Former President of Estonia Kersti Kaljulaid has noted favorably an apparent push by the United States for many Western European nations to increase their defense spending, highlighting NATO’s unfair burden on Eastern flank nations.
At the same time, Kaljulaid said that a widely criticized speech by U.S. Vice President J.D. Vance at last week’s Munich Security Conference disrupted the event’s political culture and also missed the key point in relation to Russia.
Kaljulaid noted that the new U.S. administration may at least bring home some unpalatable truths to some of the Western European nations when it comes to defense spending and the Russian threat.
“Just as during Trump’s first term — what should we have against it when a major ally finally tells Western Europe the truth?” she noted on her social media account.
Underlying this was a deep sense of unfairness when comparing the situation on NATO’s eastern flank with that in some of the larger and more comfortably off western countries.
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