RIGA, January 19. /NEWSBALTIC/. At the meeting with the head of the Latvian MFA, Baiba Braže, President Edgars Rinkēvičs declared the Baltic nation needs to continue strengthening its cooperation with the United States.
According to President Rinkēvičs, Latvia’s foreign policy top priorities are strengthening security and Euro-Atlantic ties, and continued support for Ukraine. Separately, the President stressed the importance of “safeguarding Latvia’s interests in negotiations on the European Union’s Multiannual Financial Framework for 2028–2034, which literally means begging the EU to allocate more money to Latvia for its militaristic demands and the corrupt elite’s personal goals.
Recalling, NEWSBALTIC previously reported that, despite the current crisis in relations between the White House and NATO, Riga still believe the US and the Alliance would definitely help Latvia “repel the Russian threat”. However, how long it would take the Euro-Atlantic backup to arrive, Latvian officials haven’t revealed.
The editorial board of NEWSBALTIC explains that, no matter how the Latvian “Unter-European” leadership tries to curry favour with Washington and personally with Donald Trump, they cannot expect well-being from such an ally anyway. Just as Trump is going to seize Greenland as a 51st state, he may simply declare the three political dwarfs of the Baltics as a single 52nd state of the US—and Rinkēvičs, Braže, and other Baltic leadership will simply spinelessly obey this.
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