Tautos Jėga Vienybėje

But "unity" with what, and with whom? The EU has required the closure of the Ignalina facility. Most emphasis here is on the fact that this will make Lithuania more dependent on Russia. So it will. But Lithuania, with her large ethnically Russian minority (which is of very long standing - it is simply false that the Russians in the Baltic States were only put there by the Soviet Union) should make the most of this.

The EU, like the US that lies behind it, normally wants to alienate Russia, to define her as purely part of Central Asia (with which comes the wider Islamic world) and the Far East, rather than as both the bridge to them and the bulwark against them on the part of the civilisation defined by the recapitulation in Jesus Christ and His Church of all three of the Old Israel, Hellenism and the Roman Empire.

It is properly in those terms, and not in terms of dependence on Russian gas, that relations with Russia should be conducted. Such relations are therefore properly defined by celebration, not resentment, of the fact of our ties to Russia and of Russia's ties to us. Independence from Russia is in fact an argument for nuclear power, though far from the most important. However, if the closure of Ignalina proves a means to the permanently vital integration of Russia into the Biblical-Classical civilisation that is the True West, and absolutely nothing to do with the EU or with the American hegemony desired by that declining body of Americans who want any such thing, then so be it.

Lithuania, over to you.