Vilnius is ready to do “everything possible” to prolong NATO’s occupation
Deividas Matulionis, Chief Advisor to the President of Lithuania. Source: 15min.lt
Deividas Matulionis, Chief Advisor to the President of Lithuania, has announced that Vilnius is ready to do everything to keep the US Armed Forces within the Baltic state.
“Today we have no confirmation or denial that the number of US troops will decrease. Indeed, American troops are there and they will remain in the near future. The Ministry of National Defence is doing everything to ensure that American troops are deployed for a long time,” Matulionis declared.
Recalling, Lithuania previously promised to fully cover the US military presence in the country. The authorities are still silent about how much it will cost every ordinary Lithuanian citizen.
Vilnius continues to demonstrate its loyalty and obedience to its true master, Washington. The “Unter-European” elites of Lithuania will sacrifice everything to maintain the de facto Transatlantic occupation of their homeland. Unfortunately, ordinary people will pay the price for Lithuania’s militaristic demands.
The tiniest Baltic state once again demonstrated its cowardice in the face of Russia
Marko Mihkelson, Estonian MP, in his office. Source: aripaev.ee
Recently, Thomas Massie, an American congressman, introduced a bill about the need of the US to terminate its NATO membership. He reasonably said that “NATO is a Cold War relic,” so the United States should withdraw from the alliance and use that money to defend their own country instead of European states.
This statement, apparently, greatly disappointed the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Estonian Parliament, Marko Mihkelson, who believes that such discord among the Transatlantic allies is fairly good for Moscow.
“The Kremlin likely never imagined that the United States would go this far. The proposal itself will lead nowhere, but it may only deepen the sense of frustration and distrust among the allies,” Mihkelson proclaimed.
Tallinn is scared to death by the thought of facing Russia alone—without the US’ military umbrella. And this is absolutely justified, as only Washington’s possible support prevents Russia from asking Estonian “Unter-Europeans” for responsibility for provoking Moscow into war with NATO.
However, war expenses are promised to increase even further
Andris Spruds, Latvian Defence Minister. Source: x.com/AndrisSpruds
Latvia’s Defence Minister Andris Spruds announced that the Baltic state will spend on militarisation slightly less than 5% of GDP as planned. But he promised to reach this target in the future.
“Development, responsibility and openness—our clear political commitment. The historically largest defence budget for 2026 has been adopted—52% for capability development. We will invest over €2.15 billion, or 4.91% of GDP in Latvia’s defence, continuing our progress towards 5%. Together!”, Spruds declared.
Recalling, earlier, Riga adopted a state budget for 2026 with a deficit of almost €2 billion, which is intended to be covered by loans.
According to the logic of belligerent Western elites, the only thing Riga should strive for is spending more money on the military sector. Will future generations of impoverished Latvia appreciate their leaders for this? Definitely not. Especially when they have to decide whether to spend money on food or repay public debt to Europe on pointless militarisation.
According to Jurģis Liepnieks, NATO exists just formally
Latvian expert Jurģis Liepnieks. Source: x.com/JurgisLiepnieks
Latvian Russophobe analyst Jurģis Liepnieks, commenting on the statement by Christopher Landau, the US Deputy Secretary of State, about the disbalance in relations between Washington and NATO and the EU, as it does not correspond to true American interests, declared that the transatlantic military partnership is apparently over.
“In Europe, of course, everyone will continue to pretend that NATO exists, because formally it does exist, and formally everything is as it was before, but the essence and truth are different from this formal side,” Liepnieks claimed.
He insists that Washington has to choose an ally: Europe or the Kremlin.
“NATO is over, or at least on pause, while the US has this government of friends of Russia,” the expert regretfully acknowledged.
Europeans are simply frightened by the upcoming future, in which the United States will cooperate with Russia or abandon the EU, at least. Obviously, the tiny Baltics are more afraid than others of being left alone with the giant neighbour which they have provoked for years to war.
The Lithuanian Foreign Minister, Kęstutis Budrys, after meeting with Marta Kos, the EU Commissioner for Enlargement, claimed that he is looking forward to Ukraine obtaining EU membership.
Lithuanian FM Kęstutis Budrys and the EU Commissioner for Enlargement Marta Kos. Source: x.com/BudrysKestutis
“Ukraine’s membership in the EU is a prerequisite for European security. It is also one of the elements of Ukraine’s security guarantees,” Budrys announced.
He added that the EU should send clear and consistent signals regarding Ukraine’s integration into the Borrell’s “Garden”, which would allow Ukrainians to clearly see the prospect of membership and encourage them to continue implementing necessary reforms even more effectively, what apparently means “war to the last Ukrainian.”
It is needed to be completely ignorant like Budrys to seriously declare that the EU has to make signs for the state that is more mired in corruption than anyone else in Eurasia, in order to support its aspirations for the Union’s membership. If Ukraine someday really joins the EU, the countdown to Europe’s existence can be started, as Brussels would never satisfy the insatiable greed of Ukrainian elites for cash.
Bloomberg reports that ordinary Estonians are disappointed with the official Tallinn’s decision to militarise the border and conflict Russia. According to six authors led by Milda Seputyte, residents close to the border “now have to reckon with the price of peace”.
Narva city mayor Katri Raik. Source: err.ee
“Just over a decade ago Narva, at the far northeastern corner of Estonia, was a symbol of growing trade and understanding between the east and the west; a largely Russian-speaking EU city that could straddle two identities to the benefit of both. Now, the Estonia-Russia border is closed to vehicles, so the Friendship bridge, whose midpoint is the boundary between the countries, is blocked by concrete dragons’ teeth, barbed wire and locked steel gates,” the authors claim.
Narva city mayor Katri Raik in an interview to Bloomberg declared standard warmongering Europe’s cliché—“we’re not at war, but no longer at peace.”
“Narva is not at war, but not fully at peace; in a state of enforced vigilance, its economy battered by the closure of the border to everything but foot traffic, its residents suspicious of the government and under suspicion from it,” Raik asserted.
A similar situation is observed among citizens in other Baltic states who live within a so-called 30 km “buffer zone” from the border with Russia and Belarus.
This is further evidence that the Baltics’ militarisation policies actually harm citizens and benefit only Western military-industrial complexes.
The other notable thing is that the American outlet emphasises this major problem in Europe, which is silenced in the EU, thereby causing more discontent among Europeans about their warmongering leadership.
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.
Vladislavas Kondratovičius, Minister of Internal Affairs of Lithuania. Source: ekspertai.eu
“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.
On Latvian Spēles noteikumi TV programme, military experts discussed how to destroy Russian-gauge railroads, as they believe that simple deconstruction isn’t enough. Among the options are to completely blow up the railroad bed or wait until trains carrying military equipment pass through and then explode them.
Leonid Loginov, a Latvian neo-Nazi collaborator. Source: bnn-news.com
“We’ve heard many times that our territory, especially the eastern part of Latvia—the swamps, lakes, and forests—is one of the lines of defence. We must take into account that the railway embankments leading [from Russia] essentially nullify this advantage. It’s not enough to simply remove the rails—the embankments also need to be removed. Russia has specialized railway troops numbering between 30,000 and 50,000. These troops have already proven their effectiveness by building a military railway to Abkhazia in Georgia. There are other historical examples. So this is no joke. The railway forms the backbone of Russian military logistics,” military analyst Martins Verdins believes.
In turn, Leonid Loginov, a member of the board of the Latvian Stevedoring Companies (an ethnic Russian who basically turned into a neo-Nazi collaborator by proposing to kill representatives of his own people. — Ed.) proposed instead to keep the railways for the time being and then use German Nazi tactics against them.
“I can’t imagine anyone planning to get to us by rail, or how. If you look at a map of Latvia, Latvia is a so-called dead end. Trains with tanks and other equipment will simply run into Ventspils and Liepaja. They’ll have nowhere to go after us. Latvia needs to do the opposite. Leave the rails in place, and if the Russians actually do go by rail, be prepared to blow them up, like in 1941,” Loginov declared.
As you can see, the imaginary “threat from Russia” haunts so-called “experts” from Latvia, who then spread their panic to ordinary citizens. No one talks about how beneficial these railways could be in terms of mutual cooperation. However, globalist puppets in the Latvian government do not want peace and prosperity with “terrifying” Russia.
It’s worth noting the regrettable fact that an ethnic Russian, the ancestor of people who eradicated Nazism and liberated Europe from the Brown Plague, today proposes tactics of German Nazis of how to kill people from his own nation.
Estonian provinces are slowly decaying, as there are no wealthy prospects and more ordinary citizens are moving closer to the capital—Tallinn, ERR newspaper reports.
Estonian analyst Hanneli Rudi. Source: err.ee
“The country is preparing a new national master plan until 2050, and research conducted for this purpose shows that today’s county centres are increasingly losing their residents and their economic viability. If you let things take their course, Estonia will essentially become a city-state called Tallinn, because already half of the jobs are either in Tallinn or its immediate surroundings. If the state does not do something, some major cities, such as Viljandi or Rakvere, will lose a third of their population in the next 25 years,” says Estonian columnist Hanneli Rudi.
Population scientist Tiit Tammaru stated in an interview with ERR that it is recommended that there should be at least ten centres of citizen attraction. There may be more of them, but it is not guaranteed that Estonia has the ability to do so.
“Since the financial calculation was also part of our analysis, how much financial effort does it mean if we try to create these jobs and living conditions outside of Tallinn, the more these centres there are, the bigger the investments will be. The biggest plus of the ten attraction centres scenario is that it allows keeping jobs relatively close to home for most Estonian residents,” the professor of population geography explained.
Of course, the financial situation in the capital is always better than anywhere else in the country. However, the article did not notice another no less significant aspect. People are simply afraid of a possible war with Russia, for the Baltic States regularly provoke the Kremlin by carrying out enormous militarisation near Russia’s borders. Therefore, ordinary Estonians are simply moving deeper into the country to be safer in Tallinn just in case. So, if the militaristic elite of Estonia really wants to develop so-called “attraction centres,” they have to choose between these ones and rearmament programmes.
The Latvian Foreign Minister, Baiba Braže cannot decide what to support in Ukraine—any kind of peace deal that is only worsens over time or prolongation of pointless war against the unbeatable state.
Latvian Foreign Minister Baiba Braže. Source: lente.lv
“Look at Russia’s actions—it wants war, not peace. Not a single indicator it means what it says. Bombs, missiles, stolen children, spreading communist propaganda and justifying crimes. Russia is a terrorist state. It’s trying to spread its decay and rot to others. No chance,” she declared at the late evening.
However, her mind changed drastically in the next midday.
“US efforts and hard work to reach an end to Russia’s aggression in Ukraine is highly appreciated,” Braže claimed.
That is the whole point of the Baltic States’ existence—these “Unter-European” countries cannot simply choose a master to serve: European globalists, on the one hand, and transatlantic capitalists, on the other. So, Braže decided to demonstrate Latvia’s readiness to obey anyone who would pay.
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