“If the Baltic States had not joined NATO, today we would be talking about another front with Russia” – Libération

The elected official urges European leaders to invest more in NATO and in the defense industry in the face of Russian hybrid threats growing on the continent.

Since the new election of Donald Trump, this is one of the many subjects that has agitated Europeans: what will happen to NATO and the tens of thousands of American soldiers deployed to help ensure the security of the continent ? Will the new president agree to continue paying for this? During his first term, Trump had already threatened to reduce the United States’ contribution to NATO if Europeans did not invest more in their security. During his re-election campaign, he thundered that he would encourage Russia “to do what she wants” members of the Alliance who do not devote 2% of their GDP to defense, as they committed to doing in 2014.

Combined with the war in Ukraine, the threat has borne fruit. 24 of 32 allies have now reached or exceeded this threshold. An effort, however, deemed insufficient by Raimond Kaljulaid, Estonian MP from the Social Democratic Party (member of the government coalition) and representative of Eston