[BoyRobot777]

> Now it is just another weird faceless post Soviet country that made into EU and NATO. No strategy, no goals, no future.

You've been reading too much propaganda. Living in Lithuania is become better each year. Lithuania's GDP is like Belarus, while the population is 3x smaller. Lithuania has surpassed russia in GDP per Capita long time ago. Lithuania is #11 in doing business [1]. Lithuania is Largest Fintech hub in the EU in terms of licensed companies[2]. Lithuania is one of global leaders when it comes to laser technology. And currently, there are talks between Taiwan and Lithuania about semi-conductor factory. And that is being achieved in only 30 years or so.

Regarding being faceless. Lithuania has showed that it has a strong spine again and again against authoritarian regimes. By hosting Belarusian pro democracy leaders [3], by support Ukraine in every possible way in their path to democracy, and yes, supporting Taiwan, which resulted in spat between China and Lithuania. While we old western countries talk, Lithuania walks the talk.

Lithuania has very much a face. And that's the face of being pro democracy. Yes they are small and they rely on their partners support, but they have values.

[1] https://www.doingbusiness.org/en/data/exploreeconomies/lithu... [2] https://investlithuania.com/fintech-report-2020-2021/ [3] https://www.rferl.org/a/belarus-lithuania-official-oppositio...

[lnsru]

Bring it on!!!

I really love that naive belief that lasers are somehow competitive in the world. I have 2 links for you: https://rekvizitai.vz.lt/m/imone/pieno_zvaigzdes/ and https://rekvizitai.vz.lt/m/imone/ekspla/

Lithuanian milk products are leading in the world! And they make some serious revenue compared to the lasers. Single German company is much bigger than everything laser related in Lithuania: https://app.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/maschinen...

I mean I was lured into this tale by Prof. Dr. Piskarskas too, but the reality is much different. Lithuania has magnificent food processing industry delivering products for the same old Soviet brotherhood countries as it did 50 years ago.

Regarding Taiwan and semiconductor factory. Sorry, I can’t take it serious being electrical engineer and working in semiconductor manufacturing.

The foreign policy is absolutely shit in Lithuania. Relationships with Poland and Latvia are a disaster. Relationship with Russia and Belarus plus China is kind of Cold War. Sorry, I can’t praise this. Just look at Israel: https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2021/7/8/jordan-israel-agree-... You see, you don’t must like everybody in the world, but business is business and well being of of the own people should be more important than some insane moral principles.

[BoyRobot777]

> And they make some serious revenue compared to the lasers.

I don't know why you've linked ekspla, which has 4x lower revenue than Light Conversion. And sure, the revenue is bigger in Pieno Zvaigzde, than in Light Conversion, but the profit is almost 3x lower[1][2]. Also, look at the grown of revenue. It's like night a day.

> Single German company is much bigger than everything laser related in Lithuania

So? Am I to understand that Germany has won the competition in laser related technologies and Lithuania has no chance?

> Regarding Taiwan and semiconductor factory. Sorry, I can’t take it serious being electrical engineer and working in semiconductor manufacturing.

We shall see :)

> The foreign policy is absolutely shit in Lithuania. Relationships with Poland and Latvia are a disaster.

Source? Because Poland and Lithuania has been cooperating on multiple levels and their relationship is at the highest right now. Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania also are cooperating on a lot of levels. Just recently, they've agree to create joint ‘operational area’ for defence[3]. They also agreed to jointly develop a MLRS artillery system for the first time. Thanks to russia, relationships are better than ever.

While relationships with authoritarian regimes were never warm to begin with so I don't see any loss here. Either you support pro-democracy or not. If not, relationship with these countries will be bad.

[1] https://rekvizitai.vz.lt/imone/pieno_zvaigzdes/apyvarta/ [2] https://rekvizitai.vz.lt/en/company/light_conversion/turnove... [3] https://www.lrt.lt/en/news-in-english/19/1569645/baltic-stat...

[lnsru]

I see, you are the real ambassador. I like that! But life is not black and white. There would be no loss for not being in a war against China, Russia and Belarus.