Eastern Europe Can Only Count on Itself
Max Boot, Council on Foreign Relations | August 25, 2008
Poles, Czechs and Hungarians should be under no illusion that they can count on the US in case of a crisis. ++ In the past the US used to leave its Eastern European allies in the lurch and its recent reaction to Georgia’s plight was no different. ++ The only thing that the frontline states can do is to count on themselves. ++ They should make a larger commitment to their own defense, staring with doubling their – currently very low – military spending. ++ This would make them “porcupine states that even the Russian bear can't swallow.”
