Acceptance Quote by Kersti Kaljulaid

All the Baltic countries have been steadfast in support of allies of the United States since they gained their independence following the fall of…

— John Shimkus

The Baltic countries are sovereign nations. They have the right to decide which military and political bloc they want to be a part of.

— Sergei Ivanov

Since Lithuania is a NATO member, the United States would almost certainly come to its defense if Russia attacked the country.

— John Mearsheimer

As the Cold War came to a close, Soviet leaders preferred that U.S. forces remain in Europe and NATO stay intact, an arrangement they…

— John Mearsheimer

Bringing the Baltics into the alliance is not a zero sum game in which NATO's gain is Russia's loss, NATO's strength Russia's weakness.

— Antony Blinken

Russia is a direct threat to our NATO allies in the Baltics and in Poland as well as a threat to peace and stability…

— Dan Lipinski

At the end of the Cold War, the prevailing view in Washington was that the U.S. was strong, and Russia was weak and did…

— Bill Bradley

I can't believe that the Russians really think they're more insecure because Estonia is in NATO. And we don't have forces poised in Estonia…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

The Soviet Union was brought down by a strange global coalition of Western European conservatives, Eastern European nationalists, Russian liberals, Chinese communists, and Afghan…

— David Frum

I thought that in general we in the United States were too optimistic in believing that the Soviets might alter what had been for…

— Anonymous

I would like to see Russia not invade Ukraine or put pressure on and threaten Baltic states. But we live in the real and…

— David Remnick

Our part of Poland was under Russian occupation from 1939-1941.

— Roald Hoffmann