Yes, it is a function of age. The Lipponen-Halonen-Nyberg generation will always see EE as lesser people in need of patronizing guidance. Younger Estonians, who, unlike their parents, speak no Finnish, don't look up North for their inspiration or as examples to follow.
Greetings from Kyiv, where people have been using a new verb Шольцить, (loosely translated as, to make a Scholz-like vow): To make a major promise you don't plan to fulfill; to appear to be concerned about a situation and pay lip service to those in need but give them little.
There is so much mythmaking about US policy in '80s-'90s that it is hard to conceive a deliberate policy against, e.g., relegalization of Solidarity in Poland or Baltic independence (as well as against other democratic movements further east). But it's in the record. 2/2