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Russian drone SHOT DOWN in NATO airspace · INSIGHT TODAY

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  Speaker 1: Secure supply and processing of critical minerals is essential to
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  Speaker 1: the 21st century economy. This is a very positive thing.
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  Speaker 1: Lithuania and the United States are going to jointly identify
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  Speaker 1: as part of all this priority projects and mobilize government
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  Speaker 1: and the private sector financing within six months.
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  Speaker 2: OK, so the U.S. has signed a new agreement this
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  Speaker 2: week with NATO ally Lithuania, an advanced manufacturing hub that's
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  Speaker 2: aimed at helping the U.S. reduce its dependence on China.
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  Speaker 2: It comes as NATO fighter jets just shot down a
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  Speaker 2: drone over Lithuanian airspace, with tensions now mounting across the Baltics.
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  Speaker 2: For more, let's bring in Lithuanian Foreign Affairs Minister Katustis Budrys. Minister,
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  Speaker 2: great to have you on the program today, ahead of
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  Speaker 2: your visit to the U.N. as well. I want to
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  Speaker 2: first talk to you about the drone strike into Lithuanian airspace.
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  Speaker 2: Tell us more about it. And do you expect Russia to.
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  Speaker 3: Send any more? Thank you for this great question. And yes,
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  Speaker 3: we had so many already incidents with Russian drones violating
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  Speaker 3: our aerospace as the very recent one this week when
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  Speaker 3: it was shot down by allied fighter jet above our territory.
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  Speaker 3: And this is the consequence of this ongoing brutal aggression
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  Speaker 3: against Ukraine. Russian drones derouted sometimes. We do not have
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  Speaker 3: the proof that it is intentional, but we cannot also
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  Speaker 3: say that it is not. So they also enter our
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  Speaker 3: airspace with explosives. It's really dangerous. They are going above
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  Speaker 3: our cities. So this time it was shot down, but
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  Speaker 3: we are so close from big, major casualty situation or
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  Speaker 3: some catastrophe happening. So that is why we have to
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  Speaker 3: continue putting pressure on Russia to stop this aggression and
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  Speaker 3: decrease the tension in the whole region because we are very,
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  Speaker 3: very close to something bad to happen.
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  Speaker 2: Well, you signed a pretty big deal with the U.S.
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  Speaker 2: this week on critical minerals. What kind of a message
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  Speaker 2: do you think this sends to President Putin who's watching this?
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  Speaker 3: Not only to Putin, but also to China. We all
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  Speaker 3: remember the situation one year ago when China introduced export
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  Speaker 3: controls and what consequences were for our industries. Lithuanian factories
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  Speaker 3: had to shut down because of lack of the materials.
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  Speaker 3: So that's why we needed leadership in the world to
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  Speaker 3: create new systems how we can decrease these dependencies on
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  Speaker 3: authoritarian regimes that are manipulating trade for the political purposes.
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  Speaker 3: So Russia and China. So Lithuania saw the big opportunity
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  Speaker 3: when U.S. took the leadership back in February this year
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  Speaker 3: and said that we will build a new system. The
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  Speaker 3: new system with partners that will be reliable, that we
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  Speaker 3: can trust, and that wouldn't be possible to manipulate. So
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  Speaker 3: we wanted to be part of it. With our industries
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  Speaker 3: and with the niche capabilities in photonics, in biotechnologies, and
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  Speaker 3: also providing the materials and components that can substitute China.
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  Speaker 3: So we are in a very good place. So we
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  Speaker 3: believe this idea that we can be less reliable, and
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  Speaker 3: especially in the strategic sectors, like defense industry and the others.
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  Speaker 2: And by the way, China's Xi is heading here to
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  Speaker 2: Washington next week to have a conversation with the president
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  Speaker 2: at the White House. I want to ask you very quickly,
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  Speaker 2: if I can, back to Russia. The Russia sanctions bill
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  Speaker 2: passed on the Hill, and the president just signed it
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  Speaker 2: into law. He hasn't indicated yet if he's going to
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  Speaker 2: use those sanctions. Do you think he ought to use
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  Speaker 2: them soon?
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  Speaker 3: This is such a great news and such a great tool.
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  Speaker 3: Each time when Putin showed his flexibility and stopped lying
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  Speaker 3: and deceiving everyone, he was threatened by the sanctions or
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  Speaker 3: sanctions were introduced by United States. So this time, President
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  Speaker 3: Trump gets a huge lever in the whole situation. And
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  Speaker 3: even the threat to use the primary sanctions against Russia
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  Speaker 3: or secondary sanctions against the main trade partners of Russia,
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  Speaker 3: it provides him the political power to put the pressure
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  Speaker 3: on Russia. And it also shows for us the way
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  Speaker 3: in Europe to follow with the sanctions.
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  Speaker 2: And would these sanctions work? I mean, could this bring
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  Speaker 2: an end to this war? Because we remember Joe Biden
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  Speaker 2: also tried sanctions and it didn't work.
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  Speaker 3: Sanctions are effective. They work. So they cause economic consequences
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  Speaker 3: and harm to Russia's abilities to generate finances and also
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  Speaker 3: to keep the war machine going. Whether it will change
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  Speaker 3: the political decision of Putin to stop this aggression, we
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  Speaker 3: need to act collectively. So that's why Europe has to
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  Speaker 3: do its part, the United States, which is a superpower economically,
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  Speaker 3: also its big role in convincing the other countries to
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  Speaker 3: follow the lead. So I think that we are in
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  Speaker 3: the moment where we can achieve the result. And we
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  Speaker 3: have constantly to do what we are doing, because it
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  Speaker 3: won't happen in one day. So we have to continue
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  Speaker 3: pressing and, of course, also helping Ukraine to survive this
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  Speaker 3: winter when Russia will try to weaponize cold again against
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  Speaker 3: its people.
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  Speaker 2: Talking about your neighbor Poland now, the president also announced
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  Speaker 2: this week a new deal with Poland to establish a U.S.
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  Speaker 2: Army base in that country. He says if it happens,
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  Speaker 2: the location will be announced soon. It'll be a historic
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  Speaker 2: step for our great U.S.-Polish alliance. NATO, the European Union,
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  Speaker 2: there's always complaints that the U.S. is abandoning Europe. Does
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  Speaker 2: this prove that we're not?
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  Speaker 3: There are troops in Lithuania, too. We are close to Poland,
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  Speaker 3: and there are troops deployed there. And Lithuania provides the
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  Speaker 3: best host nation support, I can tell this, in the world.
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  Speaker 3: What concerns conditions for your soldiers to train, to keep
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  Speaker 3: the readiness high, also to conditions to live and to
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  Speaker 3: enjoy the other life than the military life in Lithuania.
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  Speaker 3: And we will continue to do this. And we also
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  Speaker 3: know on both sides, the United States and us, that
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  Speaker 3: is the most strategically effective place to be because it
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  Speaker 3: keeps Russia out and it's effective deterrence. So we have
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  Speaker 3: to continue with this. And of course, you are right.
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  Speaker 3: It is the proof that we are not distancing from
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  Speaker 3: each other. We are still there. And United States is
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  Speaker 3: still the backbone of the transatlantic security in all directions,
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  Speaker 3: in the north, in the Arctic, with the great deal
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  Speaker 3: now in Greenland, albeit the very eastern flank where they
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  Speaker 3: were stationed. because they prove that it works. And that
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  Speaker 3: is how we keep peace in this part of the
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  Speaker 3: world for so many decades right now. And we don't
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  Speaker 3: have to change it.
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  Speaker 2: Looking ahead to the United Nations, there will be a
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  Speaker 2: lot that will come up, including this potential option to
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  Speaker 2: make Canada a part of the EU, an EU member.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, it's not in Europe. It's in North America.
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  Speaker 2: But there is this proposal. The president says Canada joining
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  Speaker 2: EU is laughable. Let's play the soundbite.
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  Speaker 1: I think it's laughable.
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  Speaker 4: Look, the whole thing with Canada, Canada has been a
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  Speaker 4: terrible trade partner. And no, I don't see that. And
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  Speaker 4: if they do that, if I think it's at all
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  Speaker 4: a hostile act, I will put very serious tariffs or
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  Speaker 4: stop trading with Europe. on many things. So if they
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  Speaker 4: do that, if Europe does that with a bad intention,
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  Speaker 4: if it's a good intention, that's fine. If it's a
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  Speaker 4: bad intention, we'll put very heavy tariffs on Europe.
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  Speaker 2: Do you think that Canada belongs in the EU?
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  Speaker 3: Lithuania will take the presidency next year for the Council
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  Speaker 3: of European Union. So we'll be leading the nation's member
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  Speaker 3: states in the process. Also, what concerns enlargement. But In
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  Speaker 3: this direction, when we talk about transatlantic relations, of course
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  Speaker 3: we're interested to have them closer, both with United States
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  Speaker 3: and with Canada. And priority for us is security. And
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  Speaker 3: when we talk security, so the first organization is NATO
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  Speaker 3: for it. So we have to get closer within NATO,
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  Speaker 3: invest more what we have to do in the defense,
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  Speaker 3: as Lithuania is doing. We have Canadian troops also on
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  Speaker 3: the eastern frontier. I think this is the framework where
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  Speaker 3: we have to develop the relations. So are you.
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  Speaker 2: Saying that Canada does not belong in the European Union?
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  Speaker 3: Well, geographically, they are not in Europe. It's not in Europe.
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  Speaker 3: What concerns allied relations, what concerns our values, so we
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  Speaker 3: all share the Western civilization values, also with the United States.
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  Speaker 3: So I think there are so many details. It's not
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  Speaker 3: a priority. It's a priority security now, and especially in
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  Speaker 3: this world that is transforming.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Minister Budris, thank you so much for coming on
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