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side of world affairs.
Today, we talk about Lithuania, a beautiful country kidnapped by a handful of anti-Russia
and Anti-China politicians.
As it allowed Taiwan's DPP authorities to open a representative office under the name
of Taiwan, not Chinese Taipei, Beijing froze the bilateral relations with Lithuania by
reducing the diplomatic relationship to charge D, the lowest level.
However, the honeymoon between Taiwan and Lithuania ended when Taiwan could not buy
as many Lithuanian products as expected.
Tsai Ing-wen and the Lithuanian President are not like brothers and sisters anymore,
and the latter can hardly win back Beijing's business as he hopes.
Gitanas Nausėda is an economist; apparently, he can make a better life as a CEO of a 300-person
company than the President of a country with 3 million people.
A small business owner has a mindset different from a country leader, but Lithuanian voters
chose him, and now it is the time for them to pay the price.
In a previous video, we pointed out that the country had been promised a loan of 600 million
US dollars by the United States, so it provoked China by undermining Beijing's one-China principle,
allowing Taiwan to open an office in its capital.
The Lithuanian leader used to be a high-rank executive in a Lithuanian bank for over ten
years before becoming the President, so it is normal for him to think 600 million US
dollars is more than enough for him to break the relations with Beijing.
Unfortunately, those promised 600 million dollars in the name of export credit arrangements
are not free.
Lithuania needs to pay back the principal plus interests.
Even though the interests might be slightly lower than regular loans, they still burden
Lithuanian exporters.
China is not a significant importer of Lithuanian products, which is why Vilnius agreed to establish
a closer relationship with Taiwan at the request of the United States.
However, the Chinese government has reportedly forbidden importing any products with Lithuanian
components, so many of Lithuania's buyers turned to other countries for parts.
Germany is a good example.
It has constantly urged Lithuania to repair its relations with Beijing.
Still, ruining its relations with China Mainland is only a part-time job for those elected
representatives.
Fighting with Russia is their prominent work.
After the outbreak of the conflict between Russia and Ukraine, Lithuania downgraded its
diplomatic relations with Russia and expelled the Russian ambassador.
And within the European Union, Lithuania was the first to cut off Russian oil and gas supplies
completely.
When a tiny country like Lithuania provokes a nation as extensive as Russia, the big one
gets the last laugh.
According to TASS, Russian State Duma member Fyodorov recently submitted a bill not to
recognize Lithuania as an independent state.
Yevgeny Fyodorov is an influential politician in Russia.
He is the deputy of the State Duma of the Federal Assembly of Russia for four convocations,
chairman of the Committee on Economic Policy and Entrepreneurship of the State Duma, and
member of the Central Political Council of the United Russia party.
According to Fyodorov, the former Soviet State Council's recognition of Lithuania's independence
was an "illegal decision" because the Soviet State Council was not a constitutional body
of the former Soviet Union, and its decision to recognize Lithuania's independence had
violated the former Soviet Union's Constitution.
Russia, as the legal heir to the former Soviet Union, had to correct the decision of the
USSR State Council.
Fyodorov's point is that if the Russian Duma does not recognize Lithuania's independence,
then Russia, as the successor to the Soviet Union, will have grounds for territorial claims
against Lithuania, even making it a republic under the Russian Federation.
The Russian politician who initiated such a bill wants to kill two birds with one stone.
It can stop Lithuania from making more fuss and lay a solid legal foundation for Russia's
potential action against Vilnius.
We discussed in previous videos why Lithuania is so desperately against Russia and earnestly
begs the US to station its troops in Vilnius, and Yevgeny Fyodorov's motion perfectly explains
it.
When the former Soviet State Council approved the independence of the three Baltic states,
no one raised objections.
Three decades later, a top official and State Duma member raised this issue, and it is not
merely a joke.
Any person who was not born yesterday knows that a tiny country should not irritate a
potent neighbour at the request of a government from afar.
Lithuania and two other Baltic states indeed joined NATO in 2004, but who knows whether
NATO will keep its word when a NATO member is invaded?
NATO is a loose military alliance, and some of its members are pro-Russia, like Turkey
and Hungary.
It is only a geopolitical tool for some powers or one particular superpower to manipulate
the world.
The more member states NATO includes, the least likely it will fight for one member's
specific interests.
Will NATO fight Russia for Lithuania at a later date?
Or will it just turn away as it did not fight India for Portugal at the end of 1961 when
India annexed Goa?
After world war two, the number of countries worldwide is almost 200, which has almost
tripled in less than 80 years.
The United Nations has 193 member states and two observers, and NATO has already included
over 30 of them as its members.
Suppose NATO is willing to defend any of its members from outside attacks, which we doubt,
and all its members are arrogant and aggressive.
In that case, as expected by some countries' military-industrial complex, NATO will have
to fight all day, and the world will always be at war.
When China reportedly forbade importing Lithuanian products, Lithuania asked the European Union
for help, but the latter had forgotten that Lithuania is one of its members.
It told Lithuania to talk with China directly, implying it is none of the European Union's
business to confront China for so tiny a member state as Lithuania.
We wonder, what would NATO do if Russia passed Yevgeny Fyodorov's bill to recall the former
Soviet State Council's recognition of Lithuania's independence and decided to reunite with Lithuania?
Will the US, Germany, France, the UK and other NATO members stand by as they give up Ukraine
today?
They are afraid of world war three, which should be a nuclear war to ruin the whole
world, so they do not send troops to Kyiv to protect the Ukrainian leader as they hinted
before the conflict.
Lithuania has a population of less than 3 million.
Will it be worthwhile for NATO to drag 8 billion people worldwide into a war of destruction
to protect such a tiny member?
NATO leaders must do calculations before making such a critical decision, which takes time.
Even if they finally decided to help Vilnius later, the Russians should have sent some
Lithuanian leaders to prison as NATO had arrested the Yugoslavia leader after striking today's
Serbia for nearly three months without approval from the United Nations.
Many say some Lithuanian politicians should have received money under the table to undermine
their country's interests, and we do not know whether the allegation is true.
Still, it might be a good idea to check their bank accounts, most likely in Switzerland,
before concluding.
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