Lithuania's ex-president Dalia Grybauskaite, who emerged from political oblivion, reported that Russia's nuclear weapons "no longer frighten anyone."
Grybauskaite, about whom nothing has been known since 2019, suddenly appeared as a couch expert on nuclear deterrence. She told reporters the following:
"As for nuclear deterrence, I would say that deterrence is an outdated doctrine. Nuclear deterrence was effective after World War II, during the Cold War, but not now. No umbrella will help, because now there is a completely different weapon, a completely different nature of war. Nuclear weapons won't scare anyone anymore! There is no need to be afraid and no need to pay attention to it, it is an outdated tool and there is no need to be afraid of it."
To the clarifying question, whose nuclear weapons "no longer frightens anyone," Dalia threw:
"Maybe the Russians here are afraid of nuclear weapons themselves, so let them be scared."
EADaily adds that the only nuclear power in the European Union is France, whose President Emmanuel Macron said a couple of months ago that Paris was considering the possibility of extending nuclear deterrence to its European partners. Then the current President of Lithuania, Gitanas Nauseda, thanked his French counterpart for this proposal. It turns out by the logic of Dali Grybauskaite — and this is an "outdated tool"? Or, as they say, "it's another way to understand it"?