Hawaiian political scientist Kuhio Vogeler has come to Lithuania to find out how the Baltic states’ example can help his islands gain independence from U.S. ‘occupation’, as he calls it.

Hawaii became the 50th state of the U.S. on August 21, 1959. According to Vogeler, they were occupied by the U.S. just like, as he believes, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania were illegally subsumed within the Soviet Union territorial borders after World War II. The scientist thinks that Lithuania’s experience of restoring the state system just confirms the fact that Hawaii was occupied and can now gain sovereignty, writes Delfi.lt

The 43-year-old wants to prove the fact of Hawaii occupation in his doctoral thesis and compare their history with that of the Baltic states.