{"id":315692,"date":"2025-09-23T05:50:15","date_gmt":"2025-09-23T05:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315692"},"modified":"2025-09-24T07:53:48","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T07:53:48","slug":"trump-says-he-would-help-defend-poland-and-baltic-states-if-russia-keeps-escalating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=315692","title":{"rendered":"Trump says he &#8216;would&#8217; help defend Poland and Baltic states if Russia keeps escalating"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0Katarzyna-Maria Skiba \u2013 Euro News Sept 22, 2025<\/strong><\/h1>\n<p><strong>Donald Trump has said he would defend Poland and the Baltic states if Russia escalates further, as NATO countries seek stronger responses to Russian provocations in Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>US President Donald Trump stated on Sunday that he would help defend Poland and the Baltic states if Russia keeps escalating.<\/p>\n<p>Answering a question by a journalist from the Italian news agency Ansa on whether the US would come to the aid of its NATO allies on the border with Russia, Trump said, \u201cYeah, I would. I would.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s answer prior to attending the memorial service of conservative influencer Charlie Kirk in Arizona comes at a time of increased pressure from NATO regarding increased levels of Russian escalation in Europe.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, Russian fighter jets violated NATO airspace in Estonia for 12 minutes, causing the country to invoke NATO Article 4 and an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council. Earlier in September, a total of 19 drones reportedly violated Polish airspace, prompting Warsaw to take action.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe must respond appropriately, including possibly shooting down Russian aircraft,\u201d Czech President Petr Pavel said.<\/p>\n<p>\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; Pavel added.<\/p>\n<p>Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile \u0160akaliene also suggested that Russian drones be shot down in a post published on X.<\/p>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Three russian fighter jets over Tallinn is one more hard proof that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/EasternSentry?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#EasternSentry<\/a> is long due.<\/p>\n<p>NATOs border in the North East is being tested for a reason.<\/p>\n<p>We need to mean business.<\/p>\n<p>PS. T\u00fcrkiye set an example 10 years ago.<br \/>\nSome food for thought.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dovil\u0117 \u0160akalien\u0117 (@DSakaliene) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/DSakaliene\/status\/1969060416954208294?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 19, 2025<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#8220;Three russian fighter jets over Tallinn is one more hard proof that Eastern Sentry is long due. NATO&#8217;s border in the northeast is being tested for a reason. We need to mean business. PS: Turkey set an example 10 years ago. Some food for thought,&#8221; \u0160akaliene wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Poland&#8217;s Foreign Minister Rados\u0142aw Sikorski has also called for more urgent NATO reactions on Sunday, as it reacted to the latest infringement into Estonian airspace.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cNATO should react very firmly and unequivocally to Russia\u2019s provocations,\u201d Sikorski 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 on Monday &#8220;the United Nations Security Council will convene an emergency meeting in response to Russia\u2019s brazen violation of Estonian airspace last Friday.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.euronews.com\/my-europe\/2025\/09\/21\/trump-says-he-would-help-defend-poland-and-baltic-states-if-russia-keeps-escalating\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lithuanian Defence Minister Dovile \u0160akaliene has suggested that Russian drones be shot down if they enter NATO member\u2019s airspace,\u201d to show that we mean business\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-315692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-Inside_the_White_House_and_Washingtons_Beltway","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=315692"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315694,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/315692\/revisions\/315694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=315692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=315692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=315692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}