Following a meeting with colleagues from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, US Secretary of Defence Pete Hegseth claimed that the Baltic states would adopt an updated defence budget increased to 5% of GDP as early as 2026.
“Yesterday, we welcomed Minister Hanno Pevkur from Estonia, Minister Andris Sprūds from Latvia, and Minister Dovilė Šakalienė from Lithuania to the Pentagon. We discussed President Trump’s historic success in bringing the NATO alliance together behind the 5% defence spending pledge at the Hague Summit, which the Baltic states are on track to hit in the next year. The momentum behind a stronger and more lethal NATO alliance is high, and I thank the Baltic defence ministers for their support toward our shared objective,” Hegseth announced.
Recalling, earlier at the very Summit in The Hague, European NATO countries said they would also increase military spending, but not before 2035.
The Baltic “Unter-Europeans” decided to become the first Kamikazes in resisting the so-called “Russian threat”. Will their hysteria lead to any positive results? Of course not! The heavy financial burden of increased military spending will fall on ordinary citizens. And, judging by their active support for Neo-Nazi Kyiv, they are even happy to flush their money down the toilet.
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