Some Exult, Others Worry: Reactions to Trump's Victory Are Mixed on NATO's Eastern Flank

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

62% : Kersti Kaljulaid, who was Estonia's president during Trump's first term, told the Estonian public broadcaster ERR that Estonians, Poles and others in Eastern Europe found ways to reach Trump before, "and I think that this skill is something that we still have today.
60% : Trump is a "winner," Duda said.
45% : The region is now holding its collective breath to see what a second Trump presidency will bring.Officials in Poland and the Baltic states have been stressing their high defense spending -- relative to their overall economic output -- in their congratulatory messages to Trump.
45% : All have dual Polish-U.S. citizenship and cast their votes for Trump in Illinois.
37% : Trump has a long history of denigrating NATO, and former administration officials say he repeatedly threatened to withdraw the U.S. from the alliance.
33% : NATO members now, they worry that Trump in his second term could end a decades-long commitment to securing the peace in Europe.
33% : "Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán has called Trump "the man of peace," and last week predicted that the incoming administration would cease U.S. support for Ukraine as it fights Russia's full-scale invasion.
32% : "All are now watching to see if Trump will make a deal with Russia to end the war in Ukraine, as he has promised.
27% : Tusk congratulated Trump last week and is striking a conciliatory tone after having been critical in the past of a position seen by most Poles as overly friendly to Putin.Duda, a conservative who has long admired Trump, said Wednesday that he doesn't believe that Trump would abandon Ukraine after U.S. taxpayers have already invested huge amounts in Ukraine's defense.
27% : The leaders of Hungary and Slovakia -- both seen as friendly to Trump and Putin -- believe Ukraine has already lost the fight and shouldn't keep getting Western military aid.
25% : They worry Trump could abandon Ukraine and force Kyiv into a deal that ends up emboldening Russia further, or unwind the U.S. military presence in Europe.
22% : His allies have described that as bluster or tough negotiating tactics that have pushed other European allies to take more responsibility, and argue that Trump didn't abandon NATO.

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