US military and intelligence officials at the highest levels tell me they take care to listen to Baltic leaders. And what they hear is that NATO must not forget Russia has already proved it is capable of aggression. “In dictatorships . . . you only care about your power, the cronies around you keeping you in power,” Prime Minister Kallas told me. “You care about the army and the police and the power structures being happy, because they keep you in power. And all else, you don’t care.”
