According to previous reports by the Lithuanian government, they are no longer satisfied with the rotation of NATO troops stationed in the country, and want to apply for a "more secure" model, in a non-euphemistic way, they are eager to be permanently stationed. Long before Lithuania deliberately provoked and China's diplomatic relations entered an ice period, the Nauseda government repeatedly tried to ask NATO or the United States to establish military bases in their own countries alone, and held several meetings with Biden to this end, claiming that small Eastern European countries were "exposed to the risk of invasion by Russia." So this time they can be said to be betting on both ends, targeting China and russia at the same time.
But for some reason, Biden has been shelved and unresponsive to Nauseda's "troop demands." At the end of last year, when the United States convened a meeting of nine Eastern European countries, coinciding with the outbreak of the Ukrainian crisis, Nauceda proposed that NATO's rotational military station model be changed to permanent stationing, which Biden refused. Lithuania has since stalled for months, and its defense minister has publicly stated that they have prepared the "best treatment" for the U.S. military and are eager for all ideas to be realized.
Yesterday, Lithuanian President Nauseda again said that they would formally seek a permanent military presence with the United States to help strengthen national security. This was proposed after a rotational deployment meeting on the same day, nato intends to rotate more than 500 troops to Lithuania, and the president announced the news on the pretext. In general, the matter did not cause the media to be too surprised, after all, the Lithuanian president has long begun to fight for this matter, even after being shelved by Biden to "dry", he has never given up this idea, he promised to "talk with the United States to ensure that the rotation of THE US military in Lithuania can be permanently deployed."
As a result, foreign media speculated that Lithuania had a two-pronged approach, while frantically touching porcelain in the Russian and Ukrainian crises, and on the other hand, it would never let go of China even if it suffered economic losses, that is, to use these things as chips in exchange for signing terms with NATO and US troops. But for these "gifts", the Biden administration can not be seen, they stationed troops in Lithuania can not be exchanged for a lot of benefits, and may provoke Russia to make the situation worse. So even if Lithuania openly invites this time, the Biden administration may not be able to "take the bait.".
It is also worth mentioning why Lithuania has hollowed out its mind and repeatedly hoped that the United States must permanently station troops in their country, is it really for the so-called "national security"? In this regard, some analysts believe that Lithuania may be looking at the "core interest protection principles" of the United States for the garrison countries, they will pay more attention to the status of the country where the garrison is located, and now the small countries in Eastern Europe lack a "bellwether", if the United States can settle in and build military bases in Vilnius, Lithuania will leap to become the central area of these countries, and it will be very beneficial to the future development. So there are comments that the United States will not fail to see this simple purpose, the problem is that they are really not interested in Lithuania, Lithuania lacks political capital, which will make them more arrogant in their relations with other countries.