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Lucas Leiroz, researcher in Social Sciences at the Rural Federal University of Rio de Janeiro; geopolitical consultant.
European authorities are stopping the transit Russian goods in the Kaliningrad region, which is officially a part of the Russian territory. Such a measure tends to significantly increase tensions on the European continent and contribute negatively at a time of major concerns about international peace and security.
On June 18, the governor of Kaliningrad Anton Alikhanov reported to media agencies that the Lithuanian state-owned company “Lithuania Railways” has banned the rail transport in the Russia’s Kaliningrad territory regarding all sanctioned goods, entirely isolating the Russian exclave in Europe. Apparently, the reason for such a radical measure would have been the international pressure exerted by the rest of Europe for Lithuania to comply with the “EU’s restrictions”.
Commenting on the case, Lithuanian Foreign Minister Gabrielius Landsbergis said that “this is not a Lithuanian decision. These are European sanctions that came into force on June 17, and the railways are now applying the sanctions”.
EU foreign policy chief Josep Borrell confirmed the Lithuanian minister’s words and tried to “defuse” the situation, saying that there is no blockade, as only goods that have received sanctions are being barred from transit:
“There is no blockade. The land transit between Kaliningrad and other parts of Russia has not been banned. Second, transit of people and goods that are not sanctioned continues. Third, Lithuania has not taken any unilateral national restrictions. (…) We are in a precautionary mood. We will double-check the legal aspects in order to verify that we are completely aligned with any kind of rule. (…) But Lithuania is not guilty. It is not implementing national sanctions. It is not implementing their will. Whatever they are doing has been the consequence of previous consultation with the commission, which has provided guidelines”.
What seems unacceptable, however, is the fact that such pressure is aimed at blocking the transit of products inside the Russian sovereign space, preventing them from leaving Kaliningrad and reaching the rest of Russian territory. No country has the right to prevent another from transporting its goods to other parts of its own territory. In this case, it is not just about “sanctions against Russia”, but about an illegal attitude that violates all elementary norms and principles of public international law.
Stating that there is simply “no blockade” as the restrictions are only being applied to sanctioned products sounds also totally inappropriate. In addition to obstructing Russian intra-territorial traffic, the products sanctioned by the West are precisely those of greater strategic value, which directly affect Moscow’s national interests. Kaliningrad is undoubtedly isolated at this time and the consequences of this isolation strongly affect both the rest of the Russian territory and the one million Russian citizens who inhabit the exclave.
The Russian government expressed its concern about the case, as can be seen in the words of Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov: “This decision is truly unprecedented. It is a violation of everything. We understand it to be connected to the relevant decision made by the European Union – to extend sanctions to transit. We also consider it illegal (…) We need a serious, in-depth analysis to work out our response decisions”.
In the same vein, Minister of Foreign Affairs Sergey Lavrov made it clear that Moscow reserves the right to respond to illegal attitudes on the part of the Lithuanian State, stating that Russia will defend its interests in the face of the European attempt to prevent the transit of goods between Kaliningrad and the rest of the national territory.
“If the transit of goods between Kaliningrad and the rest of the territory of the Russian Federation through Lithuania is not fully restored soon, then Russia reserves the right to take measures in defense of its national interests”, he said.
It is also necessary to remember that Western think tanks have long suggested that NATO “seize” Kaliningrad. The matter has come to light more recently, after the start of the special military operation in Ukraine, with US and European experts suggesting this type of attitude to be considered as a response to a possible escalation of tensions. Obviously, the current blockade further intensifies Moscow’s concerns about this possible scenario.
There are two possible scenarios for the near future in the face of this new escalation of the European security crisis: either Lithuania immediately breaks the blockade or Russia will respond in some way, probably through the intensification of military naval activities using the Baltic Fleet. Vilnius must act in some way, either sovereignly, refusing to comply with abusive and hostile EU impositions or through diplomatic mediation with the rest of the bloc so that sanctions are eased so that the end of the rail blockade is achieved.
The Russian terrorist state is now threatening the people of Lithuania. Why is it that the Putin cockroaches are always threating the small countries. They’re so shameless they don’t even care that the entire world sees Vladimir Putin as a deranged coward. Just like Adolf Hitler.
Hey moron..you have that backwards. It is your american masters who like to invade smaller countries under false pretexts.
If Lithuania (another vassal state of the USA) is dumb enough to put itself into a position that illegally blocks the flow of goods between 2 Russian regions, they are now a legitimate target. Allthough I’m pretty sure, that your low IQ levels and brain capacity does not allow you to fully understand this situation.
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Lituania can do whatever it wants without having a deranged terrorist Russian government threatening it. That’s how it works. Your deranged terrorist president clown in a karate outfit is the definition of a coward.
Lithuania is bound by a Treaty it signed on transit so it cant do what it wants.
Russia can sue them internationally and probably win, years from now. For right now, it can cut-off all trade and communication with Lithuania and expel their representative and recall theirs.
Nukes will be much faster.
That must be why Russian media said the war in Ukraine will inevitably lead to World War 3 and a nuclear apocalypse.
“But we will go to heaven!” said the TV presenter. I shit you not!
They also discussed plans to Poland, Sweden and the Baltic region. According to Ria Novosti, “denazification” entails banning Ukrainian nationality and essentially imprisoning then murdering anyone who opposes forced neo-Marxist reeducation of the population.
The Russian government official stated they want to “denazify” (i.e. invade and genocide) Poland as well, not to mention the Russian air force bombed Ukraine’s nuclear power plants and occupied Chernobyl from the without protection from radiation from the time of the invasion, until they were forced to withdraw from all of northern Ukraine. Those soldiers surely got cancer and will now surely die in agony. If you thought the West were Satanic, Russia is not far off.
After all, the sickle on the Communist flags they waved during their invasion of Ukraine is representative of the Greek Titan Kronos castrating his father Uranus and usurping his throne. This was historically symbolic of the Jews overturning civilization through all manifestations of Marxian ideology entirely financed by big Capitalist interests. Whilst this may seem like a contradiction, the true purpose of Marxism is to destabilize and conquer; it is not the final objective.
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“B-b-but Lithuania is trying to provoke war!”
Russian state TV discusses how Putin could invade NATO Baltic states and force Sweden to declare neutrality https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10619805/Russian-state-TV-discusses-Putin-invade-NATO-Baltic-states.html
– Russian state TV discussed how an invasion of the Baltic states might look, with a retired army colonel outlining the plan on TV channel Rossiya 1
– It showed Russian forces pushing up from Kaliningrad and closing the Suwalki corridor separating Poland and Lithuania, blocking NATO reinforcements
– The Swedish island of Gotland was also circled in red, video footage shows
– The Nordic island, part of Sweden, has a population of around 58,595
– Nato countries Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia appeared in the invasion plans
– Sweden is politically neutral but has been threatened by Russia against NATO membership following Vladimir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine on February 24
The Daily Fooking Mail? Now you’re really Jack-ingOff a whole tripe of nonsense,
STFU. Who cares about Russia. Go fish. Eat your own nukes, who knows they can be tasty and pls build more. Those nukes will increase your living standards. Why having schools, hospitals, good roads when you can build more and more nukes? And more palaces for putin & co. Retards.
Stalingrad is a Commie Gulag and should be blocked. Send in Vasilly Zaitsev with his Dragonov.
what you been smoking
Forget it,just send mi6 neo-libby drag queens to lativan concentration camp,FIXED! fek the eu/usa blok libbaspastic weaklings,what they can do?crimea river once again!
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If the Iranian politicians were ruling Russia…..surely there are would be no Block of kaliningrad….I remember what happened with British, Greek, South korea petrol vessels in response to the capture of Iranian vessels and Freeze of funds in Korea…
Lithuania is not only a USA vassal colony, iy’s also a EU vassal colony. As most EU countries also insidr NATO, it’s proudly a double vassal colony.
“Lithuania is (…) not implementing their will”
This lack of sovereignty is ridiculous. As Putin said, a country is either severeign, or a colony.
Fortunately for the World, Russia has been patient, and escalating only in response to attacks from other, and only in proportional ways. So, the result of this will be Russia blockading all that’s left of trade with Lithuania, and not a military response. Even though this could be see as casus belli if it happened to a Western country leaded by a lunatic. Like Biden, Boris, or Scholz.
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He is not ridiculous, he’ s only an idiot.
I have the friendly solution to both of you — “prophet” is ridiculous idiot. Don’t argue, guys.
No, in here he is **the** idiot.
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Somebody about to get hurt real bad
They’re about to get hurt real bad anyway as soon as winter sets in in December. I would ignore these provocations and just commit firmly to cutting them off Russia’s non-renewable resources. Over the long term these are only going to get more valuable.
I wish Russia would open another front with Lithuania. Better use those bombs in Europe than the Middle East or North Africa. May Russia get bogged down in Ukraine for ten years or more. It looks like another quacgmire for the Kremlin. Weapons and fighters keep pouring into Ukraine. At some point, Zelensky’s soldiers will discover a trick that works against Russian forces, possibly helped by the CIA. That’s when hundreds of body bags will be flown to Putin’s palace on a daily basis. Good payback for Syrians murdered. Russia is being called to account faster than I expected.
let’s hope the muricans will start dying like flies at the hand of the brave arab warriors
killing the sons of satan is the duty of every man of faith
You seem confused. Russia had saved Syria from the US supported ISIS terrorists (your role models). Now slap yourself in the face and STFU…this one is way over your head..
Is the EU so desperate that they are willing to go to war over ukraine, lets be honest here, the world is silent in yemen and afghanistan, yet ukraine is the gem of all attention, Russia did the world a favor in defeating isil in syria with the saa, yet it is soo fukd that only 30pct of us in the weat recognize this, the eu is being a puppt, letting the dogs of war fall into a no going back situation, it is summer now so they dont care. When winter arrives they will beg russia and i hope that the Russian Federation will deny them heating for there homes, they deserve to suffer like they have made every1 else.
It’s despicable what Americans, NATO and EU are doing, but better to not get into a war with this scum. Use water lanes to get product to and from Russia. Keep pushing in Ukraine and wiser to avoid a bigger war.
EU and America can roast in their inflation. Already, populations of EU are protesting higher prices and Macron’s party lost influence with latest French election.
Stay calm, stay positive, and enjoy the show.
Ukraine is a prize, simply because firstly the EU set its eyes on it – rich farmland for the Germans to do a Bulgaria 2, decimation of industrial base to be replaced by western product, wider western market access once local competition destroyed, a nice size consumer market (was 44 million). Then secondly it meets EU imperial ambitions, to expand to take on another ’empire’. Then finally its Russia and there is historic ill feeling and manipulated feeling wound up in jealousy and serving the new western empire. It will be interesting to see what Russia does in these circumstances and who knows the Russians are not really understandable in terms of strategy. I doubt it will be war, for whilst EU is unprepared and Russia could make serious inroads, it would be a diversion from the current thrust and direction. Russia has shown itself to be highly focused, and I can’t see that changing. I expect something a bit asymmetrical and different. Will we see how big a diplomatic bag can be! Will be see sea routes closed to European shipping, will we see armed revolution in the Baltics with well supplied Russian weapons as they fight for freedom from Baltic Nazis…. Let’s stay tuned and see!
No, they will never go to war. But they lost all and now they are looking for some leverage, because they fear Russia will cut them off from gas supplies and they are not ready to go into the winter season that way. People will seriously freeze and probably take it to the streets. That’s all. A military standoff would be the end of EU and NATO at the same time. No-one in their right mind will go to war with Russia after they all saw how little Ukraine could achieve during the ongoing Russian military operation. A real war with Russia would only take hours. After that the enemy would most certainly surrender.
hey southfront, there is the sea also!!
Kaliningrad is not isolated at all, in fact there 6 ferries that are working 24/24 to transport people and goods to/from Kaliningrad and Saint Petersburg
That is not the point. EU is breaking international laws and contracts. Again.
Russia may as well just flatten the Baltic states as well as Poland … war with them is inevitable … the fact is that 80 years of peace between these states and Russia is a historic anomoly. Most of Prussia now resides within the borders of Poland and Lithuania and the Galacians are orphand of the Austro-hungarian empire and were used by the Germans as terrorists against the Soviets from 1922 to 1941 … then they fought for the Germans as Waffen SS and Trawniki men doing the dirty work in the death camps.
They’ve been fighting and killing each other, launching wars, pogroms and ethnic cleansing on each other throughout recorded history.
I’m fed up with this … I don’t want to see another world war but fuck it … Call their bluff Russia
about a year ago Russia built an LNG terminal in anticipation of this
Another step closer to a direct Nato – Russia war.
To look at the quality of equipment, they provide, it’s a lost cause, for Nato.
The quality of Nato equipment is quite good actually, there’s just not enough of it. Ukraine is still mostly relying on Soviet-era junk.
They love to poke the big ass BEAR!!! which only needs it’s little finger to smash Lithuania!
That bear will start ass raping some of those morons before long.
Are we heading towrads a remake of the Danzig corridor story ? It is no more Poland but Lithuania. Lithuania should remember how it ended for Poland.
You should remember that one’s pushing for Gdańsk’s corridor lost.
When all this is over, these euro trash countries are gonna beg for “things to get back to normal”. Hope the Russians move on with creating new alliances and just screw Europe for good. Hungary and Serbia being exceptions. When have they ever tried to get along with rather than dominate Russia?
Oh they’ll pay big for this, insolent Pups!
the Lithuanians will do whatever their American masters tell them to do, including becoming the next junkyard for American and British war material so the US can wave the flag and get more people killed to justify the expense. the future of Europe lies in the east, not on another continent
The Lithuanians obviously have a future in that junkyard. What are they going to do, when Europe collapse. With a deeply hurting Germany, next winter, who’s going to pay for the nullities of the European Union.
Russia… Coming from the son of a Navy Veteran who is turning in his grave seeing THIS https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/us-navy-releases-bizarre-training-video-urging-recruits-create-pronoun-safe-space
You have absolutely nothing to be concerned with in the “mop up” of Ukraine and “elsewhere in your neighborhood”!…
One of fellow SF readers told me that i’m using the word “faggot” in every topic. 1) I don’t do it every time, this is much less. 2) What should I say looking at this perverted madness? False political tolerance is not the option for me.
That the United States of America went off it’s rocker decades ago and that Washington needs to be turned into the largest open air parking lot preferably by it’s own denizens before Russia is forced to do it FOR THEM!…
I am neither PC nor Woke Ahton I can “live & let live ” but I don’t believe in artificiality –George Soros started all this but wont implement it in his religious culture country–Israel–why ?
Soros wants all that crap for us, the goys.
Won’t implement in Israel, are you joking? Tel-Aviv got the prize of the year as the most comfortable place to perverts more times than New York. Search the photos/videos of large masses of people clashing in the place where two radial streets ending in one square. One street is filled with hasids (orthodox judeans), another street is filled with perverts and police between two human rivers. Orthodox people tries to kick perverts every year, but police doesn’t allow this. Their society is deeply divided. There is another big layer — agnostic/atheist citizens mostly of USSR origin, they dislike perverts and orthodox judeans in the same time. There were attempts to take tax privileges off hasidic community and make their sons to serve in military. As you know, they are recruiting girls due to lack of servicemen. Hasids protested against this and some individuals got beaten by police. It’s small, but very complicated society.
Solution is easy, Lithuania should give a line of 10 to 15 km width corridor, that will belong to russia and connect russia with kaliningrad, there are other country that should do the same. Also Europe should pay a compensation for their actions that pay for all construction need in this area.
Die Nato will unbedingt Krieg mit Russland um die Ukro Nationalisten zu entlasten. Daher diese Sanktionsaktivitäten und Provokationen. Putin muss cool bleiben, bei den kleinen Wadenbeißern…. Knurren reicht evtl.
Wenn NATO Krieg wöllte, hätte sie diesen schon viel einfacher haben können. Das ist völliger Quatsch. Die Vollpfosten in Berlin haben eine Riesenangst ohne Gas dazustehen, da sie den Bogen deutlich überdehnt haben. Sie suchen sich einen Hebel um Russland zu erpressen. Nun haben sie diesen anscheinend gefunden. Man wird es sehen. Bei den Sanktionen hat die gesamte EU wahrlich in die Sch**e gegriffen. Die Energie-intensive deutsche Industrie steht vor dem Abgrund. Die sind jetzt schon im A**ch. Bei den heutigen Gaspreisen machen viele dicht. Das kann sich auf Dauer keiner leisten. Die Bevölkerung trifft es dann im kommenden Winter. Die Nachzahlungen der Wohn-Nebenkosten werden gigantisch sein. 50 Jahre war alles gut. Nun haben die Faschisten in der EU alles zertrümmert. Am Ende werden sie alle opfern und trotzdem nicht gewinnen. Ich hoffe nur die USA wird mit taktischen Waffen von der Erdfläche verbannt. Diese Verbrecher haben 70 Jahre lang die ganze Welt terrorisiert und million Menschen durch sinnlose Kriege ermordet. Das alles endete nun am 24. Februar 2022. Damit haben die Psychopathen in den USA ihren Untergang besiegelt.
“Die Nato”
Agree.
So the train also has to go through either Latvia or Belarus…What are those 2 saying?
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Latvia is silent, Belorussia is agree to any transit.
The Lithuanian admin is affectively declaring war on Russia, for america’s sake. Lots of luck with that. Maybe Lithuania and Ukraine can form a ex US/nato self help group for all those who have ruined their lives and country by being stupid enough to listen to the USadmin and nato?
It’s not war, but they break agreements, like they always do. EU is frightened to loose gas supplies from Russia (they are too stubborn to admit, that they need Russia more than Russia needs them). They need some leverage. Now they use that as leverage.
You don’t hold someone hostage and use that as leverage. NATO never give a fuck about honoring agreements as they are outlaws.
Just a nuissance. Use the seaport for now.
Test firing a couple of Iskander SRBM’s into the Baltic Sea might concentrate the Vilnius-Nato Axis political mindset.
Not likely. But cutting them off from cheap Russian energy should do the trick. Lithuania imports around 80% of their electric energy from abroad.
The political lackeys of these shit hole Euro-fascist states are hellbent upon servicing the U.S. like the filthy rent-boys that they all are, so no, I’d send an ICBM with inert warheads targeting the capitals of them all, just to remind them what really happens in nuclear wars where they serve a hostile nuclear powers interests (i.e Anglo-America) against the existential security of the Russian Federation.
the special operation in ukraine was most likely triggered by the political unrest in belarus… thus, any action against kalinigrad can easily end up in a nuclear war…
Two can play at the regime destabilization game. Russia can begin supporting opposition parties and more. The balance of power cart has been overturned. The Special operation is just phase 1 of long term change
During the break-up, Russia should have negotiated a binding agreement that kept the railways open. I suspect they thought they had but obviously once NATO got Lithuania, all bets were off. It sounds like it’s time for Russia to get their cargo ships ginned up and cut off all association with Lithuania, along with expelling all their representatives.
Kaliningrad should be taken and split between Lithuania and Poland. Fuck Russia!
that’s a good idea, the people of kaliningrad would love it. it was always better to live on the western side of the fence. young people dont remember for example how it was to go to the hospital prior to 1989 in russia, was like 12 century medicine. you couldn’t even get painrelievers or insulin. and the food was disgusting and very often rotten and not healthy. those times coming again, very sad
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Russians should only blame themselves for giving independence to these shitty Mickey Mouse ‘countries’ (including Ukraine). When 11 (13) Southern states tried to secede from the US Lincoln burned them to the ground and occupied them forever. He is still celebrated as the greatest American president. While Gorbachev is not even arrested for treason.