{"id":285167,"date":"2024-04-09T06:45:39","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T06:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=285167"},"modified":"2024-04-11T07:09:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-11T07:09:02","slug":"russia-protests-german-military-buildup-in-lithuania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=285167","title":{"rendered":"Russia Protests German Military Buildup in Lithuania"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>German troops arrive in Lithuania, their first long-term foreign deployment since World War II<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Liudas Dapkus \u2013 AP Apr 8, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Lithuanian leaders hailed a \u201chistoric event\u201d as Germany on Monday began deploying troops in the Baltic country \u2014 a NATO member \u2014 marking the first time since World War II that German forces will be based outside the country on a long-term basis.<\/p>\n<p>About two dozen soldiers arrived in Lithuania, laying the groundwork for a further 150 to join them later this year. The deployment is expected to be up to its full strength of 5,000 by the end of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the first time that we have permanently stationed such a unit outside of Germany,\u201d German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius said in Berlin at a farewell ceremony for the preliminary command of Germany\u2019s Lithuanian brigade, according to German news agency dpa. Pistorius called it \u201can important day for the German army.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In the Lithuanian capital, Vilnius, Defense Minister Laurynas Kasciunas said that the move was \u201ca great example\u201d for all the countries on NATO\u2019s eastern flank, on the border with Russia and its ally, Belarus.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe will create such a defense and deterrence architecture that no adversary from the east will even think about testing NATO\u2019s Article 5,\u201d he told reporters.<\/p>\n<p>Article 5 on collective defense is at the heart of the 32-member North Atlantic Treaty Organization. It states that an armed attack against one or more of the members shall be considered an attack against all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/lithuania-germany-troops-deployed-nato-kaliningrad-belarus-583e693c36c7a51bb798ca2016ecf493\">Continues&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Russian Warning On &#8220;Hotbeds Of Danger&#8221; As First German Brigade Troops Arrive In Lithuania<\/strong><\/h1>\n<h2 style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Crux \u2013 YouTube.com Apr 8, 2024<\/strong><\/h2>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/WuYJGI1CgvY?si=jGlFmfTBIxYGjFbE\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><br \/>\n&#8212;<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=WuYJGI1CgvY\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kremlin spokesman warns that German military deployment to Lithuania directly threatens Russian border security. Moscow&#8217;s unhappiness with the deployment is understandable. The last time the German military deployed so close to Russia was during WWII, when over 25 million Russians were killed    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":285170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[58,91],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-285167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-Current_Affairs","category-russia"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=285167"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285167\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":285197,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285167\/revisions\/285197"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/285170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=285167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=285167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=285167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}