Sure, Russia became the largest land mass empire in the world by not invading anyone. Okay
Posted on 05/30/2025 10:43:12 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Lithuania's capital Vilnius on Wednesday presented an evacuation plan in case of war, as the NATO member revealed its anxieties that Russia could target it next after its invasion of Ukraine.
Lithuania, a NATO and EU member, has been a staunch ally of Ukraine since Vladimir Putin's 2022 invasion, and has since ramped up defence spending and training.
The three main evacuation routes run west, 'as the enemy has historically come from the east', Vilnius's Mayor Valdas Benkunskas said at a press conference.
'We do not want to cause panic,' he said. 'Our goal is clear: to have a plan, to have coordination between institutions, to know who is responsible for what, and to trust our defence forces... hoping that this plan will never need to be activated.'
The city aims to hold evacuation drills in the autumn.
Vilnius is just 20 miles from the border with Belarus, which Russia used as a springboard for its Ukraine invasion.
Lithuanian officials fear Moscow could repeat the scenario for any attack on the Baltic country.
In September, Russia and Belarus will hold the Zapad military drills, which in previous iterations drew tens of thousands of troops close to borders with Poland and the Baltic states.
Vilnius authorities have said the city of over 600,000 residents could be fully evacuated within 48 hours.
The evacuation plan is also a response to threats from natural disasters or incidents at the Ostrovets nuclear plant in Belarus.
Lithuanian authorities had previously staged decontamination drills and handed out iodide tablets to Vilnius residents in case of an incident at Ostrovets, a Russian-built facility about 50 kilometres from the capital.
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Wish them well.
I think I see the problem here.
One of the British MI6 Tabloids again.... nothing to read, no comment.
The amount of BS peddled in the UK press is astounding; they find a morsel of truth and whip people into a frenzy. The people who read can’t get enough, the only reinforcement for their entire worldview comes from propoganda, and the BBC which was sickening to have to watch in Tokyo, and The View or MSMBC.
If it comes from the UK Sun, this rag or the other from England, you know it is filled with hestria about Russia. Soon enough they will turn to Trump again; he never did get a honeymoon with the EU who only wants war.
Vilnius authorities have said the city of over 600,000 residents could be fully evacuated within 48 hours.
The evacuation plan is also a response to threats from natural disasters or incidents at the Ostrovets nuclear plant in Belarus.
There is their problem right there: They could be chased out with a little radiation and occupied by Russia in 48 hours. If I wans’nt thinking about it I certainly would be now. Time to occupy them with a scare.
Note to Lithuania.
Choose your enemies carefully.
Problem solved.
Countries invaded by the Russian Empire, the USSR, and the Russian Federation in the 20’th and 21’st centuries. 1905 - invasion of Japan 1914- invasion of Austria and Germany 1917 - invasion of Ukraine 1917 - invasion of Alash autonomy (modern Kazakhstan) 1918 - invasion of Finland 1918 - invasion of Latvia 1918 - invasion of Lithuania 1918 - invasion of Estonia 1918 - invasion of Georgia 1919 - invasion of Georgia 1920 - invasion of Azerbaijan 1921 - invasion of Georgia 1921 - invasion of Armenia 1924 - invasion of Romania 1925 - invasion of Afghanistan 1929 - invasion of China 1929 - invasion of Afghanistan 1932 - invasion of Empire of Japan 1937 - invasion of China 1939 - invasion of Poland 1939 - invasion of Finland 1940 - invasion of Latvia 1940 - invasion of Lithuania 1940 - invasion of Estonia 1940 - invasion of Bukovina 1941 - invasion of Iran 1945 - invasion of Denmark 1945 - invasion of Empire of Japan 1950 - Korean war 1955 - invasion of Vietnam 1956 - invasion of Hungary 1968 - invasion of Czechoslovakia 1970 - invasion of Israel 1974 - invasion of Eritrea 1975 - invasion of Angola 1977 - invasion of Somali 1979 - invasion of Afghanistan 1981 - invasion of Nicaragua 1991 - 1993 Georgia 1991 - 1993 Abkhazia 1992 - Transnistria/Moldova 1992 - East Prigorodny, Ossetia 1992 - 1997 Tajikistan 1994 - 1996 Chechnya 1999 - Dagestan 1999 - 2009, second war with Chechnya 2008 - Georgia/Osettia (again, 3rd time) 2009 - 2017, Caucasus/Dagestan/Chechnya 2014 - present, Ukraine 2015 - present, Syria 2018 - present, Central Africa 2022 - fourth invasion of Ukraine
Sure, Russia became the largest land mass empire in the world by not invading anyone. Okay
Dateline January 2027: Russia invades Europe, says ceasefire talks are possible soon. Europe passes new sanctions.
You don't seem intelligent enough to grasp that.
In fact, NATO expansionism and the globalists that control are much like the Soviets and they are, by far, the greatest danger to our and Western citizens.
‘ Leave Russia alone and it will leave you alone.’
lol. Wow.
Russia since the fall of the Soviet Union has been responding to out meddling in neighboring countries and NATO expansion to their borders.
We promised Russia no eastward expansion of NATO in the early '90s. Even Biden admitted expanding would be tolerated in 1997.
We fomented an illegal coup in Ukraine in 2014 that installed a puppet government hostile to Moscow and the ethnic Russian population in Ukraine, one that threatened Russia's access to its naval base in Crimea, one it had operated since before the US Constitution was written.
Stop deflecting attention away from NATO and globalist aggression that is the root cause of the war in Ukraine.
>> Leave Russia alone and it will leave you alone.
>> Problem solved.
Didn’t work for the Baltics in 1940, did it?
Didn’t work before during the time of the Russian Empire?
Poland found out.
What do you expect from a Russian bot?
Educate yourself
Kremlin deems Russia de jure and de facto legal successor to USSR
The Kremlin sees Russia as the legal successor of the Soviet Union de jure and de facto, Kremlin Spokesman Dmitry Peskov told journalists Monday when commenting on a dissenting opinion on the status of the Russian state voiced by a judge from the Russian Constitutional Court.
"This is the opinion of a judge from the Constitutional Court, according to practice such opinions are published. In this case we leave it without comment, and we hold that Russia is the legal successor of the Soviet Union de jure and de facto," Peskov emphasized.
https://tass.com/politics/1120939
Why do people keep falling for this claptrap? If Russia can’t beat Ukraine in 3 years, how are they going to attack and win against a NATO member with a seriously eroded army?
The stupidity is plain to see but I am sure the usual Ukraine trolls will show up to tell us Russia is taking over the world...
The Wilhelm Gustloff was a German luxury liner that was converted into a military transport ship during World War II. On January 30, 1945, while evacuating German refugees and military personnel from East Prussia, it was torpedoed by a Soviet submarine and sank, resulting in one of the deadliest maritime disasters in history, with an estimated 9,400 deaths.
Near the end of the war, Goya took part in Operation Hannibal, the evacuation of German military and civilian personnel from remaining pockets held by the Germans along the Baltic Sea. Loaded with thousands of refugees, the ship was sunk on 16 April 1945 by the Soviet submarine L-3. Most of the crew and passengers died in the sinking.
The sinking of Goya was one of the biggest single-incident maritime losses of life of the war, and one of the largest such losses in history, with just 183 survivors out of roughly 6,700 passengers and crew
>> Modern-day IS NOT THE SOVIET UNION.
Thankfully not, but the neo-Soviets look back to the days of Soviet domination with nostalgia and revanchism.
The only time Russia leaves you alone, is when its down on its knees, like in 1991 and begging for and gladly accepting US food aid.
The moment they raise their heads they start having dreams of an Empire and behaving like they have historically - expanding.
The only way to end Russian imperialism for good is to smash it into 10-20 constantly warring statelets and of course defang it nuclearly. May not be feasible or achieveable, but you will get more and more of the Bear behaving like a Bear if its allowed to nurse its wounds and rise from the ashes. Again and again.
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