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.
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.
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).