Tuesday, Nov. 23 marked a new stage in the relations of two states known as great powers in the Indo-Pacific, with the first “Indo-Pacific Strategic Dialogue” held between the United States and ... Lithuania.
In a Nov. 24 press release, the U.S. State Department enthused about the opportunity to underscore “ironclad U.S. solidarity with our NATO ally and EU partner Lithuania as it faces geopolitical challenges to regional stability, security, and economic prosperity.” What sorts of challenges and collaboration? Lithuania’s concern about “Russia’s unusual military activity” and its “leadership in supporting the Belarusian pro-democracy movement and called on the Lukashenko regime to immediately cease its violent crackdown against Belarusian civil society and halt its campaign of orchestrating irregular migrant flows across its borders.”
