Lithuania’s foreign minister sets a red line on Russian sabotage

The Washington Times ^ | July 17, 2026 | Jacob Wirtschafter

[McGruff]

Days after Lithuania said its intelligence services had caught Russia preparing sabotage against the infrastructure that ties the Baltics to Europe, Foreign Minister Kestutis Budrys drew a public line.

If those plans are carried out, he said, Vilnius will not treat the results as accidents. “If there is damage, or if there are casualties, it will be treated as an act of aggression, with all the due consequences,” Mr. Budrys said in an interview with The Washington Times at the foreign ministry. That means, he added, “not only the country’s self-defense but the collective defense of the alliance.”

The warning, which President Gitanas Nauseda disclosed this week, points to Russian planning approved, as Mr. Budrys put it, “at the highest levels in Moscow.”

[DIRTYSECRET]

They could cut off road access to Kaliningrad without any military intervention. Russia would then have to supply it by ship.

[nathanbedford]

In one sense, the Ukrainians have demonstrated to the world that Russia is a paper tiger. But from another point of view Russia remains the world's number two superpower because of the size of its nuclear arsenal.

As a conventional paper tiger, Russia poses limited threat to its neighbors like Lithuania But because Russia is a nuclear power it enjoys a certain immunity from counterattacks and a certain power to intimidate its neighbors with sabotage that might include satellite destruction, digital attacks or drone attacks and even, after Russia regains strength, conventional land assaults.

Possessed of this advantage, Russia seeks to drive wedges among European states, weaken NATO, and gobble up the odd morsel. Baby states like Lithuania will continue to exist under these circumstances only so Long as European unity prevails.

It is in the United States interests to support that unity, but we have been working against our own interests under the Trump administration because we have weakened our nuclear umbrella.

[Candor7]

Pooty,do not mess with the Lithuanians.

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Lithuanian military history is also a story of women. The most famous among them iscertainly captain Emilia Plater1, who joined the 1830-1831 uprising and successfully led several battles with a group of approximately 500 soldiers against the Russian army(Kazanci, 2018). Unfortunately, most of the military women did not obtain the samerecognition as Plater. They have been discarded and de-individualized by memory politics.This is all the more unfortunate as women have repeatedly played key roles in theLithuanian resistance movements. Women were crucial in the 1918–1920 Wars of Independence against Poland, serving as nurses, organising fundraising activities andproviding meals and clothes to the soldiers (Sereičikas, 2021). Later, they proved to be particularly efficient spies in the war of Polish-Lithuanian intelligence of 1920-1939 (Rezmer, 2020).

During the Second World War and the post-war resistance, women played the role ofmessengers, medical providers (Budryte, 2016), cooks,seamstresses, publishers (Platūkytė, 2020) and, for some of them, directly got engaged as active fighters in the resistancemovement of the “Forest Brothers” (Budryte, 2016). This latter group included around 50,000 members. According to Enrika Kripienė, a historian at the Genocide and ResistanceResearch Centre of Lithuania, 250 of them (0.5%), were women, (Platūkytė, 2020).

A. Historical role of women in Lithuanian military activities.

[marktwain]

Lithuania now has shall issue concealed carry permits as part of its military resistance strategy.

They are one of six European countries which have shall issue permits. Three of those are the Baltic nations: Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. The other three are the Czech Republic, Slovakia, and, surprisingly, Georgia.

[Candor7]

Sounds like a place one would want residency.

[marktwain]

It shows they have a functional rule of law, unlike New York, California, Illinois, and Maryland.

You do not have the rule of law if the government administration and the courts conspire to deprive citizens of basic, fundamental rights guaranteed by the Constitution.

You do not have a rule of law if the bureaucracies conspire to deprive you of what the law says you are entitled to.

[Red6]

The West can’t give Ukraine missiles and drones (or provide critical components for Ukraines drones) that can reach deep into Russia and not expect retaliation.

MOST of the attacks in the West involve the logistical transfer points, where we hand it over to the Ukrainians. As such, you have a lot of Ukrainian owned warehouses going up in flames:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-68899130

https://www.europapress.es/nacional/noticia-investigan-incendio-empresa-ucraniana-madrid-posible-sabotaje-prorruso-similar-otro-reino-unido-20240507123623.html

These are likely transfer sites. Where the Ukraine takes possession.

Frankly, the West’s direct hand in hitting Russia is far more obvious, extensive, and we took this first escalatory step.

We are so arrogant and fake virtuous (in our own mind), that we actually believe it is our (((right))) to do these things and “how dare Russia do anything back?”

Punch the other guy in the nose and expecting them not to hit us back! LOL

Attacks across the West, specifically Europe, likely started a few years back 2023. There was a wave of attacks on European defense industry calmly and quietly swept under the rug years ago, AFTER Ukraine began striking deep into Russia using OUR equipment, with factories all of the sudden catching fire.

https://www.politico.eu/article/bulgaria-economy-minister-bogdan-bogdanov-nikolay-denkov-hints-at-russian-attack-on-ammunition-factory/

https://www.focus.de/politik/sabotage-in-berlin-brandstiftung-in-deutscher-waffenfabrik-russische-saboteure-unter-verdacht_id_260076665.html

https://adz.news/artikel/artikel/war-der-brand-in-cugir-ein-gru-sabotageakt

https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/20/poland-arrests-nine-suspects-over-alleged-russian-sabotage-plot

More local coverage and ignored by our MSM since it doesn’t fit our narrative.

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Nations providing hardware to Ukraine to strike deep into Russia can expect sabotage on their soil.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-65558070

Germany saw a few factories go up in flames, and guess what, they got the message:

https://www.euractiv.com/news/merz-says-ukraine-no-longer-needs-german-taurus-missiles/

Even though Ukraine would love the Taurus and is asking for it, the Germans say it’s no longer needed by Ukraine and won’t be delivered. LOL

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Let’s start from the beginning. Russia is no chump. The West should have respected the promises made and Russia’s sphere of influence, NOT trying to steamroll them on bringing Ukraine into NATO.

Stupid unnecessary war all together.

[marktwain]

Yes, it is a stupid, unnecessary war.

It is also mostly the fault of Russia, which under Vladimir Putin, wants to take back territory it gave up with the fall of the Soviet Union.

I do not blame Russia for this. But Russia is at least equally at fault for claiming they are resisting NATO aggression. Russia wants to make Ukraine part of Russia, again. Ukraine has resisted, far more capably than anyone in Europe or NATO considered possible in the first weeks of the war.

As Ukraine continued to hold its own, it received more and more aid in resisting Russia, because Ukraine showed its resilience and resolve. No one expected this. Russia certainly did not. But Vladimir Putin’s intelligence operations failed him. They assured him Ukraine was a ripe plum to be plucked. Even the Biden Administration gave him a back-handed OK.

But the Ukrainian people did not agree. Ukraine is becoming a real nation, with real mythology and a national identity paid for with blood on the battlefield.

[ansel12]

As Victor Davis Hanson wrote Tuesday
Trump “has given President Zelensky greater targeting leeway and access to more controversial weapons than any previous president.”

[dfwgator]

Ziskey was right “They’re Pussies”

[Mr Radical]

What red line did Ukraine cross when they blew up the pipeline into Germany?

[Candor7]

Agreed.

And O give you my favourite quote .

Samuel Adams, Philadelphia State House, August 1, 1776:

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or your arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen.

Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: first, a right to life; secondly, to liberty; thirdly to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil Constitution, are worth defending at all hazards; and it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have received them as a fair inheritance from our worthy ancestors: they purchased them for us with toil and danger and expense of treasure and blood, and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle, or to be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men.”

THe time is coming when we will need to adjust the course of our nation against those who decry these fundamental aspects of our Republic, the uncivilized enemy from within.

[Red6]

Nope-

[Red6]

We have not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cuban_Missile_Crisis

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_invasion_of_Grenada

Do not:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2026_United_States_intervention_in_Venezuela

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/business/panama-canal-ck-hutchison.html Under our threat of invasion: https://www.wbaltv.com/article/hegseth-china-panama-canal-security/64435486

And will not:

Hypothetically, what do you think we would do if the Chinese offered Mexico a great incentive to allow them to permanently station their troops and equipment in their country, to build bases there? How far so you think (((we))) would be willing to go to stop this?

Allow anyone to do with us, what we expect the Russians to accept.

The war in Ukraine was caused by this: https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukrainian-president-zelenskiy-holding-talks-with-biden-adviser-says-2021-12-09/

It is NOT Russia trying to rebuild an empire. Ignorant junk argument.

It is not Russia wanting to invade further into NATO. Ignorant junk argument.

Stop trying to expand NATO to Russia's borders and we won't have these problems.

[adorno]

Nations providing hardware to Ukraine to strike deep into Russia can expect sabotage on their soil.

Russia itself no longer poses any danger to any of the NATO countries, much less the U.S. itself.

But, keep hoping.

BTW, what kind of sabotage do you know that Russia is planning? Other than the sabotage that they've always planned and caused throughout their history, especially after WWII.

Are you aware that, without the constant Russian aggression throughout the world, that the world would be mostly a peaceful place? The world will be a lot more peaceful after Ukraine finally takes Russia out of the game.

[adorno]

Stop trying to expand NATO to Russia's borders and we won't have these problems.

Ignorant and junk Russian argument.

[Red6]

Probably,

You wanted a war. You got one.

If you want to to widen or deepen it, keep pushing all the escalatory stupid buttons you can find.

Then, pretend that rambling about the Soviet Union and Putin mad man, war of aggression, unprovoked, makes it so.

NO MAJOR POWER, wants another setting up shop on their border.

China won’t allow it, we won’t allow it, Russia won’t allow it.

We would never dare try with China what we did with Russia, that is because we see China as a peer.

We won’t allow foreign military powers to set up in our entire hemisphere, where we without saying such, STILL go by a Monroe Doctrine. Their can be 7 countries between us, 1,700 miles, and we will threaten invasion if Panama merely allows a Chinese firm to manage the canal! We will invade Venezuela if they get to cozy with the Chinese and Russians. We will threaten nuclear war if the Russian base missile in Cuba, with 90 miles of water between us. We will invade Grenada if we know the Russians are in reality bankrolling (through Nicaragua) an airfield being built by Cuban engineers for their bombers in 83. STOP APPLYING A DOUBLE STANDARD.

We no longer saw Russia as a peer.

This war was caused by our arrogance, an attempt to steamroll Russia and just ignore their security interests.

“Surely they won’t want to pay the price in stopping us, right?”

[adorno]

NO MAJOR POWER, wants another setting up shop on their border.

That's a fake issue. All countries, including the major powers, have had or have or will have what can be considered opposition or hostile neighbors. Russia and the USSR always had Europe NEXT DOOR. the issue is a perpetual false flag event. Putin has invoked the fake issue since the USSR broke up. And Putin is the one causing more countries to enter NATO, thereby making NATO more 'intrusive' in Putin's mind.

China won’t allow it, we won’t allow it, Russia won’t allow it.

Nobody wants hostile neighbors, but Russia is the one that defined them as hostile neighbors. Fake issue!

When it comes to intrusive of bad neighbors, why is Russia tolerating the takeover of its far-east regions, by China and N.Korea. That's about 40% of Russia which Putin can kiss good-bye if they don't end the war in Ukraine soon.

So, a fake issue and poor excuses for trying to take Ukraine. Win some, lose some. But, in the case for Russia, lose badly and lose a lot elsewhere. Dumb as 'chit' that Putin.

[Red6]

No NATO on Russia's border = no war in Ukraine.

Russia needed 3.5 months to move the needed forces in place for this invasion because their posture along Ukraine's border was NOT offensive or threatening.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/01/satellite-russia-ukraine-military-518337

Before the war, Russia with 1/5 our economy was spending about the same percentage of GDP on defense we were! Obviously very “threatening.”(sarc)

https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/MS.MIL.XPND.GD.ZS?locations=RU

If they didn't have the people along Ukraine's border, and weren't spending on war, how “offensive” and threatening can they really be? Use your brain for once.

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If we really didn't want this war, we probably should NOT have LIED about not an inch to the East with NATO.

We probably shouldn't have cheated on the Conventional Forces Europe treaty.

We probably shouldn't have withdrawn from the Ballistic Missile Treaty.

Maybe we should not have intentionally mislead the Russians with MINSK where we never had any intentions of abiding to that agreement as admitted by Merkel.

This war in Ukraine was a long time coming, and (((we))) caused it by putting Russia in a security position we ourselves would never accept, nor would the Chinese accept such, and with them we wouldn't dare try to pull such crap.

We simply feel big and powerful, saw Russia as weak and likely unwilling to stop us, and did whatever we wanted. More “might makes right,” diplomacy and then use fake and idiotic arguments of how Russia wants to rebuild the Soviet empire, Ukrainian sovereignty, Putin mad man, and rhetoric like unprovoked and war of aggression as our faux moral justification.

Ukraine is stupid war Biden caused.