The Duran discussed this issue last week and the lawyer made an interesting point. He says that this transit privilege was given by treaty between the Russians and the Lithuanians and that Lithuania was given additional territory in the agreement.
So, if Lithuania is abrogating the treaty doesn’t that mean the territory they received as compensation goes back to Russia.
I have no idea about how valid those treaty points are.
I haven't had time to watch The Duran, but I'm keeping up with both Alex and Alexander [the lawyer] daily.
I like the walks around Greece that Alex takes us on.
Russia is attempting to arbitrarily revoke its recognition of Lithuanian independence from the Soviet Union. Which ceased to exist in 1991.
Thanks to it, along with Belarus and Ukraine, petitioning the UN to be recognised as, er, sovereign independent states because, duh, the USSR didn’t exist anymore.
Irony is, if Russia passes that legislation it will be effectively setting the precedent that Lithuania is the last remaining country in the USSR.
Which would mean it is entitled to the USSR’s seat on the UN security council - a seat Russia and Ukraine and Belarus can only lay claim to because they assert the USSR doesn’t still exist.
Not only is Lithuania entitled to retaliate against Russian bullying by imposing limited sanctions, it’s potentially entitled to go to the UN, drag Russia out of its UNSC seat if tge Duma is dumb enough to say that the USSR still exists... And Lithuania is it.
By the way: Lithuanian land “blockade” is no different to Russia’s sea blockade of Ukraine.
In both cases the “aggressors” point out there are loads of ways to move the goods that aren’t blockaded.
If Russia wants to argue that the blockade of Kaliningrad is tantamount to a declaration of war against the nation that can’t send or receive goods, then by its own logic the “special military operation” is a declaration of war on any nation whose grain is being blockaded by Russia.
How’d you like them apples?