Lithuania, like Poland, has been under severe pressure imposed by Belarus President Alexander Lukashenko’s “hybrid war” against the European Union. In August, Lithuania declared a “state-level extreme situation” over the migrant crisis as some 4,000 illegals, mostly from Iraq, crossed the border between Belarus and Lithuania. 

Also in that month, Muslims threatened Lithuania with jihad bombings at shopping malls, entertainment centers and office buildings, which would of course have prompted even more concern about border security. By the end of August, the small embattled country joined a list of other EU countries to build a wall to protect its “border of democracy” from the surge of Muslim migrants.

Now Lithuania is paying Muslim migrant deportees to go back to Iraq. Lithuania should not be in this position in the first place. But it fights two forces: illegal migrants (caused by Belarus’ vengeful Lukashenko) beating down its borders, and EU globalists, pressuring sensible EU countries (including Lithuania) to fling open their doors to unvetted migration as a “human right.

After a cost-benefit analysis, Lithuania opted to pay the Iraqi migrants, who took the money and went back home peacefully. For now.