Lithuania began construction today on a military base, which will accommodate up to 4,000 combat-ready German troops, once completed by the end of 2027. Lithuania, and its NATO overseers, chose the base site to be in Rudninkai, 12 miles from its border with Belarus.
Lithuanian Chief of Defense Gen. Raimundas Vaiksnoras estimated that the country would spend more than €1 billion over the next three years to develop the base, one of the largest military construction projects in Lithuania’s history. Lithuania is a small country with a population of 2.82 million people.
The forward base would indicate that the British-NATO-American-EU combine is forming a commitment to a longer-term strategy of “permanent or total war” against Russia, for which the war in Ukraine is merely a pretext.
The base will accommodate troops, storage and maintenance for tanks and other equipment, and shooting ranges of all sizes. About a thousand more German military and civilian contractors will be posted to other sites in Lithuania, reports Reuters. This is the first permanent foreign deployment for the German military since World War II.
Lithuania is the current base of Belarus color-revolution poster-girl Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya. She received 10% of the vote in the 2020 Belarusian presidential election, and claiming that she had won the election, she fled to Vilnius, Lithuania, which has become the home of the hardcore opposition to the government of Aleksandr Lukashenko..
Moreover, on May 26, the Lithuanian Interior Minister Agnė Bilotaitė told the domestic news agency BNS that Lithuania is taking the lead in building a drone “border wall.” “This is a completely new thing—a drone border from Norway to Poland, the purpose of which would be to protect our border with the help of drones and other technologies,” Bilotaitė said. The “wall” is aimed largesly against Russia and Belarus.
