Posted on 03/25/2025 9:27:17 PM PDT by Cronos
Throughout Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, repeated and escalating warnings of the potential for a wider war have only raised fears in the Baltic states that they could be next in the crosshairs of the Kremlin.
Talk about a potential Russian invasion is "very common at parties, gatherings, lunch breaks, water cooler talk," Gabija Stasiukyne, a 32-year-old living in Vilnius, told the Kyiv Independent.
"It’s everywhere. The conversation inevitably turns in the direction of — what are you going to do?"
Lithuania's government is also taking the threat seriously — the country reinstated conscription in 2015, and Vilnius in January committed to spending between 5% and 6% of its GDP on defense annually until at least 2030.
"Increasing our military capabilities and strengthening alliances is of utmost importance," Lithuania's Defense Minister Dovile Sakaliene, told the Kyiv Independent in written response.
"War won’t come tomorrow, but we are reinventing our defense in order to be ready to fight tonight. We know every step of our adversary, and are preparing accordingly."
...For Lithuania and the Baltic states collectively, Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022 once again shined a spotlight on, and raised memories of, a long history of Moscow's imperialist ambitions.
"My great-grandfather was deported (by the Soviets during World War II) to Siberia because he was a teacher, an intelligent man," Emilija Sikorskyite, a 23-year-old English and French language teacher living in Vilnius
...At their closest point, a mere 40km separates Kaliningrad and Belarus along a narrow piece of land called the Suwalki Gap which closely tracks the Poland-Lithuania border.
joint Russian and Belarusian military exercises scheduled for September 2025, could serve as a pretext for the build up of a Russian invasion force — just as they did before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022.
(Excerpt) Read more at kyivindependent.com ...
Estonia, alongside Lithuania and Poland, jointly announced this week that they’re asking their respective parliaments to approve a withdrawal from the international anti-personnel mines’ treaty which prohibits the use of those mines, signed by 160 countries worldwide.
This was to allow them “greater flexibility” in defending their borders, they said. Lithuania had already withdrawn from an international convention banning cluster bombs earlier this month.
Has Russia proposed an annexation of Lithuania via “leverage” and the “art of the deal” (as is being proposed with Greenland)?
More propaganda by EU countries!
Sounds like the CIA is active in Lithuania! WAR! WAR!
Mass hysteria by Euro-peon elites for their masses.
Unfortunately not.
Russia annexed border regions within a few days of the CIA and US State Department overthrowing the Ukraine. If the CIA is or has recently overthrown Lithuania, then I could see Russia setting up a buffer zone to keep NATO off it’s doorstep.
Instead of stressing about it. Europeans should be buying weapons and training. And while they’re at it, send the “migrants” home.
More like the Russians are...it is they who will be holding the “military exercises” in the area later this year.
The Ayatollah-loving left [an
d the Russians] are enjoying the tension because the Russian threat in Europe, they hope, will prevent finishing the job in Iran.
Please bookmark this article under... “Totally just making shit up before I run out of coke.” - Signed, Z Dictator of Ukraine and former penis piano player.
Kyiv Independent.
Moving right along. 🙄
There was no overthrow or coup in 2014. That’s Putin propaganda you are repeating.
Not really. I was in Vilnius last September and the country is preparing to defend itself.
Whispered word to Mr. Trump. Now may be a really good time for ‘some unexpected event’ to dramatically change the narritive away from certain misdirected phone messages.
Sorry, but the idea that Russia is going to attack these countries is just more propaganda by the Globalist, WEF backed EU members.
There is no truth in these lies and is used, they think, for their refusal to deal with the real causes of this conflict.
What crap, Russia isn’t going to invade a NATO country while trying to settle the war in Ukraine. If they did, the war in Ukraine would continue (with Ukraine being rearmed and all restraints removed), they’d have to fight NATO troops )including Americans) directly, and there’s no way any sanctions will be removed for at least a decade.
Ain’t. Gonna. Happen.
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