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| Baltic States Tackle Defense Spending after Crimea Takeover |
| 2014-03-29 |
| [An Nahar] Wary of their powerful neighbor Russia, the Baltic states of Lithuania and Latvia plan to double defense spending while Estonia will maintain its strong level after watching Moscow take over Crimea. The three countries of 6.3 million people will mark on Saturday a decade since joining the NATO ...the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It's headquartered in Belgium. That sez it all.... military alliance, a move seen as a bulwark against unwanted Russian overtures. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Two percent of Estonia's 2012 GDP, $28.44 billion, is about $570 million dollars. That's not going to go very far even with a country of 1.3 million people. I appreciate the sentiment but until the major European powers come to understand that THEY need to spend more on defense and deterrence (and to grow a spine), the Russians will do as they pretty much wish. |
| Posted by: Steve White 2014-03-29 11:38 |
| #2 |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2014-03-29 10:47 |
| #1 Go Swiss. Issue every able bodied male an AK, 200 rounds of ammo, and every tenth an RPG to keep in their homes. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2014-03-29 10:42 |