Latvian FM: Britain should use conscription to deter Russia

Britain should consider conscripting citizens into the military to deter Russian aggression, Latvia’s Foreign Minister Krisjanis Karins said in an interview with The Telegraph, Report informs.

Krisjanis Karins also said it was “inevitable” that the UK would have to increase its defense spending to three percent of GDP.

Karins, who until September was Latvia’s prime minister, said that his country had borrowed elements from the Finnish conscription system, which “could be a very good model for many of us.”

Finland has a small standing army “but a very large, very well-trained” war-time reserve “so they can easily call up a 250,000 trained military.”