Lithuania warns its citizens of possible Russian invasion

[uhnope]

VILNIUS (Reuters) - Lithuania is publishing a manual to advise its citizens on how to survive a war on its soil as concerns grow that Russia's intervention in Ukraine heralds increased assertiveness in its tiny Baltic neighbors.

"Keep a sound mind, don't panic and don't lose clear thinking," the manual explains. "Gunshots just outside your window are not the end of the world."

The manual, which the Defence Ministry will send to libraries next week and also distribute at army events, says Lithuanians should resist foreign occupation with demonstrations and strikes, "or at least doing your job worse than usual". In the event of invasion, the manual says Lithuanians should organize themselves through Twitter and Facebook and attempt cyber attacks against the enemy.

Lithuania spent much of the last century incorporated in Soviet Union, along with Latvia and Estonia, and upon independence in 1991 quickly sought to join the Western NATO alliance and the European Union. It is increasingly worried about Russia, not least because of a military drill in the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad last month that featured 9,000 soldiers and more than 55 naval vessels.

http://news.yahoo.com/worried-russia-lithuania-says-keep-calm-read-war-103856106.html

[Nye Bevan]

1. A NATO country. Putin would be an idiot to do this,

but if he does we are obliged to respond.

[leveymg]

2. I got a copy of that same manual in Grade School

The Russians are Coming! The Russians are Coming!

[rogerashton]

3. And because Kaliningrad Oblast is separated from the rest of Russia

by a piece of Lithuania, and because Lithuania has a substantial minority of Russians and "Russophones," though they are outnumbered by Poles.

http://www.truelithuania.com/topics/culture-of-lithuania/ethnicities-of-lithuania

Still, that message is remarkably defeatist, a particular in recommending "dogging it" as a form of resistance.