The Baltic Holocaust and Russophobia
In June 1941, Hitler had launched a surprise attack on the Soviet Union, overrunning the Baltics in a few weeks […]
Baltics
Baltic States Between Russia and a Hard Place
The Baltic States, a long dormant political issue, reactivated itself following the Ukrainian coup of 2014, as the leaders of these states believed that they could benefit from fanning the flames of conflict. In that they were likely mistaken, as the status of the Baltics in the future of the European order is far from certain […]
Why’s Estonia Once Again Bringing Up A Debunked Border Scandal With Russia?
Estonia’s bizarre New Year’s tradition is nothing more than a desperate attempt to generate attention from its distracted American ally and promote ultra-nationalist narratives at home. The Baltic country joined NATO in 2004 in adherence to the bloc’s stipulation that none of its members have unresolved territorial disputes […]
Lithuania: War Hero or Nazi Collaborator? “General Storm” Resisted the Soviets but What did he do to the Jews?
Vilnius trial will see whether Jonas Noreika was whitewashed by Lithuania’s Genocide and Resistance Research Center; his granddaughter says he did his best to help Nazis kill Jews […]
Pre- and Post-Soviet Language Policy in the East-Baltic States
All three East-Baltic States introduced obligatory language classes of their national languages until the end of the secondary level education […]
Will Lithuanian Emigrants Return Back to Lithuania?
I am a Lithuanian, but I leave abroad and I am not going back. At least now, at least until the Government does not pay attention to its people […]
Fake Solidarity by NATO
Thus, Minister of Defense of Lithuania Raimundas Karoblis, either does not understand what is happening in the countries of the world in a pandemic or lives in a parallel reality […]
The “Non-Citizens” of the Baltic States: Α European Scandal Nobody Speaks about!
I can imagine what the reaction of the EU institutions would be if a state like Russia or Belarus had an extremely high proportion of persons deprived of citizenship and, consequently, of the full scope of citizens’ rights […]
Nationalism Rising: A Torchlight March for Lithuania
I was invited to Vilnius by a youth organization called Kryptis. On February 15, I spoke at a conference of identitarians from Poland, Germany, Ukraine, Britain, the United States, and Lithuania. It was a very successful first international conference for Kryptis, but the highlight was the march. Torchlight parades are an increasingly prominent nationalist gesture in Europe, but in some countries they are frowned on as jingoistic or even “neo-Nazi” […]
Trump Buys Lithuania, EU cannot Stop It
Unfortunately, being a member of the EU, Lithuania so hardly depends on the US in military and security spheres that it often mixes up its real needs, responsibilities to the EU with the US interests in the region. Such approach could seriously complicate the relations with neighbouring Russia and Belarus which Lithuania borders […]
Russian Geopolitics from Ivan the Terrible to Vladimir Putin
According to the geographer George Friedman, nations are like chess players who act in the narrow limits of a series of rules that reduce the range of good moves. The more logic a player is, the more predictable he is because he’s able to chose the best tactics “until that one brilliant unexpected stroke” […]
A Liberal Democracy, a Market Capitalist Economy and the Permanent Wars
My hypothesis is that a market economy requires a permanent state of war. Behind the crocodile tears for the human disasters and ‘white man burden,’ people and nature are of value in themselves and war does a good job at consuming both very quickly […]
