Posted on 06/28/2022 9:19:29 AM PDT by SoConPubbie
Lithuania under ‘major attack’ from Russia after refusal to lift block of sanctioned goods
RUSSIA has launched a major cyber attack on Lithuania following its refusal to stop blocking goods from transiting to the enclave of Kaliningrad.
By JACOB PAUL
10:28, Tue, Jun 28, 2022 | UPDATED: 13:00, Tue, Jun 28, 2022
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NATO ‘will do nothing’ if Lithuania invaded says Honcharuk
The Russian hacker group called Killnet said it will continue its major cyber attack on Lithuania as a direct response to Vilnius’ decision to block the transit of some goods to Kaliningrad. The group claims it has already cut off 70 percent of Lithuanian internet infrastructure from the rest of the web, which it says took just 39 hours. The group tweeted: “At the moment, Lithuania is in sadder conditions than Kaliningrad. And we keep our promise!”
(There is no logical reason for the two to be in conflict. All conflict between the two are artificially created by bad actors with nefarious purposes. It’s amazing how many people dance to the tune of these globalist warmongers.)
But, but, but Russia hacked Hillary and that’s how she lost and that’s What Really Happened (TM).
Putin is on his death bed.
Maybe a few more months if not weeks to live (cancer).
He despises humanity.
He is a deranged megalomaniac.
It would only be logical he launch nukes to bring about Armageddon.
Yeah, kinda. Russia signed a treaty with them. Rail access easement in return for recognition of independence.
So it isn’t about “is there another way”.
Incidentally, this is the same rail network that Russia let us use to supply our effort in Afghanistan. Nothing like being an ingrate.
More Russian propaganda! F the murderering bastards.
The Causes and Consequences of the Ukraine Crisis
The war in Ukraine is a multi-dimensional disaster, which is likely to get much worse in the foreseeable future.
by John J. Mearsheimer / June 23
[This speech was given at the European University Institute (EUI) in Florence on Thursday, June 16.]
[This transcribed speech will be considered one of the most important treatises on the Russo-Ukraine war in coming years and decades. Every statement will be studied and debated. I urge folks on all sides to read it in its entirety. I’m only posting the concluding paragraphs here due to space and brevity considerations.]
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/causes-and-consequences-ukraine-crisis-203182
Conclusion:
Simply put, the ongoing conflict in Ukraine is a colossal disaster, which as I noted at the start of my talk, will lead people all around the world to search for its causes. Those who believe in facts and logic will quickly discover that the United States and its allies are mainly responsible for this train wreck. The April 2008 decision to bring Ukraine and Georgia into NATO was destined to lead to conflict with Russia.
The Bush administration was the principal architect of that fateful choice, but the Obama, Trump, and Biden administrations have doubled down on that policy at every turn and America’s allies have dutifully followed Washington’s lead. Even though Russian leaders made it perfectly clear that bringing Ukraine into NATO would be crossing “the brightest of red lines,” the United States refused to accommodate Russia’s deepest security concerns and instead moved relentlessly to make Ukraine a Western bulwark on Russia’s border.
The tragic truth is that if the West had not pursued NATO expansion into Ukraine, it is unlikely there would be a war in Ukraine today and Crimea would still be part of Ukraine. In essence, Washington played the central role in leading Ukraine down the path to destruction. History will judge the United States and its allies harshly for their remarkably foolish policy on Ukraine. Thank you.
/ / /
John J. Mearsheimer is the R. Wendell Harrison Distinguished Service Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. His many books include The Great Delusion: Liberal Dreams and International Realities and The Tragedy of Great Power Politics.
In June 1980, the year of USSR’s Afghanistan invasion and our boycott of the Moscow Olympics, my small military unit took the train from West Germany through East Germany to West Berlin.
No problem. The Soviet’s honored their treaty to grant access to West Berlin.
And anybody who thinks Lithuania dreamed this up on their own...is a naïve fool.
At least the Russians know who is running their country.
Even if you accept that the 2020 election was legit (and I don't), pray tell, who is actually calling the shots in America in 2022?
Can you answer that single simple question? I'll wait.
If you think our current regime supports freedom you might need to consider rehab
Always gotta be nasty, don’t you keyboard heroes? A lot of countries don’t believe in freedom. In fact most don’t. Should we be at war with all of those too, cretin?
be careful, if you apply too much common sense the keyboard warriors for the WEF contingent here will be calling you all sorts of stuff shortly.
that probably predates the idiocy and hubris present in our government by a bit.
Lol. Unlike those cretins I have actually fought Russia’s clients in my youth. With real weapons. So those basement heroes can all KMA.
But also Russia has made noise threatening Lithuania. And let’s remember how the Crimea invasion went. Not really much a reason for Lithuania to let Russia use their rail line to sneak troops in. Let Russia prove their trustworthy.
Interesting about the Berlin rail link.
And not to mention that this is the SAME rail network the Russians let us use to supply the former Soviet airbases they let us use to support the effort in Afghanistan. After 09/11 Putin was the first to call and offer support. Not just prayers and well wishes, but free use of their southern air bases. No contract negotiations etc, just an open invitation.
People forget that.
Sounds like all those gang rapes where women mercilessly goad the guys into grabbing them, ripping their clothes off and penetrating them, all because those women dared to remove their veils. Poor men were powerless against such womanly lures!
Washington DC would be a very nice prime target...
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