a few million people towards an EU-oriented service economy is easier than e.g. Ukraine's strong industrial core literally disappearing overnight.