Latvia made a statement, which, as noted in the Latvian media, "For the first time questioned the strategic partnership with the United States in the military sphere". A statement of this kind made president of the Baltic republic Raymond Vejonis. According to him, "The whole of Europe is beginning to realize, that only the United States can not expect to issue several calls, among them Russia ".
Vejonis noted, Europe draws attention to the instability in the Middle East and Africa. According to him, uncontrolled flows of migrants have become one of the most serious threats to the EU. Also, Latvian president said, that looks threatening "the growing power of China and Russia showing muscles" for Europe.
Veyonys:
Our unity is under threat. We need to understand, it is time to strengthen the European "soft" security. We need to deal with hybrid threats.
Vejonis hinted, that the forces, that "for the protection of" Europe applied the US, "Not enough". And they are just hard to fight for the security of Europe, or still trying to reach only their own goals?
Recall, Earlier, German Chancellor Angela Merkel said, that Europe's time to think about their own measures to improve safety, and cease to rely solely on this issue in the United States of America. Germany also notes, that is not yet ready to raise contributions from the budget in the NATO structures to 2% VVP, as this will be more than 70 billion a year.
