Given the Russian maneuvers in Belarus Lithuania is urging a change in NATO’s strategy for the alliance’s eastern borders. “Russia’s presence in Belarus practically means that, from Moscow’s point of view, the Baltic states can be separated more easily from NATO territory and that the alliance has less time to react to attacks from Russia,” Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis told the newspaper “Welt”. before the NATO defense ministers’ meeting in Brussels on Wednesday.
the NATO must focus more on the new development of Russian troops in Belarus and quickly adjust their deterrence strategy. “We are now seeing a new phase of Russian aggression: a new military cooperation between Russia and Belarus, which suggests that today both armies are practically united and receive a unified command from Moscow.” Russia is behaving extremely belligerently. “Everything we see points to an attack on Ukraine.”
From a practical point of view, everything that is needed militarily is now available. “The preparations for war are complete. Soldiers, military equipment, support troops, commando units – everything is there. And you can imagine that it is quite expensive to keep such an army operational on another country’s border. It doesn’t just happen like that.”