The American Peace in the Balts and the Poles

As an american and a big believer in nato and the transatlantic alliance, i'm a big fan of all those things. But that being said, a piece of this has always been that, you know, the steel in nato was american. It's why the astonians and te lithuanians and the lapians want American boots as part of the forward ployed battalions. And while i would love to see what looks like more investment in traditional defense, not just selling weapons to other people abroad. I don't give lukashenko credit he deserves for playing both sides in terms of authoritarianism. He seems to be able to play about both sides in very