Siege of…Kaliningrad?
June 20, 2022
This is Fucked Up. And Dangerous. Wildly Dangerous. Most Americans likely haven’t given a moment’s thought to Kaliningrad…perhaps never having heard of it. With good reason.
Kaliningrad is a small area of Russia with a population of roughly 500,000. It contains the Only Ice-Free Port of Russia and the Baltic States on the Baltic Sea. Which makes it Somewhat Special and Valuable.
Kaliningrad is also Unique. It became part of the Soviet Union in 1945 pursuant to the Potsdam Agreement. Kaliningrad is bordered by Poland to its South, Lithuania to its North and East…and the Baltic Sea to its West. In other words…Kaliningrad does not Share a Border…is not Physically Connected to…Russia. Other than by Sea or Air, one must travel through Poland or Lithuania to Reach Kaliningrad from Russia.
Which makes Lithuania’s announcement that They will No Longer Allow Russia to transport any Sanctioned Goods via Lithuania from Mainland Russia to Kaliningrad. Lithuania cites coordination with the European Commission to Enforce Sanctions Against Russia.
This is an Outright Attack on Russia. Isolating 500,000 Russians from their fellow Countrymen. Choking off their Access to Food, Energy etc., perhaps 50% of all goods. And while Russia may be able to improvise (to some extent) in warmer months via Sea from St. Petersburg, what the Fuck happens in Winter? Long-Term?
The US-MIC / NATO wants a World War…and seemingly will Do Anything to Get It. The Sanctions Continue to Harm the West. Russia is Adapting. Doing Anything and Everything they can to Protect Themselves and Avoid Direct Conflict with the West. So the West Keeps Pursuing Them. Prodding, Provoking…Trying to Back Putin into a Corner from Which He’ll Need to React.
Imagine the People of Alaska…Dependent Upon Mainland US to provide much of Life’s Necessities. Cut off from the Rest of the World…and then Canada says we Can’t Deliver Goods to those Americans via Land. Isolating Americans.
Russia…Russians…Know Their History. Unlike Americans, Russians Have Experienced and Remember…Wars on Their Land. Tens of Millions of Lives Lost. Savagery…of Their Attackers…and Their Own Leaders at Times.
Russians are Under No Illusions. They Know Better. Than to Accept False Narratives of Good Countries vs Bad Countries. Of People’s Values, Intents Being Defined by Who They Are, Their Citizenship, Rather Than What They Do. Russians Know This. Because They Learned It. The Hard Way.
It Would be a Shame. A Tragedy. Of Historic Proportions. If We. America and Much of the Western World. Choose to Pretend. Choose to Pretend that the Narrative is Real. And Reality Not.
That The People Who Lied about WMD’s in Iraq to Bring Us to War…Killing Millions. Are the Good Guys. That The People Who Turned Libya, then Africa’s Wealthiest Country, into an Open-Air Slave-Market-Filled Hellscape…are the Good Guys. That The People Who Raided the Public Coffers and Destroyed What Remained of Our Free Markets to Avoid Taking Their Losses…and Going to Jail…are the Good Guys.
That The People Who Armed and Supported ISIS, Al-Qaeda…to Overthrow a Democratically-Elected President, Throwing Syria Into Years of Chaos, Death and Destruction…to Facilitate a Planned Pipeline…are the Good Guys. That The People Who Engineered the Violent Overthrow of Ukraine’s Democratically Elected President with the Help of Ukrainian Nazi’s and Foreign Mercenaries…are the Good Guys.
That The People Who Repackaged Flu and Common Cold as a Deadly New Virus…and Mandated “Public Health” Measures such as…Forced Closures of Small Businesses, Forced Isolation, Forced Mask Wearing, Forced School Closures, Forced Injections with Toxic Gene Therapies…are the Good Guys.
That The People Debasing Our Currency, Siphoning Wealth Upwards…The People Manufacturing Food and Energy Shortages…Orchestrating Misery for Hundreds of Millions…Famine and Horror for Millions More…are the Good Guys.
That The People to Whom Epstein, Maxwell et al Trafficked Young Girls…are the Good Guys.
Let’s Hope Putin Has Another Trick Up His Sleeve. To Protect the People of Kaliningrad. Without Being Baited into World War 3.
June 20, 2022
That is right on! Americans have no idea what Russia has suffered over the centuries and that we actually sent troops into the country during the revolution, but I guarantee you that all Russian children know this. This country started as an isolationist, self-supporting and no foreign entanglements. The founders stated this plainly. Washington spelled it out in no uncertain terms, but the empirical elements couldn't conceive of not being an empire and so the other America won out over the sensible America and now we are a failing empire. The destruction we perpetrated in other countries we now bring home to our own.