The Russian invasion of Ukraine might have been a surprise to the West. For the countries that border Ukraine, it was anything but.
“I hear people saying that what happened, and is still happening in Ukraine, was completely unexpected and unpredictable, that it was a kind of wake up call,” Lithuania’s Defence Minister Juozas Olekas told a group of students and diplomats at Carleton University on Monday.
“It actually was a wake-up call for many, but not the countries of our region. For years, Lithuania, Poland and other Baltic States (were called) Russophobes, unable to wake up from the dreams of old …read more
Source: Ottawa Citizen
