{"id":441801,"date":"2025-09-21T21:33:13","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:33:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441801\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T21:33:13","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T21:33:13","slug":"trump-says-he-would-help-defend-poland-and-baltic-states-if-russia-keeps-escalating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/441801\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he &#8216;would&#8217; help defend Poland and Baltic states if Russia keeps escalating"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>          <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"c-ad__placeholder__logo\" src=\"https:\/\/static.euronews.com\/website\/images\/logos\/logo-euronews-stacked-outlined-72x72-grey-9.svg\" width=\"72\" height=\"72\" alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n          ADVERTISEMENT<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s answer comes at a time of increased pressure from NATO regarding increased levels of Russian escalation in Europe. Several countries, including Lithuania, Estonia, and the Czech Republic, have urged NATO to implement a stronger response to Russian provocations, including shooting down Russian jets that breach the alliance\u2019s borders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The reactions come after Russia violated NATO airspace in Estonia for 12 minutes on Friday, causing the country to invoke NATO article 4 and an emergency meeting of the UN security council. About a week and a half ago, an estimated 19 drones violated Polish airspace, causing Poland to do the same.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must respond appropriately, including possibly shooting down Russian aircraft,\u201d he said, adding: \u201cWhat has happened in recent days in Poland and Estonia, and what has been happening in Ukraine for four years now, concerns us all. If we don&#8217;t stick together, sooner or later it will happen to us too,&#8221;  Czech President Petr Pavel said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian defense minister Dovile Sakaliene also suggested that Russian drones be shot down in a post published on X. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Three russian fighter jets over Tallinn is one more hard proof that <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hashtag\/EasternSentry?src=hashtag_click\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer\">#EasternSentry<\/a> is long due. NATOs border in the North East is being tested for a reason. We need to mean business. PS. T\u00fcrkiye set an example 10 years ago. Some food for thought,&#8221; she wrote. <\/p>\n<p>Poland\u2019s defense minister  also called for more urgent NATO reactions on Sunday, as he reacted to the latest infringement into Estonian airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNATO should react very firmly and unequivocally to Russia\u2019s provocations,\u201d he said on Sunday in Boguchwa\u0142a in the Podkarpacie region.<\/p>\n<p>In response to the most recent violations of their airspace, the Estonian foreign ministry announced that \u201cOn September 22&#8230; the United Nations Security Council will convene an emergency meeting in response to Russia\u2019s brazen violation of Estonian airspace last Friday.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ADVERTISEMENT Trump\u2019s answer comes at a time of increased pressure from NATO regarding increased levels of Russian escalation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441802,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7655],"tags":[32,770,332,335],"class_list":{"0":"post-441801","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-russia","8":"tag-donald-trump","9":"tag-poland","10":"tag-russia","11":"tag-war-in-ukraine"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115244435922466466","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}