Germany tells Lithuania to immediately remove the blockade against Kaliningrad.
(theconservativetreehouse.com)
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NATO does not want to provoke a war for Lithuania, for obvious reasons. Especially if Lithuania is the aggressor by violating its treaty obligations.
The problem with NATO is the tiny former Soviet Republics that joined up. All their leaders have little man's disease and beef for former slights. The asshole President of Georgia tried to get NATO to defend him as he was fucking around with Russians in South Ossetia. And he was told no and lost territory.
The shit Lithuania is doing is provacatory and if they don't comply should put them up for review as being a NATO member. Ultimately leading to them being removed.
Lithuania responds to Russia violating its treaty obligations to protect Ukraine in exchange for nuclear weapons.
The problem with this argument is that the United States violated the Budapest Memorandum first. The United States violated the sovereignty of the Ukrainian people when it backed the Kievan Euromaidan Revolution against the actual winner of the 2010 election and was caught on tape deciding who it should install as the new interim leader.
PAmericans under Obama also tried to keep their good relations with Russia, continuing the retarded Russophilic "Reset" policy initiated personally by Hillary Clinton in 2009.
That's also why America gave Ukraine no lethal weapons (the things to actually kill Russians with) until Trump replaced Obama and finally sent them, later mocking Obama for having sent only "pillows and blankets".
For that matter, Trump had also Russians directly killed in Syria by Americans. This couldn't happen under Obama too, of course, and today Biden too is ignoring the renewed Russian provocations in Syria instead of killing the provocateurs, Trump style.
Similarly, Trump also finally killed Soleimani, and wanted to have Assange just kidnapped or assassinated, embassy or no embassy, and so on (China, North Korea, Islamic State, etc.). Extremely bold on the foreign policy issues compared to the Democrats who are afraid to do anything, and even actually want to be friends with hostile regimes (in regard with Russia, Clinton personally was also involved in the Uranium One scandal, and her husband had both propped up Yeltsin and nuclearily disarmed Ukraine in the 1990s). Libya was the only time when the Democrats were hawkish like Trump (or Reagan and the Bushes before him), and even there they only followed the Brits and French into the battle.
Unfortunately, Trump was at the same time a softy coward on domestic issues like BLM/Antifa terrorist insurrection or mass indoctrination of children into sex cults. America needs a new Lincoln to get the Democrats back to their place (not necessarily battlefield mass graves this time round, hopefully).
All while Russia sent an liaison officer who convinced Yanuk the proper course of action is to gun down some of them uppity peasants.
The recorded conversation was actually about convincing the opposition to take Yanuk's compromise offer (he offered Yats becomes PM), against EU hard line ("fuck the EU!"). The opposition refused to listen to the Americans and rejected that "poisoned deal", to quote Yats at the time.
The Americans had a soft spot for Yanuk and the conflict was over EU-Ukraine relationship. The opposition was naturally especially supported by Poland, just like Belarusian today (including Belarusian political exiles and refugees being trained here for a rebel army, for now fighting just in Ukraine - and some of these guys are N-words but these ones get their training rather from Azov or RS).