Russia Ukraine war, page-12206

"if Russia attacks Lithuania tomorrow it will be because they were 'provoked'."

It is an indisputable fact that NATO expansions and US/NATO wars are aggressive and provocative.
The expansion of NATO onto Russia's border was a deliberate and conscious provocation, as understood by many experienced US diplomats and strategists and think tanks and the Russians themselves who all urged NATO not to do it.

And warned about the dangerous consequences which are now unfolding before our eyes.
(Unless you blinded by NATO war propaganda as you are.)