Why Russia is weakening Kaliningrad

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Why Russia is weakening Kaliningrad
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@Pierluigi_Di_Lorenzo

You can't quote 2015 studies about Russia's possibilities to isolate the Baltic states, no one imagined then that Sweden and Finland would become NATO members.

@markmuller7962

The isolation of the baltic has been effectively nullified by the accession of Finland ans Sweden in NATO

@tobiasranevi7146

Small correction: Åland is a self-governing territory and completely demilitarized. If NATO wanted to use those islands, that would have to change

@ValensBellator

“A 2015 study”

@cestusfr

Kaliningrad lost a lot of pressure it had over Poland when Poland finished the Vistula Spit canal too.

@g.aathoz1211

How up to date are those estimations of Russia taking the Baltics really? The same experts who said Ukraine would fall in a matter of days? I think the only thing we know for sure is that we know very little and that the conditions of war have changed dramatically since the last great European conflicts.

@dustinhamabata902

Russia can isolate the baltics

@ii4371

I don't think de-escalation is the goal, as just recently Russia declared its intentions to unilaterally change its maritime borders with Finland and Lithuania, and also removed some buoys from the Narva river demarcating its border with Estonia. Russia has ambitions in the Baltic region, but Ukraine just happens to be bleeding them dry at the moment. These recent actions are like a direct counterweight to moving equipment away from Kaliningrad, as if Russia wants to avoid sending a message of de-escalation at all costs.

@Lucas_Antar

Sweden: Applies to NATO

@johnsmiff8328

Something makes me think if they tried this tomorrow, Poland would jump at the opportunity to transform Kaliningrad into a part of the sea floor

@tmike_tc

Kaliningrad is important because that is where the little man with the huge table docks his superyacht - the one they snuck out of the Hamburg shipyards without paying the bill.

@reinerheiner1148

Putin simply needs his military personel and equipment in ukraine. He can easily later rearm kaliningrad. He knows its safe from nato because nato would never dare to attack first. Any other explanation is just overthinking it.

@marka7759

I loved how the polish changed the city signs at the exclave to "Königsberg" 😂 when invasion began

@Hession0Drasha

Replacing the energy infrastructure, disconecting the baltics from russia and to the rest of europe, has happened far quicker than anyone thought possible. The transport infrastructure is coming along at pace as well. Making the baltics even less vulnerable, every day that passes.

@ehsnils

Everyone talks about closing the Suwalki Gap, but then continues to totally ignore the fact that there's no infrastructure there at all.

@Mark-ml3nv

It's almost like Putin is admitting NATO is not an aggressive pact.

@Nikita-yy9hi

10:47

@20quid

They used to call Cyprus the unsinkable aircraft carrier. That description now applies to Gotland.

@MrTryAnotherOne

1. Kaliningrad (Königsberg) is a lost cause and couldn't be defended anyway. 2. Russia needs the equipment elsewhere. 3. The Kremlin knows dang well that NATO has no aggressive intentions towards Russia.