Pence takes tough tone on Russia 🇷🇺 after retaliation

Vice President Pence 🇺🇸, on his first full day in Eastern Europe, offered a clear and direct message to Russia 🇷🇺, warning the Kremlin that the United States 🇺🇸 will not tolerate Russian force or intimidation toward its neighbors and reassuring the Baltic States that the United States supports them in the face of "the specter of aggression from your unpredictable neighbor to the east."

"Under President 🇺🇸 Donald Trump, the United States of America rejects any attempt to use force, threats, intimidation, or malign influence in the Baltic States or against any of our treaty allies," Pence said Monday morning, speaking 🔉 alongside 3️⃣ Baltic leaders at the Estonian president's office here.

The vice president's remarks 🔉, at a joint news conference 📹 with the presidents of Estonia 🇪🇪, Latvia 🇱🇻 and Lithuania 🇱🇹, gave a preview of the roughly 20-minute speech 🔉 Pence delivered just hours later outside the headquarters of the Estonian🇪🇪 Defense Forces, in which he again offered a stern rebuke of Russia's recent actions to undermine democratic nations, including the United States.🇺🇸

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