Couldn’t Russia ship the stuff thru the Baltics? It wasn’t a military
blockade.
Haven’t read in to this much but the full Russia blockade is being run through the US/EU. All Russia had to do was wait until the EU was desperate enough because they’re not getting anything anywhere else. Remember when Trump gave them hell? Still applies. Russia owns the EU. They can scream all they want but they’ll still but Russian energy and goods.
logistics. huge shipping requirement vs. fairly simple rail.
not that treaties matter anymore, but lithuania did have a ratified on with russia on this very subject.
there may be factions within nato and the EU not on the same page on this. lithuania wouldn’t do this on their own, and I assume the US pushed it, and germany/france nixed it.