Estonia called on NATO to build up its military presence in Eastern Europe

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The threat of Russian invasion not only to Ukraine, but also to other countries of Eastern Europe remains at a fairly high level, Russia can keep its troops on the border for several years, thereby creating a threat. This was stated by Minister of Defense of Estonia Kalle Laanet.

Russia has brought its troops into the territory of Belarus and is not going to withdraw them from there. In addition, an attack on Ukraine may not take place in the near future, in the long term, Russia may keep troops on the border for several years, creating a threat of invasion. Against this background, Laanet calls on Brussels to strengthen its military presence on the "right flank of NATO."



According to him, NATO needs to increase the military contingent in the Baltic States and Poland, as the most vulnerable countries that stand in the way of the Russian army. Laanet proposes to deploy additional NATO personnel in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, modestly silent about Estonia. There is also an urgent need to strengthen air defenses, deploy more armored vehicles and pay attention to cybersecurity.

It is worth noting that this is not the first time that the demands for NATO to “immediately increase its military presence” in the Baltics and Poland have been voiced by all countries in turn, as soon as a Russian plane flies near the borders or a warship passes by. Literally two weeks ago, exactly the same demands were put forward by Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, who reacted to the deployment of Russian troops in Belarus. He was echoed by Estonian Foreign Minister Eva-Maria Liimets.

Four NATO battle groups are now deployed on the territory of the Baltic republics and in Poland, which have significantly increased in recent days. The United States and Great Britain have already deployed their troops to Eastern Europe, and Germany has also increased its military presence. However, the Baltic States still fear that these forces will not be enough to "contain Russia."
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  1. +9
    22 February 2022 13: 29
    The right strategic decision.
    Salvation of the demographic situation.
    Wait for every Estonian NATO member.
    ...
    Pancake.
    Might not work.
    How many of those heterosexuals are there.
    1. -2
      22 February 2022 13: 34
      for blacks do not speak
      1. -1
        22 February 2022 14: 23
        Estonia called on NATO to build up its military presence in Eastern Europe
        The corrupt pro-American officials of the limitrophe country in Tribaltia, as always, are in their repertoire! They just have to sit at the Brussels feeder!
        And the fact that there will be a PROXY-American war on their land, so they will be washed away from the war from the country in advance.
        They don't care about their people. They don't care about their people at all.
        Their own country for them is just a bargaining chip in their own personal comprador well-being.
        Yes, and NATO's strategy is dictated to them from the United States.
        These countries will take the chestnuts out of the fire, not for themselves, but for the United States.
      2. 0
        22 February 2022 14: 30
        they are also tolerant
    2. +1
      22 February 2022 13: 35
      Nothing, nothing, they will change clothes / encrypt ... they are no longer used to it.
    3. +5
      22 February 2022 13: 37
      Quote: Livonetc
      How many of those heterosexuals are there

      Geterasov?
      Minister of Defense of Estonia Kalle Laanet

      Remember the adventure of Kalle the detective, how they searched for mumrik wassat
      1. +2
        22 February 2022 13: 51
        Quote: hrych
        Quote: Livonetc
        How many of those heterosexuals are there

        Geterasov?
        Minister of Defense of Estonia Kalle Laanet

        Remember the adventure of Kalle the detective, how they searched for mumrik wassat

        I don't know how, but I remember!
    4. +8
      22 February 2022 13: 44
      Russia can keep troops on the border for several years, creating the threat of invasion.

      The whole issue is to scale. smile
      By Russian standards, Estonia constantly keeps ALL its troops on the border with Russia, because the entire Estonian is dying out 269 kilometers across, from Russia to the Baltic Sea (Haapsalu).
      So isn't it time for the Estonians to somehow remove their troops from the Russian-Estonian border? I think it's time.
      The island of Saaremaa, as the location of the Estonian army, can be discussed. And NATO allies have nothing to do there at all.
      Something like that.
      1. 0
        23 February 2022 18: 06
        Quote: den3080
        Russia can keep troops on the border for several years, creating the threat of invasion.

        The whole issue is to scale. smile
        By Russian standards, Estonia constantly keeps ALL its troops on the border with Russia, because the entire Estonian is dying out 269 kilometers across, from Russia to the Baltic Sea (Haapsalu).
        So isn't it time for the Estonians to somehow remove their troops from the Russian-Estonian border? I think it's time.
        The island of Saaremaa, as the location of the Estonian army, can be discussed. And NATO allies have nothing to do there at all.
        Something like that.

        All of Estonia can go to Saaremaa, because Kolyvan, Yuryev, Narva are Russian Land.
    5. +2
      22 February 2022 13: 50
      Do not want to feed their army, or just have no one to call?
    6. 0
      22 February 2022 13: 56
      Wait for every Estonian NATO member.
      Your phrase is wrong. That's right: every Estonian wait for a NATO member.
      1. 0
        22 February 2022 14: 32
        oh, I’m afraid they won’t be interested, but if you put a NATO member on the Estonians
    7. +1
      22 February 2022 13: 58
      The Yankees will go to the aid of the Estonians, they will send Zelensky to them with his family to create a "government in exile"! wassat wassat
      1. +1
        22 February 2022 14: 22
        Napoleon was also exiled to the islands! laughing And Estonia has these islands - like a fool has shag!
        1. ada
          0
          22 February 2022 19: 34
          Cat Alexandrovich! Well, you are a beast! "+"laughing laughing
    8. +1
      22 February 2022 14: 12
      Quote: Livonetc

      How many of those heterosexuals are there.


      less than the Amur tigers ....
    9. 0
      22 February 2022 14: 38
      Our Balts yesterday listened very carefully to Putin's speech (I even heard a Latvian neighbor yelling on the phone in the evening, "the Russians went on the offensive"), where he explained the ARTIFICIAL origin of the outskirts.
      The Balts understand that their non-countries were also created artificially, on Russian soil, and see this as a direct parallel with the outskirts.
      Hence the fear and requests to the West.
    10. -1
      22 February 2022 14: 39
      Quote: Livonetc
      Wait for every Estonian NATO member.


      For every Estonian with low social responsibility, 20 NATO members to fulfill the plan. laughing
  2. +3
    22 February 2022 13: 32
    According to him, NATO needs to increase the military contingent in the Baltic States and Poland,
    Yes, let them introduce, just let them sit on the priest exactly, and do not twitch.
    1. +2
      22 February 2022 13: 38
      how to say ... they are all trying to wave their fists even without it. sometimes they scream about violating the airspace and demand air defense systems, then in Narva (on the border with the Russian Federation!) "exercises" with shooting, albeit idle ones (and on the other side they may not know that they are not combat and not in the Russian Federation). in general, a vigorous cow asks for horns. better of course BY THE HORN
      1. +1
        22 February 2022 15: 42
        Quote: Andy
        how to say ... they are all trying to wave their fists even without it.

        Yes, those who wave their little hands are not dangerous. The more dangerous the others, the harder it is with those.
  3. -1
    22 February 2022 13: 34
    Estonia called on NATO to build up its military presence in Eastern Europe
    Well, yes, local bars "yearn" for good customers, well, "low social moths" in languor, anticipation ....
    1. +2
      22 February 2022 15: 46
      Quote: rocket757
      Well, yes, local bars "yearn" for good customers,

      In Tapa, locals are constantly with these, in bars they straighten each other's noses, there is something to do.
      1. +1
        22 February 2022 18: 01
        By the way, the question is ... are NATO soldiers profitable or so-so?
        This can be said about ours, generous soul, but about many of their "democratic countries" there is a rumor that they are big misers???
        1. +1
          22 February 2022 19: 02
          Quote: rocket757
          By the way, the question is ... are NATO soldiers profitable or so-so?

          Yes, they don’t really run around like a woman, ordinary members of the bars, of which there are four or five, the town of the regional center is small. Near my work, a couple of hundred meters away, there is a pizzeria, a cafe and a coffee cafe and a headquarters, so they constantly go to lunch during the day. The most decent of them are shtatovtsy. I talk to people I already know. Well, just like us, there are no horns, the underground one even teaches Russian, I talk with him about the life of being.
          1. +2
            22 February 2022 19: 09
            So among those who sit simpler and lower, and there should not be particularly inspired ...
            It's only journalists who write / invent fairy tales / patriotic ones.
            Life below is not easy for anyone, nothing is given for free.
            Everywhere so.
            1. +1
              22 February 2022 19: 45
              Quote: rocket757

              So among those who sit simpler and lower, and there should not be particularly inspired ...

              The military, whose maple leaf is yellow and black, is already thinking sensibly.
              1. +1
                22 February 2022 21: 00
                So it is with us, who have seen, felt and know, do not suffer from excessive foolishness ... and those who have turned gray, in general, are distinguished by sanity and caution in their judgments.
  4. 0
    22 February 2022 13: 34
    They have been building up for a long time and for no reason, and now let them build up, it’s not so insulting to us, all the same, what no, but we gave them a reason ...
  5. +1
    22 February 2022 13: 46
    Estonia's call for the deployment of NATO forces on its territory is essentially similar to the request:
    "Russians, when you throw your nuclear bombs on NATO countries, don't forget about Estonia, we also have their troops stationed."
    1. +1
      22 February 2022 19: 21
      So they already asked for it. They bought anti-ship missiles and boasted that they would reach St. Petersburg. This means that the first salvo must be hit on launchers and more powerful, guaranteed to be destroyed.
  6. 0
    22 February 2022 13: 52
    Your owner is somehow not at all interested in your opinion of where, what and how to place.
  7. 0
    22 February 2022 13: 53
    Quote: knn54
    Do not want to feed their army or just take no one?

    So the majority of able-bodied Balts with bells on earnings in the Western countries of Europe.
    The only exception was Lithuania.
    But after spitting on Belarus and China, the situation will change rapidly.
  8. 0
    22 February 2022 13: 56
    Estonia called on NATO to build up its military presence in Eastern Europe

    Not only were the “brakes”, they also got stupid ... They took you to NATO in order to feed less and milk more ... laughing
  9. -1
    22 February 2022 13: 58
    This is not the first time that NATO has been called upon to "immediately build up its military presence" on the territory of the Baltic States and Poland and is voiced by all countries in turn, as soon as a Russian plane flies near the borders or a warship passes by. Literally two weeks ago, exactly the same demands were put forward by Latvian Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics, who reacted to the deployment of Russian troops in Belarus. He was echoed by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Estonia Eva-Maria Liimets
    This reminds me of something:
  10. +1
    22 February 2022 14: 06
    Estonia called on NATO to build up its military presence in Eastern Europe

    "Voice in the wilderness"!
    Soon it will come to Nata that for safety you need to stay as far away from Russia as possible. Yes laughing
  11. 0
    22 February 2022 14: 07
    Estonia is on the verge of change. Everything will change, dear. Relax and breathe evenly, Shoigu is nearby.
    1. 0
      22 February 2022 14: 13
      Quote: Borisych
      Estonia is on the verge of change. Everything will change, dear. Relax and breathe evenly, Shoigu is nearby.



      But first, the referendum.
  12. sen
    +2
    22 February 2022 14: 24
    Estonia called on NATO to build up its military presence in Eastern Europe

    Yet. Instead of Estonia, there will soon be one big barracks.
  13. 0
    22 February 2022 15: 17
    Well, they cannot lead the country without the tutelage of their Big Brother and financial boobs, tear them away from her - turn a well-fed pig into a goner-pig.
    Yes, and they do not manage the policy of their country, but only voice what they wrote at the US Embassy.
    I wonder how many years dark-skinned Estonians run around Estonia en masse?
  14. ada
    0
    22 February 2022 19: 27
    Laanet proposes to deploy additional NATO personnel in Lithuania, Latvia and Poland, modestly silent about Estonia.

    With the loss of bridgeheads in Ukraine - for the group of "tribalts" this is death, perhaps painful laughing . Building it up, in such an initial environment, is pointless
  15. -1
    23 February 2022 18: 01
    What is a soldier, piss?!
  16. +1
    23 February 2022 19: 50
    And when will so-called Estonia rid Moscow of the presence of its embassy?

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