Would the U.S. fight a nuclear war to save Estonia? The question would probably strike most Americans as absurd. Certainly, almost no one was thinking about such a prospect when NATO expanded to include the Baltic states back in 2004.
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Soldiers stand next to a US Air Force F-15C "Eagle" jet during an exercise of NATO's Baltic air-policing mission at the Siauliai Air Base in Siauliai, Lithuania, Aug. 30, 2017.
