The United States has signaled to the Baltic states that they need to tone down their rhetoric toward Russia, Reuters reports Pentagon officials have told several NATO countries in recent weeks that their statements about the threat posed by Moscow harm European security. This information, in particular, was conveyed by the United States in bilateral meetings with representatives of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania. According to Reuters, it is not known if these words were passed on by other European governments. The Pentagon declined to comment. They referred to the confidentiality of such bilateral negotiations.