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Lithuania Bans Transit of Sanctioned Russian Goods to Kaliningrad

by nickreese on 6/19/22, 7:33 PM with 7 comments

• by nickreese on 6/19/22, 7:33 PM

  Not a huge geopolitics expert but seems like a major escalation.

• by jleyank on 6/19/22, 7:45 PM

  Nuke-armed rogue state. What not to like. The world seems to be recapitulating the 1930’s after doing the 1920’s. These didn’t turn out too well.

• by the_biot on 6/19/22, 8:09 PM

  I saw this video on the history of Kaliningrad the other day, quite well done: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2f9Zf-MDtU

  Russia has at various times tried to give away Kaliningrad to several countries, who refused it because... it's full of Russians, and Russia will inevitably invade whoever has native Russian speakers to "come to their rescue". It wasn't Putin that invented this, as it turns out.