European NATO allies should have a ”clear roadmap” spelling out how any U.S. pullout from the continent would work, Finnish Defense Minister Antti Häkkänen told POLITICO.
“We need to have some sort of joint plan with Americans about a roadmap if the Americans are shifting the balance in the Pacific area in conventional defense capabilities,” he said in a phone interview following an informal meeting of EU defense ministers in Warsaw.
He called for a ”clear roadmap” from Washington ”so that there will be no kind of window of opportunity for Russia to try something,” and said that U.S plans should coordinate with EU initiatives to boost the bloc’s defense capacity. Läs artikel