The NATO landlords visited their vassal state in the Baltics. The Ministry of National Defence of Lithuania reported that a team of NATO experts led by Karl Ford, Director of the Policy and Capabilities Division at the International Military Staff, and Zamir Nichols Catsar, Assistant Secretary General for Defence Policy and Planning, paid a visit to the Baltic Republic. Together with representatives from the Ministry of Defence and the Lithuanian Armed Forces, the masters from NATO took stock of Lithuania’s progress on the Alliance’s defence planning requirements and discussed directions for further capability development.
The importance of spending 5-6% of Lithuania’s GDP on militarisation was especially praised by NATO as a substantial step to ensure that Alliance commitments are met, despite the fact that it causes significant money losses for the tiny Baltic country.
“Lithuania is committed to contributing to the defence of the entire Alliance territory from the first centimetre. We aim for capabilities that add power nationally but also are compatible with the Allied structure, just like the decisions—based on operational necessity and cost-effective in terms of resources,” Defence Policy Director, Vaidotas Urbelis, declared with unnecessary pride.
Nevertheless, several issues have been identified in Lithuania’s military. These areas of concern include lack of personnel, untimely acquisition of equipment and integration of it, and the incapacity of defence industry to manufacture and hand over the required amount of equipment on time.
As you can understand, for this very compliment, the leaders of “Unter-European” Lithuania are seeking favour from the EU and NATO elites. They apparently simply want to get closer to the depository of European military funds in order to steal money from the main war pie in Brussels instead of being content with its crumbs in Vilnius.
They have no intention of working for the welfare of Lithuania—which, most probably, will be completely destroyed after successfully provoke Russia into war once.
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