The Kaliningrad problem

Not many Americans have even heard of Kaliningrad, which is part of Russian territory, though it is detached from the main body of Russia itself. Kaliningrad sits on the north side of Poland and next to Lithuania on the Baltic Sea. It is the home of Russia’s Baltic fleet today.

Kaliningrad (former Königsberg) had been part of Germany’s East Prussia region, which was lost in 1945 toward the end of World War 2. Later, the Potsdam agreement gave Poland most of the southern portion of East Prussia, and the USSR was given the north portion. The city was rebuilt after being largely destroyed in World War 2.

In 1991, when the Soviet Union disintegrated, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia were given their independence, but Kaliningrad remained as part of the new Russia. As part of the agreement, NATO declared that it would not move one inch toward Russia. This agreement, of course, was quickly ignored. Poland joined NATO in 1999, and Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia joined NATO in 2004, along with many others.

The 1991 agreement also stipulated that in return for Lithuania and Latvia’s independence they would grant an unrestricted railway connecting Kaliningrad with the rest of Russia.

Kaliningrad suddenly made news when, on June 20, 2022, Lithuania broke their treaty and refused to allow Russian trains across its territory. Technically, they refused to allow about 50 items to be shipped by rail to Kaliningrad. They claimed that this was required by the EU and NATO as the result of the sanctions.

https://mronline.org/2022/06/27/nato-blockades-kaliningrad/

With the success of Russia’s operations in Ukraine, we have to be concerned about NATO reacting to their strategic defeat by shifting their aggression not only to intense economic and propaganda warfare against Russia but also against Russia’s position in the Baltic region.

The blockade imposed on Kaliningrad on June 20th by Lithuania, a NATO member, and approved by the European Union, on the pretext of enforcing their illegal ‘sanctions,” is a direct act of war against Russia which will lead to immediate action by Russia to end the blockade, and follows the NATO logic which has been expressed openly for some time.

Legally speaking, sanctions cannot abrogate treaties, but the precedents have already been set in many ways in recent years to give arbitrary sanctions authority over treaties. We also saw this in the past year when vaxx mandates ignored the Nuremberg Code that specifically defines forced medications and vaxxes to be war crimes.

At any rate, the Kaliningrad blockade appears to be another escalation in the war that NATO has been waging against Russia for decades. Let’s hope that rational people replace the neocons before things get totally out of control. The US State Department really needs to end the Brzezinski Doctrine and the Wolfowitz Doctrine.

https://qrius.com/wolfowitz-doctrine-us-russia/

In February 1990, then-Secretary of State James Baker suggested that in exchange for cooperation on Germany, US could make “iron-clad guarantees” that NATO would not expand “one inch eastward.”

As Gorbachev acceded to Germany’s western alignment on the condition that the US would limit NATO’s expansion, Baker’s own top officials at the Pentagon began to push Eastern Europe in to the US orbit.

That is how the Wolfowitz Doctrine—named by Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Paul Wolfowitz, later the prophet of George W. Bush’s neoconservatives—was developed amid the end of the Cold War.

The Doctrine deemed the US as the world’s only remaining superpower and proclaimed its main objective to be retaining that status. Its first objective was “to prevent the re-emergence of a new rival, either on the territory of the former Soviet Union or elsewhere that poses a threat on the order of that posed formerly by the Soviet Union.”

For this reason, the US policy has been to suppress Russia’s recovery from its collapse in 1991. This was also an advancement of the idea of globalism—a one world government led by a single superpower, that is, the USA. This Doctrine was sure to clash with both Russia and China.

The Brzezinski Doctrine, set forth by Brzezinski’s 1997 book, The Grand Chessboard, has the same goal—US dominance—but focuses more on maintaining trade routes by sea, which are controlled by the west. Brzezinski feared the “New Silk Road” that would span the vast territory of Russia, linking Europe with China. If trade routes on land through Asia were to be developed, the sea lanes would become less relevant.

Out of this Doctrine came the idea that it is unfair for Russia to have so much land with so many natural resources. Hence, the west has proposed breaking up Russia into many smaller countries that could be more easily controlled by the one-world government of the west.

In 2016 Brzezinski himself acknowledged the failure of the Doctrine named after him. I wrote about this here:

https://old.godskingdom.org/blog/2016/08/the-failure-of-the-brzezinski-doctrine

Even so, the western oligarchs, led by the Rothschilds, did not abandon their goal. Instead, they became more militant, thinking that they must destroy Russia to achieve their goals. This was why they led a coup in 2014 to take over the Ukrainian government and to bring Ukraine into the western orbit, the EU, and NATO itself. Russia’s sin was to defend itself. The western media’s false prophets then claimed that Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started the problem. Those who do not pay attention to current events over a period of time tend to forget anything that occurred more than a year ago. I try to remind you of the progression of events, so that you, at least, can be informed and not be caught up in the Russophobia set forth by the neocons.

Meanwhile, the western media continues to claim that Russia has blockaded Ukrainian ports (presumably Odessa), when in fact Odessa was the one that laid mines in front of the port, preventing ships from leaving. Russia has even offered to allow Ukraine’s grain to be shipped through Mariupol, once Russian forces took the city from the Nazi Azov brigade.

The first foreign ship sailed from Mariupol into the Black Sea on June 21.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E8irsSCl6Co