Gitanas Nauseda, President of the small Baltic nation of Lithuania (population 2.7 million), arrived in Berlin today, with his announced agenda of urging support for Ukrainian membership in NATO and the withdrawal of all Russian troops from eastern Ukraine, and proposing that the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline be shut down if Russia continues its (as he sees it) “aggressive posture against neighboring states and Europe.” He expects German foreign policy to join these views.
Note that NordStream 2 does not even pass through Lithuania.
Nauseda, in office since May 2019, is a banker-politician, who before his election worked as advisor to the biggest bank in Lithuania, Sweden’s SEB bank. He is a 100-percent pro-European and NATO politician, who apparently has decided that Lithuania’s role in the world is to serve as a cat’s paw for British war hawks. Not just against Russia. His government moved last July towards de facto recognition of Taiwan as a separate country.
