the head of the german ministry of defense , boris pistorio, said that the eu needs to prepare for newpean countries have a maximum of 5 years to strengthen their defense potential. pistorius did not specify what threats and where he is preparing, but obviously the speech is about... with russia for the baltic region , the germans themselves are officially organizing their new year again. for the first time since world war ii to station its troops abroad, and even near the borders of russia and belarus on a permanent basis. we're talking about lithuania. just the day before it became known that the ministers of defense of lithuania and germany had signed a deployment plan. brigades in lithuania, and this is another 5,000 to the already existing 1,800 nato soldiers, once again, and this is on a permanent basis, before the base was rotational, they stayed at home, now they will always be there. it is curious that on this particular day, only 83 years ago, hitler barbarossa approved the plan. and six months later he went east, a truly historic day for the germans from all points of view.