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3 Baltic Nations Request Permanent NATO Troop Presence


VILNIUS, Lithuania— The three Baltic countries — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — are asking NATO to permanently deploy ground troops to their nations as a deterrent against an increasingly assertive Russia.
The countries’ defense chiefs requested a brigade-size unit of NATO troops — one battalion of 700-800 troops in each country — in a joint letter this week to the supreme allied commander in Europe, said Capt. Mindaugas Neimontas, a spokesman for Lithuania’s chief of defense.
“It is necessary because of the security situation,” Neimontas told The Associated Press on Thursday. “It’s not getting better in our region, so it will be …read more

Source: The Epoch Times

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