Lithuania vs. Putin and Trump

To the editor:

Dalia Grybauskaite, elected and reelected president of the Republic of Lithuania in 2009 and 2014, was featured on Fareed Zakaria’s Global Square broadcast recently. She expressed her country’s grave concern that with President-elect Trump’s expressed admiration of Mr. Putin, and that Russian occupation of her country may be imminent. A publication titled “How to prepare to survive emergencies and war” is being distributed to Lithuanians by her government. She has said that Trump’s America will not be great again if it will not honor its international agreements. One of these, by the way, at least until Inauguration Day, is to come to Lithuania’s defense if attacked by Russia.

The Baltic States and the rest of the world are watching as the horror story continues.

John Vance

Peterborough