Posted on 07/24/2021 9:38:05 AM PDT by Right Wing Vegan
A recent surge in illegal migration into Lithuania represents a hybrid attack on that country and the region and European Union as a whole, defense minister Kalle Laanet (Reform) says.
Laanet said Friday that: "Lithuania is our close ally, and our duty is to support them immediately in this crisis."
"We are also ready to send three unmanned aircraft crews to Lithuania from August 1 to improve situational awareness at the border," he added, according to a defense ministry press release.
Laanet made the remarks during a phone call with his Lithuanian opposite number Agnė Bilotaitė, while both ministers agreed that the recent developments do not constitute a run-of-the-mill migration crisis.
Bilotaitė went so far as to call it a state-sponsored hybrid attack against Lithuania, the rest of the EU and its democratic values, which is aimed at destabilizing the region.
Close to 2,500 illegal migrants crossed the border from Belarus into Lithuania over the past month, over 30 times the figure for this time last year, and over 60 times the number in 2019.
Many of the migrants hail from the countries in the middle-east and Africa, and their arrival in larger numbers follows a souring of relations between Lithuania and the rest of the EU and the west, on the one side, and Belarus and the Russian Federation on the other – going back almost a year, when Alexander Lukashenko was returned for a sixth term in elections widely condemned as rigged.
A Ryanair plane bound for Vilnius, Lithuania's capital, was hijacked by Belarusian state forces in May while it was in the airspace of that country, and forced to land in Minsk. On board was a dissident Belarusian who is now in prison; another prominent opposition leader, Svetlana Tikhanovskaya, has been residing in Vilnius since last year's elections.
Kalle Laanet and Agnė Bilotaitė discussed further ways in which Estonia could support the southernmost Baltic State, in addition to the tents, personnel and barbed wire already supplied.
Laanet also noted that the annual large-scale Russian military exercise Zapad starts soon, with scenarios involving all three Baltic States to be rehearsed, he said.
Belarusian soldiers also take part in Exercise Zapad.
The ministers also said that there was plenty of evidence that the upsurge in migration was orchestrated by Belarusian authorities, and that further sanctions than those already imposed – Estonia installed a flight ban on Belarusian aircraft following the Ryanair hijacking – are required.
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NWO/Great Reset types trying to destabilize sovereign European nations again with illiterate peasants from Africa and Asia.
the Islamic Invasion continues into USA too
I give most of the European countries not over 5 years
and USA maybe 10 given its immense size but
rest assured
the IslamoNazis are taking over
1. Build a fence
2. Close the border with Belarus
3. Fine airlines for delivering undocumented passengers.
“Many of the migrants hail from the countries in the middle-east and Africa,”
That says it all.
What country were you born in?
All these little countries rushed to join the EU and now they are wishing they hadn’t. Give up your freedom in exchange for false prosperity.
3 million arrived by other routes - no problem.
2,500 through Belarus - bloody murder.
Okay.
That says it all.
I can only add that this is bad for Africans too. The escape valve from which they are enabled to flood into European nations prevents pressure and ingenuity from building up in African nations to stop dispossession by Chinese colonists who are in effect an asset of the "New World Order".
Europeans' best help to Africans is to encourage, and help if possible, developing their own nations and cultures, in resistance to the NWO plan.
Europeans and Africans should be friends, equals, mighty allies against the NWO. Shield of Zulu, hammer of Thor. Neither dispossessed as migrants nor by migrants.
Orchestrated by globalists. They’ve given themselves the authority to organize the world’s population to their benefit.
Are many in Lithuania unhappy to be part of the EU?
For them it’s either the EU or get taken over by Russia.
Africans will not succeed in Europe - the people coming over are uneducated and without skills. They are a Trojan Horse of fodder for a nasty backlash just waiting to happen.
This is all according to the NWO plan of conquering the world.
Your question has nothing to do with the article nor the disastrous situation of illegal unskilled 3rd world hordes invading civilized nations.
They have to remain in their African nations and build them up, both for their own sake and for resistance to the NWO. That was my meaning.
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I agreed with what you posted.
Lithuanians like being in the EU and this new thing has nothing to do with the EU anyway. It is a pariah state and their mad party boss selling “travel packages” and flying in immigrants from Iraq.
He is mostly hurting the Belarus people, who live in fear and misery, but this new thing is causing unexpected trouble for Lithuania too.
Lukashenka is an evil commie thug. I am glad that my government is sending troops and our UAV-s to help Lithuania.
The Biden government has been tought talk, soft action on commies, but I wish they would forbid Lukashenka from using American dollars. Something Biden can do (maybe it needs to be voted on Congress), but if he is forbidden dollars it’s a hard hit on him.
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