Chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Mark Milley was in Estonia this morning where he met with Estonian defense chief Martin Herem at the Ämari Air Base. The Estonian news service ERR reported that an evening TV news show called “Aktuaalne kaamera” reported that Milley said the USA is committed to NATO and its Article 5 collective defense clause. “I’m here to re-emphasise that message and to assure our partners that the United States of America is with them as part of NATO and the other piece is to defer any further territorial aggression from Russia,” he said. “There is no indication right now of a Russian attack on Estonia or any other of these Baltic countries but we want to make sure it stays that way.”
Herem said that for Estonia, the threat does not end when Russia’s military campaign ends in Ukraine. “We remain in danger. And we discussed what we will do when this threat reaches us, our region,” he said. The U.S.’s role in the region was also discussed.
