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#Bestof2021: Seven months before the Russian attack, foreshadows in Lithuania: #Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally post

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#Bestof2021: Seven months before the Russian attack, foreshadows in Lithuania: #Great Migration: Forty yards from the KGB HQ in Vilnius, watching for Russia to invade again. Michael Yon, Locals.com/YON #FriendsoftheHistoryDebatingSociety (Originally posted July 24, 2021)

https://coldwarsites.net/country/lithuania/the-kgb-building-prison-and-memorials-vilnius/

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0:00.0

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0:04.3

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0:22.0

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0:26.4

Superkins on Global Player. I'm John Batcher. This is Friends of History Debating Society

0:34.1

visiting with Michael Jan. He is in Vilnius Lithuania near the Russian frontier, and the question

0:40.5

Michael has been asking for several weeks now in Lithuania is what is to be done with a

0:47.0

with the threat of the Russian Federation against NATO because Michael's on the front lines. He'd

0:52.9

be a road bump on the way to Paris. Michael, what have you learned about the Lithuanian military

0:59.5

and its preparations? Right, in fact, again, I'm sitting literally 40 meters away from the

1:07.1

old KGB headquarters. So for the things that we're talking about now, I would be dragged in there

1:11.8

and tortured and killed not long ago. And so they're very concerned that Lithuanians and

1:18.0

Estonians, Latvian, Polish, everybody's quite concerned that the Russian bear will come back again

1:23.6

because they know as soon as it's got the strength and power, it'll do it. One of the things that

1:28.0

the Lithuanians are concerned about as an invasion from the Russians and that they'll just come in

1:33.3

and seize a great deal of Lithuanian territory immediately start to negotiate and then just

1:39.6

keep that part of the territory. And that's quite doable. Their military here is not powerful,

1:47.4

not large, and they know that. And the Russians just have them outnumbered and out

1:52.7

everything, out terrain, out gear. What about NATO, Michael? What do the Lithuanians say about NATO?

2:02.7

Well, I'm not going to say what Lithuanians say. I'll say what I say. NATO is worthless

2:07.4

except for the United States. And I've seen them in action in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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