Despite being worried about an increased Russian military presence, the Baltic nations are still congratulating America’s new leader, Donald Trump.
Tensions grew during the U.S. presidential election campaign when Trump floated the idea that NATO members’ defense spending targets would be a prerequisite for the U.S. to defend a NATO ally.
In neighboring Latvia, President Raimonds Vejonis’s office says he is looking forward “to close relations with the new U.S. administration,” and that the U.S. would remain a strategic partner and important NATO ally.
The leaders of the nationalist Alternative for Germany party, which campaigns against Chancellor Angela Merkel’s refugee policy, have welcomed …read more
Source: San Francisco Chronicle
