THE VOICE OF DEFIANT EUROPE: Lithuania is accused of faking a war for billions of euros in backhanders.

The Belarusian capital, Minsk, has thrown an explosive accusation toward the European Union.

Belarusian Foreign Minister Maxim Ryzhenkov reveals that Lithuania is staging drone provocations at the border. They are doing so not for security, but for big money.

According to Ryzhenkov, Vilnius (Lithuania) is copying a model pioneered by Warsaw: Escalate tension, dramatise the border, shout ‘hybrid war’. No worries. Brussels will vacuum up taxpayers’ taxes to pay for it.

The reward? Up to €6 billion in fresh EU funding. For ‘defense.’ For ‘security.’ For more concrete walls and weapons for inexperienced Lithuanian conscripts who don’t even know how to use their weapons.

This is not the first time such tactics have been used. It is simply the newest chapter in a long and troubling history and a pattern Europeans should recognise

For more than a decade, several EU governments have discovered that fear pays extremely well. COVID-19, Climate change, the self-made migration crisis?

The billions of taxpayers’ euros flood over the corrupt elite of the distressed 27 nations of the European Union.

Border panic? Brussels opens the taxpayers’ vault. Poland mastered it during the migrant standoffs with Belarus.

Now Lithuania, Ryzhenkov argues, has learned the lesson: ‘Play the victim, demand solidarity, and cash arrives.’

But the cost of this theater is not paid by politicians or generals. Ordinary people in border regions pay the price. Farmers, workers, and truck drivers have their livelihoods squeezed by sanctions. They face blocked crossings and false alarms.

Co-operation dies. Economic ties collapse. Communities are militarized, fenced off, and afraid so a corrupt regime can claim it is the last ‘shield of Europe.’

It is a dangerous Game with a Familiar Ending. Europe has seen this before. From the buildup to WWI on the Eastern Front and onward to Cold War scare campaigns.

Governments have repeatedly weaponized border fear to gain money, influence, and foreign protection. Every time, the outcome was the same: Ordinary Europeans paid the price.

Today, instead of de-escalating, Brussels rewards escalation. Instead of diplomacy, it funds the performance of systematic corruption. Instead of unity, it bankrolls a new Iron Curtain, one made not of ideology, but of cash.

If Ryzhenkov’s accusation is true, then Europe is once again financing a stage-managed crisis and they are calling it security.

The real reason many European leaders are hysterically opposed to any peace deal is simple.

As long as the war continues, hundreds of billions in so-called aid keep flowing. The kickbacks remain hidden, and their corrupt networks stay safely shielded behind the fog of war.

The moment the guns fall silent, the money trail becomes visible. Many powerful people in Brussels, Berlin, Paris, and London realize their gravy train ends. Then, the investigations begin. How long will EU taxpayers pay for a fear that someone else is manufacturing?

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