Last month US President for Life hopeful Donald Trump Pentagon officials warned NATO the US would be cutting security assistance to Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. These nations border Russian President for Life Vladimir Putin‘s border.
Pentagon officials sat down with a group of European diplomats in late August and delivered a stern message: The U.S. planned to cut off some security assistance to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia, all NATO members bordering Russia. More broadly, Pentagon official David Baker told the group, according to an official with direct knowledge of the comments, Europe needed to be less dependent on the U.S. Under President Donald Trump, the U.S. military would be shifting its attention to other priorities, like defense of the homeland and invading US cities. Reuters (ok, I added that last little bit)
The assistance has been a deterrent to Russian imperialism in the region. Russia has been using tactics of propaganda, intimidation and sabotage against nations on it’s borders and around the Baltic. In 2024 the US Congress approved a security package for Baltic States (ERR.ee), an increase over the package approved the prior year.
Trump should read Appeasement Wikipedia, then again, maybe he already has.
- BREAKING: U.S. Cuts Security Assistance to NATO Baltic States Centered America
- The Beginning of the End of NATO The Atlantic
- Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts: Lessons from the Nordic-Baltic Region on Countering Russian Gray Zone Aggression Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
- Reverse Psychology in the Arctic Circle 4dforum