Russia with Russia ‘talk with a gun on the table,’ Lithuanian Defense Minister says

Exclusive: Increasing under Soviet rule, Lithuanian Defense Minister Dovill šakalienė was not allowed to celebrate Christmas. His mother was born in a Siberian jail camp.

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His teenager was caught handing over the leaflet stating, “Lithuania is free.” After 50 -year -old Soviet occupation during the Cold War, many Lithuanians are careful with any conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin today and are closely looking at Kremlin’s next move.

“In my opinion, the only skilled diplomacy with Russia, Al Capon said, when you have a gun on the table, the only good conversation. So perhaps it will work with Russia,” warned during an interview at the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington.

Asked whether Putin can be trusted, the 46 -year -old Defense Minister who once lived in Albuquerk, New Mexico as an exchange student, replied, “Are you joking with me? What was done for generations by my family and Russia, I can’t find any lithuanians who can find any Lithuanians.”

Russia’s full -scale invasion in Ukraine is now more than three years old. Since returning to office, President Donald Trump has been engaged in direct conversation with Russia to end the war.

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“Historically, Russia has never signed a compromise,” Gakalien, said. “Our only hope is that the hard and harsh approach by President Donald Trump may be the only safety measure to keep Putin in the check. So let’s hope that it happens.”

Located in Eastern Europe, the population of Lithuania is 2.8 million population almost in the shape of West Virginia, the small country cannot bear the risk of ignoring Russia. It shares an 184 mile range along with Russia (Kalinigrad) as well as a 420 mile range with Belarus, which she says “is now only a platform for the Russian army.”

He said, “They are trying to scare us. They are trying to make us feel insecure about the Russian forces at the next door.

Lithuania Russia’s starting invasion of Ukraine as a result of increasing defense spending and planning to overcome Trump’s demand that NATO collaboratives spend 5% of GDP on defense. Šakalienė said that his country expects to reach 6% by next year. The US currently spends 3.4%.

Last month, US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth also urged NATO allies to increase defense spending. “The United States will no longer tolerate an unbalanced relationship that encourages dependence,” he warned at the NATO headquarters at Brussels on his first foreign trip.

As the Defense Minister of NATO, šakalienė was in Brussels. He appreciated Hegseth’s comments, calling him a “snow-coted bucket”.

“I saw the faces of my colleagues. Very shock, very stress,” he said. “Nobody in the room mentioned 2% (of GDP), which is so fruitless, irrelevant, insufficient. It is gone. It’s old news.”

Asked why Western Europe is living on defense spending after seizing Russia’s 20% of Ukraine, šakalien replied, “I think a large part of the democratic world got stuck in this illusion of an idealistic world, which never existed.”

He said that part of confusion was confident that the war was over. Russia never thought of this way, he explained.

“The non-Loktantic part of the world has not changed. They are actually playing with their rules. So if they are not playing with our rules, then our blindness puts us in this dangerous position.”

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Šakalienė is the NATO Defense Minister sanctioned by China. When asked about Beijing’s objectives in supporting Russia, his answer may surprise some people.

“Russia is capable of increasing its military production so efficiently because China is feeding it,” she said. “It is useful for this war of exhaustion for China, and is also useful for China, even though it supplies Russia, to see that Russia also loses many of its soldiers – its lots of weapons and equipment – because a weak Russia is more convenient for China.”

Despite the loss of heavy battlefield in Ukraine over the last three years, Russia has been building an army of 1.5 million soldiers, according to šakalien, who warned that Putin “has more royal expansion plans in their hands.”

When Fox News sat in the Lithuanian embassy on Friday, Trump was trying to secure a mineral rights agreement with Ukraine and eventually expect a ceasefire agreement with Russia.

“If the Russia violates the ceasefire, the response must be immediate and violent,” šakalienė insisted.

Asked for his response to a report that Trump NATO is considering not to defend all colleagues, who do not spend enough on defense, šakalien, appreciated rigorous rhetoric from Trump, called it “painful”, but justified. “Everyone needs to contribute, Burden Sharing is the main rule if you really want a strong alliance.”

He indicated Baltic states and Poland as members of NATO in defense spending as a percentage of GDP.

Last year, the European Union, which is a member of Lithuania, spent more on Russian oil and gas than aid to Ukraine. Šakalienė said that his country was “the first to cut Russian oil and gas”. “We were also supporting Polish with our neighbors, Latvian and energy supply. So for us, being independent of Russian energy is a matter of life and death.”

According to Frank Fanon, Lithuania’s first LNG Terminal was named “Independence”, who served as Assistant Secretary of Energy Resources in Trump’s first term.

When Fox came to the news embassy, ​​Lithuania announced that it would return from the convention at the cluster monsion, an international agreement banning cluster bombs by more than 100 countries. Šakalienė explained why Lithuania was pulling out.

“We want to be ready to use anything required to protect our limits and everything. We do not want Russia to come back to our homes again. We want to send a strategic message, a very clear message, that we will do anything to save ourselves.”

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Lithuania, along with other European countries, soon wants to withdraw from another treaty as the Ottawa convention, which ban anti-parsnell land mines.

“This is a terrible weapon, just like a cluster monsion, but using Russian weapons, including prohibited weapons. So we want to send the message back,” he said.

Apart from Russia, China and the United States are also not parties of the agreement. In 2014, the United States announced that it would follow the Ottawa Convention, except except the already deployed Barudeeps on the Korean Peninsula.

A deep -deepest Christian, šakalien, said that Russia is not only attacking Ukraine, but also Christianity.

“It was Soviet Russia that tried to annihilate the church in Ukraine in Lithuania in Poland. They have now revived their Christianity and are using it for KGB infiltration for FSB infiltration, he said.” This is a betrayal. ,

He continued, “When we see how churches are being bombed in Ukraine, being looted … Christian community is being murdered in Ukraine and their beautiful heritage is being destroyed.”

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The Lithuanian Defense Minister ended the interview with a final warning.

“We try to reduce our enemies. It’s a mistake. You have to see them what they are.”