{"id":20825,"date":"2025-12-18T22:46:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20825"},"modified":"2025-12-18T22:46:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T22:46:10","slug":"frontline-states-want-eu-cash-as-russian-threat-intensifies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=20825","title":{"rendered":"Frontline states want EU cash as Russian threat intensifies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>&#8220;In recent months Russia has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/russian-fighter-jets-breach-estonian-airspace-near-tallinn\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">flown fighter jets into Estonian airspace<\/a>&nbsp;and sent&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/poland-scrambles-fighters-shoots-down-russian-drones-after-airspace-violations-ukraine-warning\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">dozens of drones deep into Polish and Romanian territory<\/a>. Its ally Belarus has&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/lithuania-declares-national-state-emergency-smuggling-balloons-belarus-border\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">repeatedly brought Lithuanian air traffic to a standstill<\/a>&nbsp;by allowing giant balloons to cross its borders. And last week, Moscow\u2019s top envoy Sergey Lavrov&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.is.fi\/ulkomaat\/art-2000011687044.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">issued a veiled threat to Finland<\/a>&nbsp;to exit NATO.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/frontline-states-eu-cash-russia-threat-defense\">https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/frontline-states-eu-cash-russia-threat-defense<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In recent months Russia has flown fighter jets into Estonian airspace and sent dozens of drones deep into Polish and Romanian territory. Its ally Belarus has repeatedly brought Lithuanian air traffic to a standstill by allowing giant balloons to cross its borders. And last week, Moscow\u2019s top envoy Sergey Lavrov issued a veiled threat to Finland to exit NATO.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.politico.eu\/article\/frontline-states-eu-cash-russia-threat-defense\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[390,924,2252,728,923,1695,272,355,314,259,1070,315,1055],"class_list":["post-20825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-diplomacy","tag-eastern-europe","tag-estonia","tag-europe","tag-european-union","tag-finland","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-military","tag-nato","tag-russia","tag-weapons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20825"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20826,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20825\/revisions\/20826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}