Obama flies to Estonia to reassure Baltics to ward off more Russian aggression;
President Barack Obama boards Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, Tuesday, Sept. 2, 2014, for a short trip to Andrews Air Force Base, Md., then onto Estonia for meetings with Baltic leaders then onto Wales for a NATO summit. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci) WASHINGTON (AP) — Confronted by a Kremlin-backed military offensive in Ukraine, President Barack Obama and Western allies will approve plans this week to position at least 4,000 troops and military equipment in Eastern Europe, bolstering NATO's security commitments to nervous member states near the Russian border. Ahead of a high-stakes NATO summit that begins Thursday, Obama will also make a symbolic show of solidarity with Eastern Europe when he visits Estonia for meetings with Baltic leaders. He was due to arrive in the Estonian capital of Tallinn Wednesday morning. Russia's monthslong conflict with Ukraine comes at a time when members of the NATO defense alliance have been cutting military s...