Spent the past week in Rio de Janeiro 🇧🇷 attending the 20th Forte International Security Conference. Spoke on the panel on autocracies vs democracies & international security.

My address focused on dissecting Russia’s colonial nature and its continued imperial mindset. 1/8

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1665362172803796994

While many former empires disintegrated in the 20th century, one colonial empire (the world's largest state up to this day!), retained its colonial nature, though its names kept changing. 2/8

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1665362175144108032

War in Ukraine is not a “Ukrainian crisis”, as war criminal Putin says. This is a war against democracies, a war launched by a dying colonial empire against a free nation.

It’s only Ukraine now that’s protecting Europe from the colonial vultures from the Kremlin. 3/8

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1665362176775733251

Thankfully, Europe has finally realized what the true face of Putin’s Russia is.

Putin is a 21st war criminal. He is no better than Stalin or Hitler. Hopefully this realization in countries further away from Russia will follow. 4/8

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1665362178940063745

What can and should we do if we want s u s t a i n a b l e peace on the European continent?

Paradoxically, the only answer is arms. All the weapons needed for Ukraine to defend itself and liberate all its lands have to be provided. 5/8

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/RJukneviciene/status/1665362181108408321