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The United States announced a reduction in security for security for the eastern border of Europe with Russia to force European countries to spend more than their own defense expenses.
The Pentagon informed European partners about the decision to hold part of the support and called on them to get a large share of security funding.
The Baltic Security initiative, founded in 2020 to support the Armed Forces of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, is currently called into question. Last year, the Congress earned $ 228 million per program, and this money will be used to expand the air defense systems, naval observation and reinforcement of land forces in this area.
All three Baltic states are NATO members, Russian neighbors and between the narrowest allies of Ukraine.
The decision in the United States was announced the day after the meeting of President Donald Trump and President Carol Navenka. Then Trump assured that he would continue to send us troops to Poland, which borders on Ukraine.
“We will send more (soldiers) there, if they want it,” he said.
After the meeting of Trump with Navrotsky, the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Lithuania Kestotis Budris welcomed statements, considering them as a message to continue the US military support in the region.
“The more ties in this area, the more confirmations of allied connections, the better,” he said in an interview.
“We rely on clear messages from the United States that these forces will not be reduced, and that the Americans recognize the great value that they offer in stability and peace in the alliance,” he added.
Some provisions of the support plan may require the approval of the congress. Republicans in both bodies often disagree with Trump and supported military spending in Europe to prevent Putin and the best equipment of the Allies.
“This is the wrong step that sends the opposite message when we are trying to force Putin to speak and stop Russian aggression,” Senator Jin Sakhin, a leading democrat in the Committee on International Relations in the Senate, said in his statement.
“In Europe, inter -party support is widespread to use this form of support,” he said.