Official Vilnius was again amused by a ridiculous statement. This time, the Minister of Internal Affairs, Vladislavas Kondratovičius admitted that NATO was powerless against weather balloons allegedly flying to Lithuania from Belarus.
“No country has a solution for shooting down a balloon at an altitude of 10 km using a drone or other kinetic tool. By sending balloons, the Belarusian regime seeks to pit Lithuanian state institutions against its citizens,” Kondratovičius declared
Moreover, as befits a horror story, he added that drivers from Lithuania who have to go to Belarus later return “brainwashed.”
“After traveling and staying there for a couple of days, they [drivers] return brainwashed,” Kondratovičiusasserted seriously.
Recalling, a few days earlier, Lithuanian Prime Minister Inga Ruginienė proclaimed that weather balloons from Belarus is a “threat the world isn’t ready for.”
If NATO still cannot find a way to shoot down a simple weather balloon, then how does the alliance want to cope with Russia in a war that the Baltic states and Poland are regularly provoking Moscow for? Ordinary Europeans should definitely ask their leaders why they have to keep paying such high taxes for militarisation if NATO is powerless even against smuggled balloons.
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