EU Forced Sanctions Push the World Closer to WWIII
Al Ritter
Not two days have passed since I wrote my last article
of where the Russian aggression might spread next, and it turns out I might
have been right. The EU after a meeting in Brussels has decided to basically
cut off the supply road from Lithuania to the Kaliningrad Oblast area.
In 1993 Russia and Lithuania had signed an agreement
to allow such transit of good through Lithuania to the outpost area of
Kaliningrad. The items banned will include coal, metals, construction
materials, and advanced technologies. I assume that any military hardware would
also be banned. Kaliningrad Governor Anton Alikhanov has claimed that these
banned materials represent 50% of what his state imports. Now materials may still be shipped from St Petersburg by way of the Baltic but securing those ships may take a while.
The Kremlin has announced that such a violation of the
agreement by Lithuania is tantamount to a hostile action against Russia and
retaliation will certainly be on the table.
Lithuania is caught between a rock and a hard place
here and is now merely a pawn in the strategy game. On one side they had an agreement
with Russia and on the other side the EU is forcing sanctions and NATO will have
to play along.
At any rate this is a dangerous game of chicken that
may play out very badly. Never did I think when I wrote my article two days ago
this would come to fruition so fast.
Watch video here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDlppxJ1PXU
Update 6/30/22:
3 comments:
Dangerous times!
I think you are correct the EU is using Lithuania as a pawn in a dangerous game.
Stop predicting bad things only good things
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