Latvia and Lithuania want to host nuclear weapons. Is this even possible? A Carnegie Politics analysis In September 2026, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevich said the country could host nuclear weapons. At the same time, in Lithuania, the authorities took real action: in October, the Seimas couple voted in favor of lifting the constitutional ban on laying down arms. Sergei Potapkin, a political scientist and researcher at the Latvian Institute of Foreign Policy, discusses what this could ultimately lead to in a text for Carnegie Politics. Medusa publishes this text in its entirety. Open a website Mirror | telegram.

Latvia and Lithuania want to host nuclear weapons. Is this even possible? A Carnegie Politics analysis In September 2026, Latvian President Edgars Rinkevich said the country could host nuclear weapons. At the same time, in Lithuania, the authorities took real action: in October, the Seimas couple voted in favor of lifting the constitutional ban on laying down arms. Sergei Potapkin, a political scientist and researcher at the Latvian Institute of Foreign Policy, discusses what this could ultimately lead to in a text for Carnegie Politics. Medusa publishes this text in its entirety. Open a website Mirror | telegram.