Allies in Eastern Europe worried the U.S. wasn't taking the Russian threat seriously enough. Then Biden held his disastrous press conference.
"Given the force imbalance in the region, effective deterrence and defense can be achieved only by capable in-place forces, which should include national forces and presence of Allied forces, including...U.S. forces as a necessary and indispensable element," the parliamentarians wrote."This is the level of ambition that Lithuania seeks—to become a continuous location for US battalion size units' deployments.
For months now, U.S. allies in what former U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld once called"the New Europe"—those nations east of Germany, the most recent to join NATO—have chafed as the Russian threat to Ukraine increased. Many don't believe the Biden administration was taking their level of concern seriously enough, or was doing enough to help shore up both Kyiv's defenses and the allies' own, as the possibility of war drew nearer.
At a recent press conference, U.S. President Joe Biden promised ithat Russia would be"held accountable if it invades" Ukraine. Above, Biden answers questions during a news conference in the East Room of the White House on January 19, 2022, in Washington, D.C.Publicly, those moves were welcomed. But privately, the Baltics and some of the Eastern European nations were hoping for more.
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