Lithuania has been taking orders from the US for a while now. Back in 2020, Lithuania started signaling that it would not ratify the EU-Cuba deal when everyone else in the EU did. And in 2021, the Lithuanian parliament passed a resolution saying it was not “politically appropriate” to ratify.
In 2020 Gabrielius Landsbergis as then conservative leader said “the dictatorial and corrupt Cuban regime cooperating with terrorists” is using the EU agreement for its goals. Moreover, ratifying the deal would harm Lithuania’s ties with the US, he believes.”
Landsbergis went on to become the current foreign minister.
Cubans can travel to Russia visa free. Since the start of this year some of them have been showing up to Lithuania through Belarus and claim asylum. Lithuania should be expected to live up to its words. If several thousand Cubans cross into Lithuania to claim EU protection, Lithuania is obligated to give them asylum.

Posted by: havana | Jun 22 2022 17:17 utc | 3

Lithuania also is very angry at China. It didn’t help them, it’s causing lots of problems actually but they don’t care as long as master is pleased. Somewhere in Baltic states or Finland/Sweden will be Ukr v2.0, but will be much worse for them than it is for Ukr

Posted by: rk | Jun 22 2022 17:27 utc | 5

Well Lithuania does have the highest suicide rate in Europe
since independence in 1991 this country has lost about 1 million people, started at 3.7 million now at 2.7. Falling birth rate, increasing death rate and immigration to Western Europe
At this rate there will be none left in a few decades

Posted by: Aslangeo | Jun 22 2022 17:45 utc | 7

A lot of barbed wire at Lithuanian detention centers for refugees.
Posted by: havana | Jun 22 2022 17:34 utc | 6
Well, from US wild accusations: any barbed wires around Xinjiang buildings, indicate “inhumane Uyghur concentration camps” in Xinjiang, China, these Lithuanian centers for refugees are against US moral fibers and are in violation of human rights.

Posted by: KitaySupporter | Jun 22 2022 18:04 utc | 9

@ Paul Greenwood | Jun 22 2022 17:22 utc | 4
Poland will never see 250 Abrams tanks which it cannot pay for.
Poland is about to get a $38B grant from EU, so it can probably afford $5B for tanks and another $5B for F-35 mistake-jets.

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jun 22 2022 18:14 utc | 11

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I wanted to thank you, or whoever is advertising my posts here.
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Enjoy it while you can … they’ll take you down shortly … I promise.

Posted by: Bruce Lee Marvin Gay | Jun 22 2022 18:16 utc | 13

@10 Saggy
You’re being willfully obtuse. It literally (can you read?) means RF isn’t going to be the one to start, but in the unlikely event UK starts a “serious” war, it will get it in full. Normally it’s not necessary to say this kind of thing, but lately people pulling the levers are crazy.

Posted by: ptb | Jun 22 2022 18:18 utc | 15

If my reading is correct, Martyanov is simply out of his mind. If my reading isn’t correct, what in hell is the correct reading?
Posted by: Saggy | Jun 22 2022 18:13 utc | 10
LOL. The trumpeting saggy baggy elephant?

Posted by: Bones | Jun 22 2022 18:20 utc | 17

I had a few more thoughts on the Lithuania issue.
Reuters reports, according to its president that ‘no military confrontation is expected’.
https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/lithuania-were-ready-if-russia-cuts-us-out-common-power-grid-over-kaliningrad-2022-06-22/
Therein lies both the salvation of Russia (and all of us?) and its principle challenge: one nation after another is provoking it, confident that its NATO status means it is protected from any attack.
But what would this protection mean exactly? What would be the point of Uncle Sam’s Marines landing and manning every intersection from Vilnius to Klaipeda to prevent a Russian invasion, when a volley of well placed (and unstoppable) missiles already caused every Lithuanian to go without water, gas and elx for weeks, meaning the total collapse of its economy, all without a single Russian soldier having so much as crossed the border?
And what if that was followed up with a direct address to the West by Putin, issuing an ultimatum that anyone attacking Russia or crossing its red lines like Lithuania did (violating long standing treaties that threaten its sovereignty) will succumb to the same fate.
Of course, NATO would have to respond somehow. But how exactly? Maybe a submarine based missile attack, that way no country is left directly exposed to the next wave? By who though? Biden? I don’t see it. It’s a short list of countries with such capabilities. Would Boris be keen to bomb St Petersburg to protect Lithuania? One hopes he would also show as much reluctance to do so as his fictional predecessor in Yes Prime Minister (quite prescient, and very funny despite the subject matter): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qVO85anasrA&list=PLfLF9Cxz1egl9EF6CCKzPoSQJBTBZz7qo&index=39
So someone puts their hand up, Russia takes a hit, yet knowing the first example has been set already: Lithuania has been neutered and will regret it for decades, Russia gets a bloody nose but lives on. Good luck getting another politician to put themselves on the line for Uncle Sam and see their economy destroyed by standoff weapons having just seen what happened (well… maybe Poland still would, LOL).
Luckily for us all, those in the Kremlin think these things much more thoroughly, and every scenario above would risk WW3, but it’s also evident that it is NATO increasingly goading and calling Russia’s ‘bluffs’ so to speak, (Ned Price dismissing Russian protestation literally as ‘bluster’, wtf) while Russia so far has not done so with NATO.
Perhaps the right circumstances have yet to present themselves, but I would not be surprised if eventually something along those lines could happen, and the fig leaf of Uncle Sam coming to the rescue of every one of his little vassals hiding behind the US military might, could soon be exposed for the feeble promise it actually is.
As for the European armies, even in a combined effort, (once again, how many will actually sign up for the meat grinder?), it doesn’t seem there is anywhere near enough equipment, manpower or ammo in all of Europe to stand up to Russia (at the current tempo) even more than a few weeks according to: https://www.analisidifesa.it/2022/06/le-prime-amare-indicazioni-dalla-guerra-in-ucraina/ (in Italian, fyi, the writer regularly appears on major networks with a more nuanced view to the usual pro NATO propagandists)
PS: Finland also trying to talk up a big game:
https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/finland-is-ready-fight-russia-if-attacked-defence-chief-2022-06-22/
How? Finland appears to have 21,500 active personnel, with up to 10-12 times that available in war time. One hopes their reserves are more up to the task than Ukraine’s.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finnish_Defence_Forces

Posted by: Et Tu | Jun 22 2022 18:24 utc | 19

Re: Lithuania
It’s also a case of harassment being done as a provocation. Plus another treaty violation by NATO, but that’s losing its shock value. Similar to, say, when water was cut off to Crimea. There will be a workaround, and eventually if they keep screwing up, something may be done that persuades them to either walk it back (more likely, as was the case in a number of previous gas-transit standoffs) or make it so much worse (less likely) that the problem is fixed at its root. The making-it-worse-and-escalating-to-another-war is less likely, because it’s hard to imagine any population wanting to repeat Ukraine’s experience of being so obviously and mercilessly sacrificed by NATO, for a few short weeks of propaganda victories on twitter.

Posted by: ptb | Jun 22 2022 18:35 utc | 21

Posted by: Heavymetal101 | Jun 22 2022 18:01 utc | 8
Yup basically correct – about 24600 births and 48000 deaths in 2021 – albeit during COVID
To put the birth dearth into perspective there were 56000 births in 1991 over twice todays total- continual decline in natural population change since 1994 , put emigration into the equation and there will soon be nobody left
Latvia is even worse in terms of demographics and Estonia not too far behind

Posted by: Aslangeo | Jun 22 2022 18:36 utc | 23

@ptb 18
Agree. But it will be messy with lots economic and population casualties. To west, this is their existential threat, albeit fictitious. They could have easily divided the pie a bit more justly but no, they are in a zero sum mind set and don’t know how to crawl out of that hole.
Future is bleak.

Posted by: Alpi | Jun 22 2022 18:41 utc | 25

@ Et Tu | Jun 22 2022 18:24 utc | 19
What would be the point of Uncle Sam’s Marines landing and manning every intersection from Vilnius to Klaipeda to prevent a Russian invasion, when a volley of well placed (and unstoppable) missiles . . .
Yes, the US especially Biden has been so ‘yesterday’ by not considering Russia’s alternative options to “every inch.”
>Biden: We have a sacred obligation under Article 5 to defend each and every inch of NATO territory.
>“I’ve made it crystal clear,” said Biden, “The United States and our allies will defend every inch of … NATO territory
>Joe Biden warned Vladimir Putin not to go ‘one inch’ into NATO territory.
>I have made crystal clear the U.S. and our allies will defend every inch of territory that is NATO territory with the full force of our collective power.
>Russia, “Don’t even think about moving on one single inch of NATO territory”

Posted by: Don Bacon | Jun 22 2022 18:43 utc | 27

Simultaneously I am reading news about at least three outbreaks of three different dangerous infections in three different spots.
One alleged case of colera in Spain.
Poliomielitys virus detected in sevage waters in the UK
A case of antrax in South Russia….
I guess we all will agree these are our friends who only in Ukraine had around thirty high security biolabs…..

Posted by: Ghost of Mozgovoy | Jun 22 2022 18:53 utc | 29

@ Posted by: Saggy | Jun 22 2022 18:13 utc | 10
Agreed, for all his knowledge and expertise, respectfully, when it comes to balanced analysis Martyanov can be, like many here, a very biased and grumpy patriot, who often expresses himself in maximalist terms and dismisses those that disagree with him as idiots. Which is fine for the 90% of the time he is correct.
His case is further complicated imo by the guilt and cognitive dissonance of a Russian who lives in the USA since he left his beloved country for a better life, irony of all ironies, in the terrible, hopeless and corrupt USA…
As for the “there is nothing UK or NATO can do about it” bit:
What i believe he meant, specifically, is that they can’t do anything about it to prevent the attack, since NATO has no counter to Russia’s missiles, meaning it must count of DETERRENCE, but of course a retaliation would occur if London was ever attacked.
If we are to believe Martyanov though, Russia can also count on superior DETECTION and INTERCEPTION capabilities. (though it’s always the fear of the ones that get through that reverts everyone to DETERRENCE anyway… so i guess by the time Martyanov’s argument comes into play, we are all screwed anyway)

Posted by: Et Tu | Jun 22 2022 19:00 utc | 31

@ Hereward | Jun 22 2022 19:03 utc | 32
That didn’t occur to me, but, I think you’re right. And it plays into Martyanov’s conceit that Russia has new missiles that can’t be defended against. Of, the US and several other countries have had for 50 years ICBMs which can’t be defended against.

Posted by: Saggy | Jun 22 2022 19:08 utc | 33

Miami police buying guns from ??? to send to the Failed State. Now that is sure to help to the “fighters” in the Failed State.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/06/20/miami-police-ukraine-gun-buyback-weapons/

Posted by: Tom_12 | Jun 22 2022 19:34 utc | 35

I bought a new ipad, so was able to start another new account on imgur. Did that yesterday, was banned again today. This time I didn’t mention any “protected species”, and refrained from any vulgarity or “hate speech”. Purely historical background, to inform their perspective on this Ukraine thing. Still got banned. LOL.
I guess we will see each other on the flip side, as they say.

Posted by: Featherless | Jun 22 2022 19:43 utc | 37

Paul Greenwood @30
“I am well aware of Polish coal supplies – it is after all why Prussia acquired Silesia.”
I appreciate Paul Greenwood’s entries, but with this one I have a little trouble; Silesia did not even know that it had coal under it until AFTER the 7-year war. Coal was discovered in 1785 or so. The coal was not the reason for all the wars over it, by Frederick the Great.

Posted by: fanto | Jun 22 2022 19:54 utc | 39

The entire coal thing is more Clown World scatterbrained BS. Those plants still using coal might need non Russian sources but something no one is bring up about coal is that you need coal miners. This is one of the worst jobs in human history, people did it because they were desperate, living in remote communities with no other work. It was a generational skill past on from father to son of hard luck hard scrabble people. It was the family and community and deep rooted culture that sustained them and inured them to the hardship. The whole industry in the EU was part of a historical continuum, long interrupted. In 2022 you don’t just put an ad in the classified saying coal miners needed, and the only way anyone will show up is if you are paying at least €35/hr with full benefits and modern safety regulations. IOW it’ll take years to rebuild the coal industry and it’ll be damn expensive.
As for firing up mothballed coal plants the only possible use is municipal electricity generation. What factory or home in the entire EU has a friggin’ coal furnace in 2022? So, is electricity supply also at risk in EU, are there cities in EU generating electricity from oil and gas? Sounds silly expensive and unlikely. Are they planning to give out electric space heaters to entire populations? Every factory that uses gas gets an electric blast furnace? All ready to go by mid October?
If neo-liberal, neo-feudal EU does go through with it expect the coal miners and plant workers to be brought illegally from Indonesia and India, that should go down just dandy. I’d guess the immediate plan is for the coal to be imported and they run the coal powered electric plants on a wing and prayer. Given what’s going on in the world my guess it’ll cost at least as much as oil or gas. I think central and north EU knows they are going to freeze to death and the pols are selling a crock of shit to be able to say they tried their best.

Posted by: LightYearsFromHome | Jun 22 2022 20:19 utc | 41

Another great summary from the Military Summary channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zo2CZSNkr5A
The situation with the Donbass salient reminds me of the battle for Normandy. The latter was a very painful fight, but once the Allies were able to overcome the German resistance it was flat out to the Rhine – with only supply chain issues forcing a halt.
A good presentation on the Normandy offensive and the Operation Cobra breakout.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jALjIAfpQjk

Posted by: Roger | Jun 22 2022 20:23 utc | 43

@ 10 saggy @ 31 Et tu
The new head of the British Army indicated he wanted to fight Russia.
Boris meatloaf is an errand boy running to Kiev
UK Foreign minister Truss wants to fight Russia
Bring it on says Andrei M & Sergei L
Let’s bomb Blighty back to the bronze-age where we’re headed anyhow.

Posted by: WTFUD | Jun 22 2022 20:40 utc | 45

Mother Russia being led around the arena on a ring in her nose by – Lithuania. An insignificant sanddune where noone wants to live. A country whose language is a dead-end and hasn’t adapted in a thousand years, and will have the status of Latin by 2050. Wow. I know, Gorbatchev is still alive, but Russia is really already haunted by his ghost.
Whatever links there still are between Lithuania and Kaliningrad, electricity, water pipes, sewers, phone lines, etc., those will be successively cut by Lithuania, with a maximum show effect. Life for the one million Russians in Kaliningrad will be made much more cumbersome. And their country will just trail behind. It only has pesky Peskov and the Kremlin’s autistic legalism to deal with their neighbor. It’s sad.

Posted by: Scotch Bingeington | Jun 22 2022 21:16 utc | 47

@47
I’m afraid you are a bit behind the eight ball. The days of negotiations and legalism ended in Feb. 2022. The new Russia is not in the mood to be trusting and polite. And they are not shy about announcing it either. See the latest interviews of peskov, Lavrov and Patrushev.
And Lithuania, like many others will have to suffer to the point of losing their sovereignty and territory to learn, he who does not have an independent opinion does not deserve to have a country under their control. Simple rather.

Posted by: Alpi | Jun 22 2022 21:27 utc | 49

@ 31 Et tu
case is further complicated imo by the guilt and cognitive dissonance of a Russian who lives in the USA since he left his beloved country for a better life, irony of all ironies, in the terrible, hopeless and corrupt USA..
The entire Saker Blog is a dumping ground for Western Intelligent agents who fled to the USA on protective status. The two Andrei’s cannot even enter Russia. Think about that. Of all the countries to pick they ended up in the USA? How is that possible? If you were born in America that is one thing, but these two jumped through a lot of hoops to acquire residency (green cards). It wasn’t a snap decision.
Some dislikes:
The Saker Blog pushed the idea that Kiev would crumble within days. And if you disagreed with them you were an idiot.
The childish gibberish of giving nicknames to things you don’t like (401? or 404?) is pathetic.
If your site pushes Gonzalo Lira and not the work that Patrick Lancaster has done you are on the wrong path. Lancaster is the real deal. The problem is, unlike Lira, he is not a showman or actor. Lancaster also has no clue how to market himself. His work is easily the best by any English speaking journalist.

Posted by: Caucasian Eagle | Jun 22 2022 21:38 utc | 51

Meanwhile, today the bottom fell out of the UA greater-Lisichansk position! Good news!
Hope they are able to complete the encirclement, which would ultimately save many lives. Likewise, hope that UA forces on the edge of the area wishing to escape pointless sacrifice, get to escape before the nazi shoot-em-in-the-back units arrive.

Posted by: ptb | Jun 22 2022 21:39 utc | 53

Caucasian Eagle #52

If your site pushes Gonzalo Lira and not the work that Patrick Lancaster has done you are on the wrong path. Lancaster is the real deal. The problem is, unlike Lira, he is not a showman or actor. Lancaster also has no clue how to market himself. His work is easily the best by any English speaking journalist.

Yep ++, any site with a claim of credibility should be inclusive of the many excellent sources of information on the liberation of Ukraine. Graham Phillips is ok too but I do appreciate the rough and untidy work by Lancaster – a breath of fresh air.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 22 2022 21:51 utc | 55

@57 LightYearsFromHome
I dunno, must be a boatload of single horny females looking for company.
If you’d had a torch flashed up your ass by the gestapo, wouldn’t you respond to the slightest creak of the floorboards?

Posted by: WTFUD | Jun 22 2022 22:06 utc | 57

If he’s in Kharkov, he’d have mentioned what’s happening in the city and the suburbs. But, he never says anything about that. He must be back home in the US…

Posted by: ostro | Jun 22 2022 22:17 utc | 59

Latest from Dejan Beric, DNR militia officer of Serbian origin: 1)War is progressing good, and morale is very good 2)Both sides use a lot of artillery of all calibers 3)There will be a provision for foreigners to serve in DNR militia under contract soon. Apparently there are a lot of volunteers, that had to be turned down thus far 4)Militiamen are so enraged with Ukrainian artillery shelling civilians in Donetsk, that they are demanding from Denis Pusilin to make provision for in-situ military tribunals for captured ukrainian artillerymen, to be tried and shot on site.

Posted by: Misa | Jun 22 2022 22:33 utc | 61

#1
DO NOT GO THERE
Nice try RS but total BS

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 22 2022 22:39 utc | 63

WTFUD #58

If you’d had a torch flashed up your ass by the gestapo, wouldn’t you respond to the slightest creak of the floorboards?

I would believe it when I see proof of presence in Karkhov. And don’t try the old Kharkov chocolate shop vid.

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 22 2022 22:45 utc | 65

Saggy #10

“For starters, Russia is not going to attack UK, …. But then it wouldn’t matter anyway–Russia will rearrange stones in London and nothing UK (or, in broader terms, NATO) can do about it.”

Perhaps it is the cross cultural insult merely suggesting the brits are stone age cretins and that reassembling a few rocks on the ground would confuse their simple minds sufficient to guarantee Russian victory. Martyanov does possess a touch of arrogance mostly :))

Posted by: uncle tungsten | Jun 22 2022 22:53 utc | 67

@61 Peter AU1
His style of argumentation – misrepresenting / straw-manning some Russian or Pro Russian alt-media secondary source, then playing dumb when called out on it, then being superficially polite, then simply repeating his claim… makes me think he’s a renamed previous visitor we get on and off every week or two, who seemed to me was in the UK but not from the UK.

Posted by: ptb | Jun 22 2022 23:35 utc | 69

Only a complete idiot. Or a total philistine would destroy. One of the better museums in the world. The artifacts on display. Are completely priceless………….
Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Jun 22 2022 22:42 utc | 65
Well then, clearly that is a prime target.

Posted by: tucenz | Jun 22 2022 23:57 utc | 71

Posted by: Bad Deal Motors On | Jun 22 2022 22:42 utc | 65
“Only a complete idiot…”
Well there was Obama and crew’ ISIS or ISIL or whatever they are called now, going around doing what they did best.
Pretty sure Boris and Obama play in the same club.

Posted by: Heavymetal101 | Jun 23 2022 0:06 utc | 73

@ Bevin,
Man I did just a quick look into the Bulgarian situation. Petkov is something. None of his easily accessible bios even mention when he left Bulgaria and became Canadian, but a Canadian degree, a Harvard MBA, backed by former hedge fund manager and appears on the scene in Bulgaria to start a brand new political party with priorities of “tackling corruption” and joining the EU, with his Harvard MBA Bulgarian buddy is just brazen. The “new Europe” project isn’t going so well.
It’s almost unbelievable that the US has so far gotten away with installing so many “dual-citizens” in Eastern Europe. Good thing they all have an escape route, because odds are good that they won’t be terribly welcome in their new/old countries for long. But I’m sure they’ve all padded their nests during the brave struggle against “corruption”.

Posted by: Lex | Jun 23 2022 0:47 utc | 75

I’ve also noted the increased activity of what some suspect are western intelligence trolls behind the absurd and pathetic attempts to discredit reality in favor of narrative engineering nonsense.
I submit that these might be low paid staff of the USG and to believe that such utter morons are within the western ‘intelligence’ agencies is certainly within reason, however perhaps even more likely these are just brain damaged products of western propaganda believing that they are somehow clever enough to convince fully functional and healthy human beings that the sh*t sandwiches they offer might make us decide to join them in the bullsh*t built fake world they inhabit?

Posted by: iseeit | Jun 23 2022 1:05 utc | 77

On the 81st anniversary of operation Barbarossa (22. June 1941), which marked the beginning of the end of German Nazis, The German wunderwaffe “Panzerhaubitze 2000” entered service in Ukraine. Disgusting!

Posted by: Anonymous | Jun 23 2022 1:34 utc | 79

196km across Lithuania – I wonder if the Russians could send a guarded train across to enforce their treaty rights.

Posted by: the pessimist | Jun 23 2022 1:42 utc | 81

The amount of noise is directly proportional to the amount of panic.
And there is a lot of noise now 🙂
About the sources of noise here (roughly 70% of comments?) I think most of them are operating without knowledge or direction and contrary to the objectives of the ones they identify with (rather than who they pretend to identify with —which can be anyone). If that’s not the case then they’re even more panicked than I think they are.

Posted by: Sunny Runny Burger | Jun 23 2022 2:20 utc | 83

Headline:
Joe Biden Blames Putin For Killing All the Dinosaurs!
Chevron Exec Says Massive Fuel Price Increases Go Back
10 Million Years?

Posted by: Cadence Calls | Jun 23 2022 2:54 utc | 85

Whether or not Martyanov had this in mind when he said Russia will let the UK rearrange stones, Einstein’s words bear repeating, “I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones” Albert Einstein

Posted by: Willow | Jun 23 2022 4:31 utc | 87

Re: John Spor

Posted by: fanto | Jun 23 2022 1:41 utc | 81
One of the high value people in the Marjupol steelworks was apparently a nuclear scientist, John Spor, as reported tonight by ABC. He is founder of a company Texas Photonics , Inc.;

John Spor has nothing to do with Azovstal or the Azov Brigade. According to Linkedin he has been the President of Mariupol Electronics (Маріупольс Електронікс) from March 2014.
Here is a fantasy story from CBS News.

Texas scientist John Spor rescued from Ukraine
A nuclear scientist from Texas, who’s credited with designing sensitive technology found in dozens of laser-guided weapons systems used by the U.S. military, was rescued from war-torn Ukraine.
Members of the non-profit rescue organization, Project DYNAMO extracted John Spor from Russian-occupied territory deep in the country.
***
To date, the organization [DYNAMO] has rescued more than 2,000 people from the most war-torn, contested, and Russian-occupied areas of Ukraine and transported them safely to neighboring countries…

This part of the story is half fiction.

Spor, was living in Mariupol, Ukraine, when the city was attacked and occupied by invading Russian forces in February. Following the siege and unrelenting brutal artillery and missile attacks, he fled his home and went into hiding.
Chechen-Russian forces ransacked his home and hunted Spor for months, according to a spokesman for the organization.

Yes, Mariupol was largely destroyed in the attack. But I am unaware that it was ever targeted by artillery or missiles. Most of the damage is caused by 125 mm tank guns firing direct fire through windows into apartments and apartment buildings.
Wherever we see artillery or rocket artillery being used on residential areas, it is Ukraine that is firing.

Posted by: Petri Krohn | Jun 23 2022 4:59 utc | 89

While the May 9:th attack on Snake Island surely was an attempt to get a propaganda win, wouldn’t the latest attack more likely be a probing attack designed and coordinated by USAF to explore RF air defense capability against a combined UAV, missile and artillery attack?

Posted by: elak | Jun 23 2022 5:44 utc | 91

The Estonian Prime Minister forgot to mention to the two candidate countries that – by the way – Estonia will be “wiped from map” whether it is a NATO or not. https://www.ft.com/content/a430b191-39c8-4b03-b3fd-8e7e948a5284

Posted by: Jonathan W | Jun 23 2022 6:27 utc | 93

Janusz Bugajski is a senior fellow at the Center for European Policy Analysis (CEPA) in Washington, D.C….
Posted by: susan mullen | Jun 22 2022 23:57 utc | 71
——————————-
Janusz Bugajski is of Polish origin, so has that inborn Russo-hate…they can’t change their mindset…and, thinking

Posted by: ostro | Jun 23 2022 7:10 utc | 95

Want to see something spooky? Go to Liz Truss’s Twitter account (UK Foreign Secretary) and there are a disturbing number of pro-Lithuanian tweets in the week before Lithuania declared a blockade on Kaliningrad.
Clearly, this is the UK pushing this confrontation, more so than Germany/France or the US.

Posted by: Sam | Jun 23 2022 7:24 utc | 97

“Ukraine has no historical justification as it has only existed as a nation since 1923”
Kaliningrad has only been Russian territory since 1945.

Posted by: Noam A. Larkey | Jun 23 2022 7:57 utc | 99