Posted on 06/22/2022 7:22:39 AM PDT by SpeedyInTexas
Many of the items on the sanction list were passing through Lithuania and the EU told them to stop.
The EU council met last week and TOLD the Lithuanians to ban those items.
Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said his country was simply implementing sanctions imposed by the EU, of which it is a member. He said the measures implemented Saturday were taken after "consultation with the European Commission and under its guidelines."
"Sanctioned goods (will) no longer be allowed to transit Lithuanian territory," Landsbergis added.
Goods on the list include steel, but are set to be broadly expanded to cover items from coal to alcoholic drinks.
They are already fighting NATO in Ukraine. NATO trained Ukrainian troops and one of the largest armies in Europe.
Exactly. The whole series of "this is going to start WW3!!!" warnings every time the West stands up to Russia is pure Russian propaganda. As you point out, Russia is incapable of fighting an expanded war. Since they lack the ability to stop support from the West, they put out propaganda that it will start World War 3 hoping their sycophants will pick it up and put pressure on their governments to stop supporting Ukraine.
Russia is sitting there holding a pair of deuces, and wants us to believe they're holding a full house.
Really stupid and none of our business
I take it you do not live near a nuclear target or have any friends or family near one?
Or do you just have nothing to live for?
You think Russia has its hands “full” in a border country the size of Texas, when over decades they built a military faced with someday fighting both Europe and potentially a billion Chinese??
Are you an analyst in an alphabet agency?
No, merely someone so idiotically obsessed with opposing the US regime that you support America's foreign enemies.
So, as long as Poland and Lithuania only prohibit the use of their own territory for Russia to move supplies to Kaliningrad, that is not an act of war. If NATO were to blockade the actual port, that would be.
Provoking a nuclear armed nation by blockading their strategic port in violation of treaty obligations is unjustifiable no matter what Russia does in Ukraine.
Enjoy your war Neocon scum.
Russia lost WWI. Brest-Litovsk. And without Lend Lease the Soviets would still have been fighting deep inside the Soviet Union as Western forces entered Germany.
not totally blockaded ... Russia can still supply by water from St. Petersburg
so you can stop needlessly panicking and exaggerating
Lithuania is not a protectorate of Russia and nor does Russia have imperial rights of extra-territoriality or transit.
Maybe you should get your facts right before shilling for Moscow.
“Why do I have the notion that Lithuania is doing as told by the US?”
I don’t think Lithuania needs any extra motivation to oppose Russia, since Putin has already telegraphed that he wants to annex the Baltic states.
I was promised my nuclear apocalypse when I voted for "Ray-gun". I feel cheated.
Unlike the Ukrainians, the Russians can manufacture their own weapon systems. And I never bet on Russian deterrents failing.
NATO wants WW3. It needs to be disbanded immediately. Putin was 1000% right about them.
“Blockades are acts of war.”
Only if the enemy is willing to call it such and actually fight a war over it. For example, when we blockaded Cuba in the 60s, they weren’t foolish enough to go down that road.
They have been unable to produce more modern equipment, especially tanks, in significant quantities. The main advantage they have is in mass of artillery, which would be incredibly vulnerable two more modern, longer range NATO artillery, and to NATO airstrikes.
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