Lithuania just started blockading the Kaliningrad Region, a russian enclave between Lithuania and Poland, citing “EU sanctions”. Now no trains or trucks carrying commercial goods are allowed to go to Kaliningrad Region from Mainland Russia. Russia warned Lithuania of “serious consequences” if they continued this, saying that their response “will have a serious negative impact on the lithuanian people”. Shits getting real.

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    It’s time to call NATO’s Article 5 bluff. Russia should send in its trains toward Kaliningrad and send soldiers with them for protection. If Lithuania dares to try anything to stop the convoy Lithuania can be made an example of and the other two Baltic chihuahuas will quickly quiet down. The global south will understand, as what Lithuania doing is an illegal breach of international treaties and Russia has the right to protect its Kalinigrad territory from hostile blockade attempts.

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      As much as i would love to see the nazi Baltic States bombed off the map, i think this isnt the time to be warmongering. Nuclear war is a serious threat. Russia will surely find a correct response to this, but i think we shouldnt call for war. If the decision has to be made, Russia will make it.

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        I really dont want to have an nuclear war over fucking lithuania being a little shit.

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      I think Russia has to commit at this point yea

      The West is throwing Lithuania at China and Russia and if China has pushed back, Russia will have to too or it wouldn’t make sense to invade Ukraine but let such a pathetic little country blockade you

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        Yep. China will certainly not mind seeing the Lithuanians get put in their place, they’ve been acting very rudely lately.

        All that Russia needs to do is lay out a proper legal case, cross its t’s and dot its i’s to make it rock solid according to intl. law.

        The Americans and Europeans will lose their collective minds and there will be talk of NATO intervention, but ultimately the big players who can actually do anything about it will chicken out and it will further undermine NATO unity and expose it for the paper tiger that it is. Poland are the only ones crazy enough to actually try to intervene, and when they do they will get a thorough spanking and be sent running with their tail between their legs back to their own borders. Besides, most of Europe’s military stocks are depleted anyway, all blown up in Ukraine.

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            Poland was literally runned over by an army of tanks, collapsed on 1 month, trusted the fr*nch to protect their borders (big rookie mistake), now they are wanting to repeat history?

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              Tbf it doesn’t matter about Polands capability but rather that they’re now part of NATO

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              Next time please blur more words in f*****, thanks 🙏

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          Yeah, Pooland is the only one so deranged in mind by their Russophobia that they will literally kill themselves trying to do whatever they want to do.

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        but let such a pathetic little country blockade you

        That country has US nukes behind them. That is the main (albeit not sole) reason they act as bold as they do. Methinks it’s intentional too. If you’ll excuse Reddit tier analogy, this is akin to street gangs sending the youngest and scrawniest member to harass a mark, before ganging up on them “in self defense”.

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        I missed this, what has Lithuania been doing to China?

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          The usual let’s pretend US-vassal Chinese civil war losers are aboriginal Taiwanese thing.

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      Provided that is not part of USA’s plan. Remember that whole “Second Afganistan” idea from a few months ago?

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          I didn’t mean Afghanistan for the USA. I meant Afghanistan for USSR. In which case manpower doesn’t matter. Just have to keep pumping arms to whichever group of crazies is fighting against Russia. Will it backfire down the line? Very likely. But it can also force Russian government to increase expenditures on security (both at home and on other territories). It’s fairly cost effective, compared to trying for an open war. In fact that is something USian analysts have been accusing Russia of doing a few years ago.

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              Indeed. So they can do all that, AND paint themselves as a “scrappy underdog, fighting against big evil bad tidal wave of authoritarian evil”, thanks to having an absolute chokehold on the media (internet included).

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          Yeah Americans aren’t going to war against Russia. If it came to war there would be an immediate revolution across the West. Even without war the economy is collapsing and the end is near.