As US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken recalled during a joint press conference with Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kallas, “an attack on one of the NATO countries means an attack on all of us.” In addition, Blinken said that US President Joe Biden had decided to allocate $10 billion to strengthen Ukraine’s defense capability, as well as to increase humanitarian aid.
Anthony Blinken called on Russia to open humanitarian corridors and said that the West would do everything to protect the population of Ukraine from Russian aggression. He also said that assistance and efforts to increase Ukraine’s self-defense capacity would be increased.
“Russia is becoming a pariah”
– In recent months, we have seen increased aggression from Moscow. We are preparing for an even worse scenario, the US Secretary of State acknowledged. He added that in recent days there has been a “critical moment” for Europe and the world.
– One of the weaknesses of the autocracy is the lack of access to information, so we are doing everything possible to resist Russia in the information war. “President Putin is turning Russia into a pariah,” commented Anthony Blinken.
Paralysis of the Russian military machine
The Prime Minister of Estonia stated that it is necessary to effectively isolate Russia from the free world. According to her, Russian and Belarusian banks should be cut off from the SWIFT system, trading and trading of cryptocurrencies in Russia should be restricted, and European ports should be closed to Russian ships. According to her, new tools will be found to paralyze the Russian war machine.
She stressed that the security situation requires rapid changes throughout the European Union and Estonian defense policy. She said that the Estonian government is increasing defense spending to 2.45%. GDP. Callas said American help is needed to end the war, and the democratic world must demonstrate its resolve.
– Deputy Chairman of the Security Council of Russia Dmitry Medvedev should have told Putin (President of Russia) that sooner or later the West will get tired of fighting Russia and imposing sanctions. (…) We will prove that the Russians are wrong, summed up the Prime Minister of Estonia.