What If Trump Calls Putin? Balts and Poles Worry After Syria
- Despite tweets, administration has boosted NATO commitments
- Advice to widen security partners beyond just the U.S.
Vladimir Putin, left, and Donald Trump attend the 2019 G20 summit.
Photographer: Mikhail Metzel/TASS via Getty Images
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Estonia is more than 2,000 miles from the Levant, yet ripples from President Donald Trump’s recent actions in Syria are reaching all the way to the Baltic Sea.
Trump’s Oct. 6 decision to withdraw troops from parts of Northern Syria was made in a phone call with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that caught other NATO allies, as well as the Pentagon, by surprise.