As pundits and Western officials speculated wildly this week on what the apparent exile of the Wagner Group and its chief Yevgeniy Prighozin to Belarus might mean, Germany announced it would move to base 4,000 troops -- an entire combat brigade -- in neighbouring Lithuania.
Monday's joint German-Lithuanian announcement -- the product of months of lobbying from Lithuania for the German-led Nato battle group in its country to be tripled permanently in strength -- was not directly linked to Wagner's weekend march on Moscow, widely viewed as an attempted coup.
