Posted on 06/22/2022 10:06:16 AM PDT by UMCRevMom@aol.com
With tensions between Russia and Lithuania rapidly escalating over Lithuania’s trade blockade of Kaliningrad, an escalation looks worryingly likely. So, in this video, we’re going to be explaining Lithuania’s Kaliningrad embargo and where it could lead.
Germany is getting a taste, right now, with their good Canadian "chums" holding up their pipeline pumps, throttling the Deutschie natgas flow to 40 percent or less.
Guess those Gazprom storage facilities the Germans stole aren't getting filled up for the winter...
“Let the Europeans have their wars. They love them.”
That is utterly unfair! Have you forgotten about the great Vilnius insult of 1561? How soon you forget about the 7 brave knight Hussars with wings and lances... yes, their glory will always live in our hearts. And who will avenge the Grand Duchy of Lithuania’s loss of greater Ukraine? And even yet, you still insist this is NOT America’s business!
It’s almost like the 1300s never happened for you.
Shameful.
“They are restricting what enters and leaves their nation, which I thought nations were allowed to do.”
There is a written treaty addressing that. They are abrogating it. The other part of the treaty is that Russia recognized their independence.
Oh, the Potsdam Conference!
Isn’t that where 3 countries tried to determine the destinies of twice that many european countries?
Where Poland was ‘given to Stalin and Germany was divided into 4?
Lithuania isn’t blockading anything, the EU has set trade restrictions on certain shipments, Lithuania is following them.
Yes, since it belongs to Germany.
Be careful what you wish for.
Great then it's "Polish Corridor" Part Zwei.
No a ‘blockade’ means the same thing on land
It’s dumb for neocons to poke the bear.
I just listened to the DPA update and they suggested that first thing that would happen if Russia struck was that Turkey would withdraw from nato.(abt min8 to min9) If that happened i hope the US would withdraw too.this is stupid
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV8GbhSLWXM
> There is a written treaty addressing that. They are abrogating it. The other part of the treaty is that Russia recognized their independence.
1920? with Russia, or with the USSR (which most people seem to regard no longer exists)?
Maybe Germany should ask for all East Prussia too?
yeah but a lot of Americans are bored and have no way achieving greatness so they hope to be “part of something bigger” by pushing for conflict.
What Lithuania is doing is NOT a blockade. It is simply disallowing prohibited goods from crossing its territory. Non-prohibited goods can still traverse Lithuanian territory, and even the prohibited goods can still reach their destination via sea and air. What Lithuania is doing is not even remotely close to an act of war, which a REAL blockade could arguable be considered.
If war breaks out over this it is all on Russia that it came to pass.
The pro-Russia warmongers are trying to create a justification for Russia to attack a NATO member, as war between NATO and Russia very much seems to be what those warmongers desire.
You think you're kidding.
The obvious solution to the present crisis is to give the Polish-Lithuanian parts of Belarus and Ukraine back to Poland and Lithuania, to move Poland back to where it was before Stalin carved it up, and return Breslau, Danzig, and Königsberg to Germany.
This will let the West-facing Ukrainians in Lemberg/Lwow/Lviv all the globohomo they can stand and end the war.
Kaliningrad is a port city on the Baltic Sea.
This is like Canada “blockading” Alaska if the do not permit the U.S. to deliver certain goods from the U.S. mainland to Alaska over Canadian land.
This is not a real blockade.
> There is a written treaty addressing that. They are abrogating it. The other part of the treaty is that Russia recognized their independence.
aha, this (signed in 1991; cf. esp. art. 14)?
https://treaties.un.org/doc/Publication/UNTS/Volume%201787/volume-1787-I-31051-English.pdf
“now Kaliningrad will get to know how Berlin felt in 1948.”
Only, Kaliningrad is in a much better position.
Unlike Kaliningrad, Berlin was COMPLETELY cut off by land and water from ANY and ALL supplies. Kaliningrad still gets supplies and goods via ground route through Lithuania, with the exception of those prohibited by sanctions. Moreover, Kaliningrad has a sea port, and ALL supplies and goods can be shipped to Kaliningrad by sea, and likely by air. In Berlin in 1948 and 1949 the only means of getting supplies into Berlin was via air.
“I wonder if this is a device to entice Russia into making Lithuania maintenance free by paving the small country with radioactive glass.”
I bet that would send tingles up your leg, ala Chris Matthews.
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