Listened to the radio news (BBC) on Patrushev’s threat to retaliate against Lithuania re Kaliningrad goods transport ban. My ears woke up. It felt like another one of those moments when we all need to listen. Europe might soon face direct confrontation with Russia. A real risk.
The Russians are pounding what is left of Luhansk region. They think time is on their side. As rhetoric heats up, fueled by palpable anger against the west, supported by a zombie-zone domestic population blinded by propaganda and poverty, I fear the worst tbh. I really do.
Like a bad divorce things have to get worse before they can get better. There is no real peace in Europe nor working with Russia until the current gang of war criminals is gone: but the getting there. The getting there is the scary feels like unavoidable pain for all part.
Also if my history doesn’t escape me (I may be wrong here) and we know VVP is obsessed with it, the Soviet Union first started to unravel in Lithuania. The first protests were in Vilnius. For a jaded ex-KGB turned wannabe Peter the Great, perhaps the perfect target.
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