Posted on 08/16/2014 11:54:20 AM PDT by afraidfortherepublic
The White House announced Friday that President Barack Obama will jet out to the small Eastern European country of Estonia in early September, before attending a NATO meeting in Wales.
The trip is likely intended to deter Russian President Vladimir Putin from grabbing parts of Estonia and its two small neighbors, all of whom contain populations of ethnic Russians. All three countries are member of NATO, and are too small to block a determined Russian invasion.
“In light of recent developments in Ukraine, the United States has taken steps to reassure allies in Central and Eastern Europe, and this trip is a chance to reaffirm our ironclad commitment to Article V as the foundation of NATO,” said a White House statement.
The announcement comes as many media outlets report a growing Russian intervention in the battle between the Ukraine government and ethnic Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine.
Obama’s visit to the Estonia signals U.S. support for the three small countries — Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania — on Russia’s western border whose population have significant numbers of ethnic-Russians. The ethnic Russians arrived after 1939, when Josef Stalin invaded and occupied all three countries. The invasions were part of the infamous Nazi-Soviet 1939 deal with Adolf Hitler, the head of the German national socialist party, which also divided Poland between Russia and Germany.
All three countries recovered their independence after the Soviet Union collapse in 1989.
“President Obama will visit the Republic of Estonia in early September to further enhance the strong relations between the two countries, and to affirm America’s commitment to our Baltic allies,” said the White House statement.
“In [Estonia's capital] Tallinn, he will meet with President [Toomas] Ilves, as well as Prime Minister Roivas, to discuss bilateral ties, strategic and regional cooperation, and our shared commitment to the trans-Atlantic partnership,” said the statement.
“The President will also meet with the three Baltic presidents — President Ilves, President [Andris] Berzins of Latvia, and President [Dalia] Grybauskaite of Lithuania — to discuss ongoing cooperation on regional security and policies that support economic growth, and to discuss collective defense.”
obama will help you just like Iraq...
LOL uh huh.
I feel much safer now that Howdy Doody is riding to the rescue.
If invaded, US will send MREs
I can just see him riding in on a white, check that, black horse with his black mask to save the day.
It will be like having a visit from your Crazy Aunt
Ok somebody call a cease fire until then. LOL
Will Obama show his solidarity by opening his address with a few words in Baltic?
0bama is a provocation.
0bama is a double-dog dare ya. Uncle Putty is more than willing to play that bluff. When did Bathhouse Barry ever back anything up? Except his rear end when he was ready for a Reggie weggie.
Do the Estonians not know that this is the “kiss of death?” Putin may have had no designs on Estonia until now. Now Estonia is doomed. “Detroit is our future.” “The siege is over.” “The Middle East is now at peace.” In six months President Urkel will be saying, “Did I do that?”
Has he said, “If you like your country, you can keep your country!”, yet?
Obama will bat at least .500. He’s going to visit Estonia and Wales, and it’s very unlikely Putin will try to invade Wales.
That should make Putin laugh.
Maybe they turn the clock back to ala 1914 Sarajevo?? Actually this time, once the cheers die down, no one would care.
“Today, I can announce that our review is complete, and that the United States will pursue a new strategy to end the war in Iraq through a transition to full Iraqi responsibility.
This strategy is grounded in a clear and achievable goal shared by the Iraqi people and the American people: an Iraq that is sovereign, stable, and self-reliant.
[W]e will work to promote an Iraqi government that is just, representative, and accountable, and that provides neither support nor safe haven to terrorists.” - Obama in 2011
I think you’re thinking of the Balkans, lol.
I know my geography that is why I said “ala”. I also know he is not an archduke, he is already King of the Planet.
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