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.
TLDR = Too long, Didn’t read ?
“I would fire missiles over the airspace of Lithuania. Curious to see how NATO would react.”
Why? Just to get a response? That’s openly and deliberately provocative.
What happens now.....sheesh.
Waddyathink?
Let me introduce the Russians to the The Royal Navy of Great Britain. They will be meeting ‘em real soon.
Where the f@#$ is Kaliningrad, anyway? I got a bad feeling.
Lithuania wouldn’t poke the (much) larger Russian bear without full backing from the Western elites. Why are the latter pushing for general or nuclear war? What is so important that they retain control of Ukraine?
No, I can predict what happens when the little smart-@ss in the locker room slaps the big guy in the face, and expects his big pals to save his bacon.
Apparently I see something entirely different than many other folks who are posting here.
I think Europe is threatening this or that in order to facilitate negotiations. If they were planning to start a war, they would do stuff in secret.
All of Europe is making an effort to do the threat thing to limit Russian imperialism. That is hard because Russia holds the cards because Europe has to have Russian gas and oil.
Europe thinks they may be able to simultaneously threaten to add Sweden and Finland to the list of Russian adversaries in NATO; threaten northern Russian exports through Kaliningrad; leave Russia in delicate negotiations with Turkey over grain shipments from Ukraine while Turkey also controls the sea route that allows commodity shipments from the Russian south.
I think the idea of all of this is to think of anything they can to let Europe manage a Russia problem with less involvement from the U.S. European diplomats think they can do this.
We are entitled to doubt it.
Anyhow, I don’t think this is an effort to start a war. From Europe’s perspective there already is one. This is an effort by Europe to come out on top without somebody shooting off nukes.
Actually to break NATO. No doubt some would want war and others would require caution. Unity would be weakened even more and their focus would shift from Ukraine. My next level of escalation would be to fire a nuclear capable weapon towards the U.K but I would let it drop in the ocean.
There is much truth to what you said.
Sorry. No chance. Lithuania is a NATO member. Article 5 says you gotta defend a NATO member who’s been attacked. This is problematic in the real world, of course.
“No, I can predict what happens when the little smart-@ss in the locker room slaps the big guy in the face, and expects his big pals to save his bacon.”
Slapping the big guy in the face is an act of physical aggression, which is something Lithuania has not done, nor has it threatened to do. In the instant case the only one talking smack is the big guy (Russia). So, instead of a little smart-ass starting a physical fight, it’s the big bully.
Enjoy your fantasy world.
And appropriate historical comparison. And one I hope does NOT end up happening.
Germany renounced all claims for Kalingrad in the Two Plus Four Treaty.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_on_the_Final_Settlement_with_Respect_to_Germany
“Actually to break NATO. No doubt some would want war and others would require caution. Unity would be weakened even more and their focus would shift from Ukraine. My next level of escalation would be to fire a nuclear capable weapon towards the U.K but I would let it drop in the ocean.”
Is that your desire? Or is it just what you think Russia should do?
The West know Russia’s weapons, and they’d know if a nuclear weapon — armed or not — is fired in their direction. You’re gambling that the West would not fire their own nukes in response, but would just sit back and wait to see what happened with Russia’s attack? Because that would be an attack, whether the weapon fell in the ocean or not.
Exactly, “NOT a blockade”
Russians have nukes there so this could get very interesting, send them a message, sink their Baltic fleet, lolololol
“Enjoy your fantasy world.”
Nice try, Sparky. I deal with reality. You, not so much.
Exactly. And Kalingrad has a huge port that Berlin didn’t.
“Russians have nukes there so this could get very interesting, send them a message, sink their Baltic fleet, lolololol.”
If war did start that is exactly what would happen. But that’s kind of putting the cart before the horse. Nothing martial is going to happen unless Russia starts it.
I have no sympathy for idiots that volunteer to get their faces ripped off for neocon warmongers, pard.
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