Juozas Jurginis, Jr

Lithuania is our Motherland You are the land of heroes Your sons from the past That's where the power comes from... What an irony that I posted this photo on Kudirka Square on my birthday.

Perspective is everything. 🌎 The Earth that ISS astronauts see is much different than what Artemis II saw. One is an intimate, high-speed flyover; the other is a fragile "Blue Marble" in the dark. Here is half an orbit from earlier tonight.🔭

HMS Prince of Wales has arrived in Scotland to load ammunition ahead of Operation Firecrest, the Royal Navy's major deployment to the North Atlantic and High North designed to deter Russia. Click image for more. ukdefencejournal.org.uk/aircraft-carri…

Le baril a dépassé les 126 dollars cette nuit, un record depuis 4 ans. Faut-il se préparer à des prix encore plus importants à la pompe ? #JT13H

And we have liftoff for Ariane 6 🚀 Flight #VA268 has just left Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana and is heading to low Earth orbit.

‼️🇺🇸🇮🇷 Trump is seriously considering new strikes on Iran, with CENTCOM commander Brad Cooper set to brief him today on possible military options, according to reports. Source: i24 / Axios

🇹🇷 Turkey Unveils Next-Gen Kamikaze Drone: MIZRAK Changes the Game Turkey has introduced the MIZRAK loitering munition, a kamikaze drone designed for long-range precision strikes. 🔹 1000+ km range 🔹 ~40 kg warhead 🔹 ~200 kg total weight Built to be cost effective yet highly capable, MIZRAK is designed with advanced guidance and targeting systems, giving it a technological edge over many existing one-way attack drones like Shahed-136. Smarter targeting. Longer reach. Lower cost. Modern drone warfare just got more dangerous.

Normalisation of our relations with Russia can happen only if Russia will transform itself back to normality. Accountability for crimes & justice can help that transformation. @Europarl_EN plenary debate on ensuring accountability for Russia’s attacks against civilians in 🇺🇦⬇️

3, 2, 1, 0... La fusée Ariane 6 décolle avec 32 satellites à son bord. #franceinfo

⭕🇬🇧🇪🇺🇷🇺 UK Builds New Naval Alliance to Counter Russia in Europe’s North The United Kingdom is forming a unified maritime force with nine European nations under the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) to deter potential threats from Russia across the “open sea border” in Northern Europe. The coalition includes the Netherlands, all five Nordic countries, and the three Baltic states, with Britain as the largest military contributor. Canada is also considering joining. A new layer of defense. A stronger northern front. Source: The Guardian

Inside Chernobyl’s shadow community: what a nuclear disaster looks like 40 years on nationalgeographic.com/photography/ar… via @NatGeo

World Brief: Ukraine reopens its section of the Druzhba pipeline, Iranian forces fire on cargo ships in the Strait of Hormuz, and three African nations refuse to let Taiwan’s president fly through their airspace. foreignpolicy.com/2026/04/22/ukr…

Iranian state TV aired a video of the IRGC seizing container ships in the Strait of Hormuz. Iran said the ships were operating without permits and tampering with the navigation system reut.rs/4txTRg4

Former Secretary of State John Kerry: “If I were President Trump, I would be really concerned that he started out against foreign wars and for lowering the cost of living for average citizens in America and the exact opposite has happened.”

French 🇫🇷 Air Force Airbus A400M Atlas flew past Kangerlussuaq, Greenland 🇬🇱today. 🎥: Søren Hansen

Traffic through the Panama Canal has risen amid the war in the Middle East and blockade of the Strait of Hormuz. Canal authorities say Asia's refineries are choosing to buy oil or gas from the US instead of purchasing from Gulf countries that rely on the strait.

Video aired on Iranian state TV in the early hours of April 23 purportedly showed armed soldiers boarding two container ships in the Strait of Hormuz.

🇫🇮La Finlande étudie la construction d’une ligne ferroviaire reliant le pays au port norvégien de Narvik, via le nord de la Suède. L'objectif recherché est de sortir de la dépendance à la mer Baltique, jugée vulnérable en cas de crise avec la Russie, et ouvrir un accès direct à l’Atlantique. Concrètement, cela transformerait la Finlande, aujourd’hui quasi enclavée, en un hub logistique connecté au monde. Les enjeux sont donc à la fois militaires, économiques et géopolitiques. Militairement, cette « Nato-rail » permettrait de déplacer rapidement troupes et équipements vers le nord, notamment vers les zones d’entraînement comme Rovajärvi. Économiquement, elle ouvrirait une voie d’exportation massive pour les ressources du nord (mines, bois, acier) et attirerait des investissements étrangers, notamment américains, britanniques et canadiens. Et géopolitiquement, cela permettrait une meilleure intégration dans l'architecture de sécurité de l'OTAN. On n’est plus dans un simple débat d’aménagement du territoire mais dans une logique de sécurité stratégique dont le coût, environ 1,5 milliard d’euros, est présenté comme raisonnable au regard des bénéfices attendus. Cela confirme le positionnement intelligent de la Finlande en ce moment. Elle anticipe les menaces, elle adapte son territoire à un environnement de guerre possible et elle combine sécurité et développement économique. Quand en France et, plus largement, en Europe de l'Ouest, on a du mal à se représenter le changement d'ère, la Finlande, elle, est en plein dedans. Quel bonheur qu'ils nous aient rejoint dans l'OTAN ! 💪🇫🇮

Sanna Marin: NATO is a different organization now than it was when we and Sweden joined. Because of the changed relationship between the US and Europe. We cannot escape that. We need to focus on our own game. We cannot only rely on the US presence and capabilities anymore.

The price spikes we're seeing across the nation are directly attributable to Donald Trump. The surge in gas prices at the pump is because of his actions. This senseless war needs to end now.