Baltics to ask NATO for thousands of troops
Source: Yahoo! News / AFP
Vilnius (AFP) - The Baltic states will formally ask NATO to deploy several thousand troops as a deterrent to Russia, Lithuania said Thursday, but the alliance gave no assurance that the request would be accepted.
NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said at meeting of the alliance's foreign ministers in the Turkish city of Antalya that he was aware such a request was being made but emphasised it was too early to assess the demand.
"We are seeking a brigade-size unit so that every Baltic nation would have a battalion," military spokesman Lithuanian Captain Mindaugas Neimontas told AFP.
He said Lithuanian, Latvian and Estonian generals would soon send a joint request to US General Philip Breedlove, NATO's top commander.
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swilton
(5,069 posts)I hope saner heads in NATO and the EU prevail...
Bosonic
(3,746 posts)But what do they know, eh?
NuclearDem
(16,184 posts)their mistrust isn't entirely unwarranted.
hack89
(39,171 posts)Xolodno
(6,401 posts)...for awhile. If anything, encouraging for this to happen. It gives him what he wants...NATO and sponsoring countries expending resources preparing for something he probably doesn't have any intention of doing.