Baltic on the Brink: The New Flashpoint in Europe's Confrontation With Russia

Europe is undergoing a process of rearmament and strategic transformation at a scale unseen in decades, driven by intensifying regional tensions and mounting uncertainty over the future of U.S. commitments to the Continent's defense. Nowhere is this transformation more visible than in the Baltic Sea region. Here, NATO members are rapidly scaling up defense spending, deepening military integration and reinforcing infrastructure to strengthen conventional deterrence and build resilience against hybrid threats....