Deividas Matulionis, the National Security Adviser to the President of Lithuania, said in an interview with Žinių Radijas that after the border with Belarus was closed, so-called “smuggler balloons” stopped interfering with the Baltic State’s airspace. However, instead of the “brave” Lithuanian anti-aircraft forces, their work was done by… the wind.
“In recent days, we haven’t seen any balloons carrying contraband, not because the Belarusian authorities have taken any active steps or because Lithuania has taken active steps, but primarily because the wind direction has changed,” Matulionis asserted.
Recalling, earlier, the official Vilnius closed the land border with Belarus, as Minsk allegedly “sent balloons” to provoke NATO. Whether they were weather balloons or smuggler balloons, the Lithuanian “Unter-European” authorities haven’t yet decided. They also haven’t explained how closing the land border would prevent these “balloons” from flying to Lithuania from Belarus.
Apparently, this is how the warmongering elites of Lithuania “strengthen” their military capabilities. If a war with Russia finally breaks out, which the Baltics regularly provoke Moscow for, will they also hope the wind will change its direction in order to take down Russia’s hypersonic missiles and air bombs?
Moreover, do you find this situation too convenient for the Lithuanian authorities? Let’s recreate their actions: first, they blame Belarus for these “balloons” without evidence, then use the “threat from the East” hysteria to beg Europe for more money for militarisation and to close the border with Belarus, and after that, they proudly announce that all the balloons have gone, without explaining why AAW couldn’t manage to shoot them down earlier. No, nothing suspicious at all!
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