Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

CEO @GSSC_LT, Lecturer @TSPMI, @AtlanticCouncil Millennium Fellow, Top 2 influencer in 🇱🇹, @CambridgeEMBA, @OxfordSBS, @VU_LT alumn. RTs ≠ endt. linaskojala.lt Vilnius Joined April 2009

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Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

8 hours ago

If US funding for the Baltic Security Initiative is cut (still unclear), it would end a mutually beneficial project. But 🇱🇹🇺🇸 deterrence stands: 1,000 US troops in Lithuania today make NATO stronger and our defense more resilient.

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Lithuanian MOD 🇱🇹 @Lithuanian_MoD

a day ago

🎯 Lithuania plans legal changes allowing its military to shoot down drones faster — not only in prohibited, but also in restricted airspace — to protect civil aviation and react swiftly to possible threats.

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Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

19 hours ago

Russia’s most oft-cited demand for ending the war is a guarantee that Ukraine will never join NATO. The alliance declared in 2008 that Ukraine would eventually become a member and has repeated the vow regularly since then. @nytimes This is misleading. The 2008 NATO pledge to…

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laurence norman @laurnorman

a day ago

And Russiq doesn’t even let its citizens call it a war when it invades your country in breach of all its promises and obligations and kills your people.

Mikhail Ulyanov @Amb_Ulyanov

2 days ago

And Russiq doesn’t even let its citizens call it a war when it invades your country in breach of all its promises and obligations and kills your people.

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Heorhii Tykhyi @SpoxUkraineMFA

2 days ago

What Russia has achieved thus far: ✅ Over 1 million killed and wounded Russian soldiers; ✅ 1% of captured Ukrainian territory over the past 1000 days, with only 0,3% during the ‘summer offensive’; ✅ Russia seized 4 Ukrainian administrative centers in 2014, while Ukraine…

BBC News (UK) @BBCNews

2 days ago

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Peter Rough @peterrough

2 days ago

“Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America.”

Trump Truth Social Posts On X @TrumpTruthOnX

3 days ago

“Please give my warmest regards to Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un, as you conspire against The United States of America.”

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Janis Kluge @jakluge

2 days ago

Russian oil and gas revenues remained very low in August, amounting to just 505 billion rubles or 2.8% of GDP. Oil taxes recovered slightly since June, but fuel subsidies increased as well. Chart in % of GDP:

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Shashank Joshi @shashj

3 days ago

Kommersant interview with @o_yanovsky, an academic at MGIMO, in which he complains that Europe—which spends around 2% of its GDP on defence on average, compared to Russia's 7%—is "militarising" the continent by "the transfer of spending from the social sphere to defense" to…

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Bundeskanzler Friedrich Merz @bundeskanzler

3 days ago

Putin ist ein Kriegsverbrecher. Er ist vielleicht der schwerste Kriegsverbrecher unserer Zeit, den wir im großen Maßstab sehen. Wir müssen uns darüber im Klaren sein, wie man mit Kriegsverbrechern umgeht: Da ist Nachgiebigkeit fehl am Platz.

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Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

3 days ago

“A mass-produced deep-strike weapon like the Flamingo is arguably Ukraine’s strongest security guarantee in a postwar European order,” @FRHoffmann1, a weapons expert at the University of Oslo

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Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

4 days ago

From Aug. 1 to 15, the day of the Alaska meeting, Russia’s drone launches averaged about 76 a day. After the meeting, that figure almost doubled to about 141 a day. @WSJ

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Yaroslav Trofimov @yarotrof

4 days ago

A map on the wall of the chief of the Russian General Staff Gerasimov — likely representing Russian military objectives in Ukraine (which encompass half the country, including Kharkiv and Odesa.)

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Lithuanian_Armed_Forces @LTU_Army

4 days ago

Starting tomorrow, Lithuania launches exercise #ThunderStrike2025 Over 17,000 Lithuanian and Allied troops will train on land, at sea and in the air until the end of October. The main goal - to test the actual defense plan and assess the readiness of units & HQs to execute it.

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Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

4 days ago

💡 Lithuania 🇱🇹 ranks as NATO’s 2nd-highest defense spender in 2025. Next year, the budget will climb to 5.25% of GDP. Together with Poland 🇵🇱, Latvia 🇱🇻, Estonia 🇪🇪 & Norway 🇳🇴, it’s in the top five. Defense starts with responsibility — then solidarity and #StrongerTogether…

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Gitanas Nausėda @GitanasNauseda

4 days ago

Rivals on the field, friends in the stands. #EuroBasket2025 : Lithuania vs Finland.

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Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

4 days ago

“The West’s era of dominance is over,” Xi, Modi, and Putin declared at the SCO summit. The SCO, representing nearly half the world’s population and 23.5% of global GDP, counters Western influence. Yet unity is limited: - Russia depends on China to sustain its war effort. - Iran…

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Linas Kojala @LinasKojala

4 days ago

A plane carrying EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen was reportedly disrupted by Russia's GPS satellite navigation system. Per the Financial Times, the plane circled for an hour longer than planned. The pilot landed manually in Plovdiv, Bulgaria, using analogue maps.

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ian bremmer @ianbremmer

6 days ago

china and india, sure. but harder to say russia is one of the world’s most powerful nations. gdp the size of canada, lagging technologically and incapable of militarily taking over ukraine. lots of nukes and a gas station.