Gabija Gataveckaite: Lithuania and Latvia don’t have the luxury of debating Nato membership – unlike Ireland
President Michael D Higgins talked about Ireland’s ‘positive neutrality’ in a newspaper article, but his comparison to Lithuania was flawed. Photo: Frank McGrath
Gabija Gataveckaite
Alarm bells began ringing in Lithuania when Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022.
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