US President Donald Trump says the conflict in Ukraine started because of Zelensky's requests to send NATO troops to Ukraine. Now G. Nausėda is again agitating to send NATO troops to Ukraine. Why is such a determination to start a nuclear war emanating from G. Nausėda’s glass house in a park?

 

 

“President Gitanas Nausėda stated that Lithuania is ready to send peacekeepers to Ukraine, but only together with other allies. In addition, according to him, Lithuania is ready to accept more US troops, but this depends on the political decision of the Americans.

 

"In an interview with Bloomberg on Friday, G. Nausėda assured that Lithuania is ready to provide all necessary support, including peacekeeping.

 

“We are talking about very specific numbers of our troops, but there should be a commitment from all countries in this coalition to provide this support. We are still discussing and it would be premature to reveal very specific numbers. I will be ready to provide these numbers during our meetings,” the president said in Brussels when asked about the number of peacekeepers he was talking about.

 

Peacekeeping mission still under discussion

 

French President Emmanuel Macron said on Thursday that leaders of the coalition supporting Ukraine would meet again in Paris next week to discuss these issues.

 

Macron, along with British Prime Minister Keir Starmer, are leading efforts to form a coalition to support Ukraine after US President Donald Trump began direct talks with Russia last month to end the three-year conflict.

 

Both Starmer and Macron have said they are ready to deploy peacekeepers in Ukraine.

 

Meanwhile, Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin agreed on a 30-day ceasefire in the energy infrastructure sector in a phone call on Tuesday, but they failed to reach an agreement on a full ceasefire.

 

Trump later spoke by phone with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky. According to the US leader, during the conversation he wanted to reconcile “Russian and Ukrainian requests and needs” for a ceasefire.

 

Nausėda said he had no doubt that Trump had a very “sincere intention to achieve peace, to seek a ceasefire.”

 

Representatives of Russia and Ukraine will hold separate talks with US officials in Saudi Arabia on Monday.

 

Nausėda said Europe could also play a very important role in the talks, but decisions would need to be made for this.

 

“We are making those decisions. We have a very clear position on increasing pressure on Russia, and we are also talking about further and greater military support for Ukraine, and I believe that those actions are the most effective if we want to continue and have negotiations through force,” the Lithuanian leader said.

 

Ready to accept more Americans

 

G. Nausėda stated in the same interview with Bloomberg, according to the BNS agency, that Lithuania is ready to accept more United States troops.

 

“We are ready to accept even more American troops, we have the necessary infrastructure for this, we are ready to provide them with all the necessary support. This is a matter of political decision-making and I very much hope that this decision will be made,” the president said.

 

G. Nausėda noted that Lithuania currently has “very positive signs” that the US focus on NATO’s eastern flank will remain strong.

 

Currently, just over 1,000 US troops are serving in Lithuania on a rotational basis.

 

US ground forces have been rotating in the Baltics and Eastern Europe since spring 2014 as part of Operation Atlantic Resolve in the eastern part of NATO. US heavy battalions have been rotating in Lithuania since 2019.

 

Asked whether Lithuania would be willing to accept French nuclear weapons, G. Nausėda indicated that the deployment of any nuclear weapons on the country’s territory is not under discussion yet.

 

“But we want and will be ready to discuss the possibility of using this nuclear shield, or at least the idea of ​​a nuclear shield for the eastern flank, including my country,” G. Nausėda said.

 

E. Macron stated a few weeks ago that Paris is considering the possibility of expanding the country’s nuclear deterrent to European partners.

 

According to G. Nausėda, this idea of ​​E. Macron is “very interesting”, but Lithuania needs answers and algorithms on what such a nuclear “umbrella” would look like.

 

“And, of course, President Macron expressed the position that it is probably necessary to send experts and discuss at an expert level,” the Lithuanian leader added.

 

So what role is the EU ready to play in the negotiations, Mr. Nausėda? To sabotage the negotiations with proposals and demands unacceptable to the Russians? To try destroying the diplomacy of President D. Trump?