Yeah, I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking that this post will be some provocative screed about a Judeo-Nazi push from the Mediterranean Sea in the West all the way to the Jordan River in the East, displacing the Palestinian Untermenschen, just like the German
Dysgenics at work? People are acting completely loco in the NATO vassal states. I think northern Europeans desperately need an infusion of Asian DNA, or something. I say that as a man of mostly northern European heritage, British, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Tuscan with a little bit of Amerindian, east & south Asian DNA to spice things up a bit.
First thing I thought, too, Ray... the Germans/NATO will be positioned to cut off the supply lines to Kaliningrad. Second thing I thought... now add that to Finland and Sweden joining NATO. So, the intermediate term plan seems to be to cut off Russia from the Baltic Sea entirely. And then Murmansk becomes the chokepoint:
"Everything necessary must be done to complete the Murmansk Transport Hub project as soon as possible, Putin said according to regional media reports.
Secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, told Putin that the Baltic Sea turns into an inland sea for NATO as Finland and Sweden join the Alliance making transshipment of goods via Murmansk one of the main transport routes for Russia.
Murmansk is the only year-round ice-free port in European Russia with direct access to the North Atlantic."
So like you say, they are going to push and push to see how far they can go. It seems they are "dead set" (no pun intended) on NATO having a direct war with Russia (which is madness). As for using this for bargaining capital vis-a-vis Ukraine, I don't think the pieces will be in place in time; no, I fear this is far worse than that. They have given evidence they are removed enough from reality to devise such a scheme.
It's crazy in so many ways that you wonder, could this be a ploy to convince the Russians that we really are that crazy, and they'd better go for a ceasefire?
Like so much, it goes back to the aftermath of WW1--unless you want to go back centuries. Check out Finnish history. They had never actually been an independent country until the end of WW1. But being independent wasn't good enough for the relatively recent movement of Finnish nationalists. They wanted a Greater Finland that incorporated areas with tiny Karelian minorities that had been part of Russian states since the time of Novgorod in the Middle Ages. That's what led to the wars with Russia and Finland's alliance with Germany in WW2. Stalin could have kept Finland after WW2 but didn't, just insisted on neutrality. Not good enough for the Finns, apparently. There's a lot of history that needs to be rewritten. My wife is reading about the psychopathic Dulles brothers and the beginning of Deep State America. We grew up under a narrative that is only know crumbling. But we're not alone in the West.
Now they’ve lost all independence…I thought, as you mention, that the newbies (wedded to Davos) somehow got in…oh boy. Now they’ll be under the boot of the US - whereas before, vis-à-vis Russia, they were left alone…
Dysgenics at work? People are acting completely loco in the NATO vassal states. I think northern Europeans desperately need an infusion of Asian DNA, or something. I say that as a man of mostly northern European heritage, British, German, Dutch, Norwegian and Tuscan with a little bit of Amerindian, east & south Asian DNA to spice things up a bit.
Easy on the Tabasco SMH!!
May be stationing Germans will make the Lithuanians feel safe enough to cut off Kaliningrad.
I’m sure they are thinking the Russians would never attack Lithuania and establish a land corridor to Kaliningrad.
Or the West thinks stationing Western Troops on the Russian border, including Finland, will terrify the Russians into a ceasefire in Ukraine?
First thing I thought, too, Ray... the Germans/NATO will be positioned to cut off the supply lines to Kaliningrad. Second thing I thought... now add that to Finland and Sweden joining NATO. So, the intermediate term plan seems to be to cut off Russia from the Baltic Sea entirely. And then Murmansk becomes the chokepoint:
"Everything necessary must be done to complete the Murmansk Transport Hub project as soon as possible, Putin said according to regional media reports.
Secretary of the Security Council, Nikolai Patrushev, told Putin that the Baltic Sea turns into an inland sea for NATO as Finland and Sweden join the Alliance making transshipment of goods via Murmansk one of the main transport routes for Russia.
Murmansk is the only year-round ice-free port in European Russia with direct access to the North Atlantic."
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/industry-and-energy/2022/07/murmansk-transport-hub-gets-status-strategic-important
So like you say, they are going to push and push to see how far they can go. It seems they are "dead set" (no pun intended) on NATO having a direct war with Russia (which is madness). As for using this for bargaining capital vis-a-vis Ukraine, I don't think the pieces will be in place in time; no, I fear this is far worse than that. They have given evidence they are removed enough from reality to devise such a scheme.
Yes, it becomes pretty existential for Russia. Doesn't seem smart to try to back them into a corner--they have their own cards to play.
It's crazy in so many ways that you wonder, could this be a ploy to convince the Russians that we really are that crazy, and they'd better go for a ceasefire?
This is nuts. 2024 may prove an annus horibilis.
'There is no need to be at war with Russia.' Except the money need, naturally.
Finland has been neutral for many years - what happened?
Like so much, it goes back to the aftermath of WW1--unless you want to go back centuries. Check out Finnish history. They had never actually been an independent country until the end of WW1. But being independent wasn't good enough for the relatively recent movement of Finnish nationalists. They wanted a Greater Finland that incorporated areas with tiny Karelian minorities that had been part of Russian states since the time of Novgorod in the Middle Ages. That's what led to the wars with Russia and Finland's alliance with Germany in WW2. Stalin could have kept Finland after WW2 but didn't, just insisted on neutrality. Not good enough for the Finns, apparently. There's a lot of history that needs to be rewritten. My wife is reading about the psychopathic Dulles brothers and the beginning of Deep State America. We grew up under a narrative that is only know crumbling. But we're not alone in the West.
Tx for that background - the Finns may yet rue their new Nato membership…scary
Now they’ve lost all independence…I thought, as you mention, that the newbies (wedded to Davos) somehow got in…oh boy. Now they’ll be under the boot of the US - whereas before, vis-à-vis Russia, they were left alone…
Yup as you say…