"Lithuania and Poland Want to ‘Recover’ Kaliningrad, Russian Analysts Say"
That would certainly shake things up:
Kind of reminds one of Hitler and the Danzig Corridor, as it was then known, now Gdansk.
From the always interesting Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor, November 2....
And from 19fortyfive a few hours ago:
The Kaliningrad Problem Most Security Experts Forget About Is Very Real: When discussing the precipitous security situation in Eastern Europe at present, it is easy to forget that a potential Russian invasion could be a two-front war.
On one front, an attack could come along NATO’s easternmost border, especially Poland’s border with Belarus, or at one of the Baltic States; on the other, NATO could experience an equally devastating offensive from virtually inside its own house, from the heavily armed oblast of Kaliningrad.
A Russian enclave located just above Poland and just under Lithuania, the threat from Kaliningrad is more easily overlooked than Russia proper. The former capital of the Prussian Empire, it is also culturally distinct from the rest of Russia; it is common for inhabitants to commute to Poland or Lithuania to buy otherwise unavailable European products. But that is a rather benign façade for the true role of the oblast. Of late, Kaliningrad increasingly resembles an island of nuclear weapons.
Kaliningrad is home to both Russian conventional forces and nuclear-capable Iskander-M (SS-26) ballistic missiles. What Poland and Lithuania need to do in terms of coping with a two-front war is suppress any offensive capabilities from Kaliningrad. In this situation, preparedness is everything. If Poland and Lithuania are not prepared to defend their borders with Kaliningrad as quickly as their borders with Belarus, they will be caught in a vice from Russian forces moving on multiple axes....
....MUCH MORE
It may be time for M Izabella Kaminska to dispatch Agent Kelly:
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(previous visits to Kaliningrad were thanks to FT Alphaville's Jemima Kelly)
