By Benas Gerdžiūnas, LRT.lt.
Lithuania has staked its security on the United States and its military presence in the region as well as the unity of NATO. But if that fails – is there a plan B?
“The old order is not coming back. We should not mourn it. Nostalgia is not a strategy,” Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney said at the World Leaders Forum in Davos last week.
“The power of the less powerful begins with honesty” that the US-led world order has finished, the Canadian leader said in a speech that some observers have called historic.
Yet Lithuanian leaders are trying to simply endure this global transformation – even as discussions about “spheres of influence” and their potentially tragic consequences for the Baltic states are already taking place in the Vilnius political bubble.
“TS-LKD is now in an apocalyptic mood,” said one conservative politician. “Everyone is worried,” a senior Social Democrat politician added.
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