Austin on mission to reassure US allies on front lines with Russia

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‘REASSURING AND REINFORCING’: Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin is in Tbilisi, Georgia, today, the first stop on a weeklong mission to reassure nervous allies that the United States won’t abandon them in the face of Moscow’s expansionist aims.

“We are reassuring and reinforcing the sovereignty of countries that are on the front lines of Russian aggression,” a senior defense official said Friday at a background briefing for reporters traveling with Austin to Europe.

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