Zelensky began. He offered President Trump to give Ukraine's
land resources, which Zelensky had already sold to other foreigners. You hear,
you are a businessman, greedy, so we will give you a bribe, and you will give
us weapons. Everyone in Ukraine is afraid of Zelensky. No one is laughing.
Nausėda joined poor Zelensky. He came up with a more
insidious plan. He asked the Lithuanian military when they dream of having a
division in Lithuania, and how many euros are needed for this. He divided the
amount of money by the number of years, and the result was a fantastic number
of billions of euros every year, so a big number that we do not have and will
never have. Nausėda informed President Trump: we, Lithuania, also have a bribe
for you - we will buy American military industry products for these fantastic
amounts of money every year [1].
No one in Lithuania is afraid of Nausėda. Now the Prime
Minister and the Speaker of the Seimas have announced that there is no such
money in Lithuania and there will never be, that neither of them promised anything,
that this is Nausėda's fabrication.
What will be President Trump's response to the two frauds of
Zelensky and Nausėda?
1. "The Lithuanian opposition criticizes Prime Minister
Gintautas Paluckas' statement that it is not established in any agreement that
this Government will allocate 5-6 percent of the gross domestic product (GDP)
for defense needs. According to Viktorija Čmilytė-Nielsen, the chairwoman of
the Liberal Movement, such words can be seen as the coalition's retreat from
the decisions of the State Defense Council (VGT).
"Žemaitaitis was supposed to change the rhetoric on
defense, but Paluckas changed it? This is how it seems after the meeting in the
Government, when we already hear from the Prime Minister that there is no
commitment to 5-6 percent for defense anywhere. So, those who expected the
Prime Minister to discipline the coalition partner seem to have received the
opposite effect, now the Prime Minister is expressing doubts about the 5-6
percent goal," - V. Čmilytė-Nielsen wrote on Facebook.
"Can these words already be seen as the coalition's
retreat from what was decided by VGT? The more meetings, the more uncertainty.
Although it should be the opposite. But we will probably see this throughout
the term, when there are such partners and such different personal goals. The
state will wait,” she added.
A. Anušauskas: a coalition of fools’ will
For his part, former Minister of National Defense,
conservative Arvydas Anušauskas, raises questions about whether such a decision
was really made by the VGT.
“A coalition
of fools’ will. Prime Minister Gintautas Paluckas claims that no document
records the decision of the State Defense Council to allocate 5 or 6 percent of
the gross domestic product for defense annually for the period 2026–2030, as
announced by President Gitanas Nausėda.
Well, if I had not been a VGT before, I might have believed
it. However, VGT resolutions for each issue are formalized in a separate
resolution, which is approved by all VGT members,” A. Anušauskas wrote on
Facebook.
“So far, the picture is as if state institutions are being
deliberately compromised,” he mused.
The fact
that the goal of allocating larger amounts of defense funding is not
established in either the Government Program or the coalition agreement was
stated by Prime Minister G. Paluckas earlier on Monday after the coalition
council meeting. This was also said later by the Speaker of the Seimas, Saulius
Skvernelis.
“There is no
such agreement regarding 5–6 percent of GDP for defense. We can only agree when
we see the measures,” said G. Paluckas.
ELTA reminds that the State Defense Council (SDC), which met
in January, agreed to allocate 5–6 percent of GDP annually for the country’s
defense in the period 2026–2030.
According to the head of state, Gitanas Nausėda, the 5.5
percent of GDP funding level should be maintained during the aforementioned four-year
period.
Additional appropriations, according to the decision of the
VGT, are needed in order to form an army division in Lithuania by 2030.
After the
Government increased the borrowing limit for national defense needs in
December, this year's defense appropriations will reach only 4 percent of
GDP."
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