Are We On The Brink Of A New Cold War? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrSBVI1Vshc What Is Life Really Like In Estonia? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YT3okfzS6sg&t=103s Subscribe! http://bitly....
========== In August 2016, thousands of troops amassed
on the border of Lithuania and Russia. Growing threats of aggression have sparked
fears of a New Cold War, seeing Russia potentially invading Lithuania. Having one of the lowest GDPs in the European
Union and struggling with mass emigration, what is life really like in Lithuania? Well, Lithuania is the largest and southernmost
Baltic state, the others being Latvia and Estonia. It gained independence in 1990 just a year
before the collapse of the Soviet Union --the first Soviet state to do so-- and joined both
NATO and the EU in 2004. This, coupled with their WTO membership, has
led to extreme growth by increasing trade and investment from foreign nations. Lithuania ranked as Europe’s top-performing
econom...