EU foreign policy chief: Accusations against NATO unfair and insulting
European Union foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas explained on the "Esimene stuudio" talk show why Donald Trump's attacks on NATO are painful for allies and why Ukraine must not be pressured into unfair concessions. Kallas emphasized that diplomacy and unity are the only tools to prevent brute force from prevailing in the world.
When we conducted interviews during your time as prime minister, we often began by tallying up the crises. It now seems the world has gone completely off the rails. Does the world and the international order we've known perhaps since the end of the Cold War still exist or has it in fact already begun to break down?
It has certainly changed. If we think about it, a rules-based international order was already being attempted after the First World War with the League of Nations, but that did not truly succeed in maintaining peace. After the Second World War, the United Nations and the UN Charter were established, laying out all of these principles.
However, we can see that these principles are being violated. This effectively began with Russia's attack on Ukraine and unfortunately there have been more such developments. There are certainly major powers that would prefer a world based on the idea that whoever has power can take whatever they want. But most countries in the world still want the international system to be based on rules.
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A few more paragraphs down in the interview, Kallas goes on to say that there has been no request to NATO. And for Article 5 to be invoked, I always thought a NATO member had to be attacked to make such a request.