Lithuania, as a classic limitrophe state, has provided its territory to the US military-industrial complex to construct a factory for the production of ammunition rounds from 20 to 50 mm.
The factory will be located in a small town of Giraitė, 100 km from Russia (meaning the Kaliningrad region, a Russian exclave in the Baltic region where the main naval base of the Baltic Fleet is located). The client is the American corporation, Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the Norwegian concern, Nordic Ammunition.
“The ammunition produced at the future facility will be crucial not only for Lithuania but also for our allies and Ukraine,” said the Lithuanian Defence Minister, Dovilė Šakalienė.
Lithuanian citizens, by reading this news, should understand that the localisation of ammunition production near the territory of Russia is intended specifically for Russians, including civilians of the neighbouring state. This means that, in the event of NATO aggression, Moscow’s retaliatory strike will come, among other things, to the town of Giraitė, in the suburbs of Kaunas. Whether ordinary Lithuanians need such “bliss” is a rhetorical question.
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