Two weeks ago, a NATO blockade of Kaliningrad, an outpost of Russia, was triggered when Lithuania blocked the transport of goods through Suwalki corridor. According to the Lithuanian justification they were following through on NATO sanctions against Russian goods. However, the escalation was very provocative toward Russia and discussions between Russia and NATO countries were tense.
Apparently, Germany was increasingly concerned the blockade was creating a scenario where Russian military were going to escort the transport of railroad goods to Kaliningrad, and that would lead to escalated military conflict with Russia. “German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is eager to avoid unnecessary provocations of Russia. He has repeatedly emphasized that he would do everything in his power to ensure that NATO does not become a party to the war between Russia and Ukraine. German soldiers are stationed in Lithuania and could become involved in a possible conflict.” {link}
The EU has now dropped the blockade and the transport of goods between Kaliningrad and Russia will resume. The EU decision was made before the NATO meeting in Madrid concluded; however, it looks like NATO postponed the announcement until after Biden left in order to save face on the reversal of position.
GERMANY – The European Commission plans to issue a clarification that will allow Russia to resume sending supplies to the exclave of Kaliningrad via Lithuania. Berlin supports the idea, but some in Vilnius are not pleased.
[…] The move will put an end to a disagreement that had not only been a significant source of tension between Russia and Brussels – but also exposed deep rifts within the EU regarding the correct approach to Moscow.
[…] The European Commission clarification expressly applies to all EU member states, but it mostly only affects the situation in Kaliningrad. According to the document, Russia will be allowed to transport sanctioned goods to Kaliningrad, but only in amounts comparable to pre-invasion deliveries.
The policy that has been adopted by the Commission largely reflects the position of the German government. Berlin had been critical of the approach taken by Lithuania.
German Chancellor Olaf Scholz is eager to avoid unnecessary provocations of Russia. He has repeatedly emphasized that he would do everything in his power to ensure that NATO does not become a party to the war between Russia and Ukraine. German soldiers are stationed in Lithuania and could become involved in a possible conflict.
The rules for the transit of goods, Scholz said at the conclusion of recent NATO summit in Madrid, “must of course be established in light of the fact that this is about shipments between two parts of Russia.” The comment made it clear that Berlin has a different interpretation of the legal situation than the government in Lithuania. (read more)
Wow, someone had good sense, not seeing much of that lately. Wish PINO Bidet would quit laundering taxpayer money in the kraine. Guess zelensky told him hunter’s and the romney kid’s checks from oil companies would stop. PINO – president in name only
This is somewhat disappointing. Things were looking pretty hopeful Putin would hit Brussels and DC with his 1st strike.
Include DAVOS, otherwise theres little point.
With Davos, good chance the first strike is the ONLY strike,…and I share your disappointment, but it ain’t over, fat lady isn’t even outvof bed, yet and if anyone can screw this up, its the Insane Idiots In Charge.
Especially the Grape-for-Brains in the White House.
Potato head prez
and more importantly chatham house where all the evil on earth is created and controlled.
Ha! I think I got your sense of humor there! Indeed, 85% of US citizens (an all-time record, I believe) would certainly appreciate any help from friendly (or unfriendly?) foreign governments to aid in liberating them from the hands of raving lunatic tyrants who, not so coincidently happen to be Democrats, they of the sanctimonious pose of being our greatest patriots and constitutionalists, something only they and their disgusting sycophants ever believed.
These Murikan citizens believe that?
Pretty obvious that Biden wants the Ukraine money laundering to keep going.
Biden, Graham, etc. don’t want the truth of their money laundering and pedophile ring with Ukrainian children getting out.
Bribe money to hinder any further talks of negotiations. Zelensky sold out his country’s citizens.
Wonder what will happen with Russian settlements on Svalbard? That is also fairly serious and seems a NATO provocation.
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/russia-warns-norway-over-restricting-110213774.html
Germany is presenting as a country who is extremely reluctant to be in nato and enforcing nato’s craziness. It’s clear they’re going through the motions and dragging their feet – ostensibly to minimize damage to relations once this dog and pony show is over. Good job Germany. Someone actually has the courage to stand up and do the right thing.
Germany does not have such a good track record. The previous time they had troops in Lithuania they teamed with the Lithuanians to kill 120,000 jews, see Wikipedia.
This had NOTHING to do with the German political leaders…. this had everything to do with a command coming down from their masters, the Davos Cabal, telling to back off.
It was convenient for the masters to let the German political leaders to be the carriers of the news.
I think this is “NATO’S craziness”; I think it is Joes, and because NATO has always been a fake and a front for the U.S., the swampers are trying to drag EU countries into it, and Germany is balking, just as Poland did with delivering warplanes.
Overall, this is poking big holes in their fantasy of ending the Nation State, and replacing it with a One World Government, as Germany and Poland are each displaying very parochial interests and concerns for their OWN well being.
So, they bought into this green energy crap, and are now paying a very steep price for that,…and the same people are now pushing them to take provocative actions which are NOT in their own best interests, AS A NATION, and they are balking.
About damn time they started thinking for themselves. Now, maybe, they can also begin to protect themselves again instead of depending on the US nickle to do it for them.
freezing to death is very personal and local
Germany doesn’t want Putin to completely stop Nord Stream 1 after it is shut down for maintenance.
Germans’ families had personal experience with pissed off, double crossed Russians on a national scale…
Waited for PedoJoe to GTFO!
😂
They were too polite. Brandon is worthy of nonstop humiliation.
Looks like many are starting to see BRICS as the future and maybe not bug eating. Any defeat of Brandon is a victory for humanity.
Did China order Joe Biden to wreck NATO, first in Afghanistan and now Europe, or is he just Mr. Magoo on a Ukrainian holiday?
“Bilk Brag Barter–you know, the thing!”
Rest in the Vine: Ukrainian Rhapsody – UPDATE: PRES. MO LESTER GOES FULL- WAR PIG!
I say Mr. Maggoo.
Vilnius is not happy….As if anyone cares!
While it’s quite disappointing that all this is happening at all (and didn’t need to) I have some calmness in finally being truly awake (red pilled) during this. I’m sure if this was happening under the Bush 43 administration, I would be very asleep and ignorant of realities.
I guess maybe asleep and ignorant is somewhat relaxing, I think I like being in this red pilled observing position. I guess it’s the fact that we can see what they are trying to do (even though we feel powerless to put the brakes on sufficiently). I feel better in this position than the others side is as they are and will be continually blind sided.
First eye-opening and conversion for me was when “a mall” in Ukraine was bombed … “Oh noes! Russia man bad”
Then – the same day, I think is was – drone footage came out showing a Ukraine mobile rocket launcher truck in a field firing off a full volley of all its rockets …. and then driving a few blocks this way and that way until it parked under a parking structure for concealment (and re-loading, likely) …
… at the mall !
Same awakening that mainstream media were lying to me as I had during the Zimmerman trial and that first brought me to the Treehouse
Yes! Exactly so!
I remember, that, too! I saw photos of the operational Ukraine military depot underneath that empty mall. I can’t remember the mall’s location.
There have since been many such false flags, where the Ukraine army fired on civilian or empty targets, then claimed Russia was targeting innocents.
I think that there will be more to come, in an effort to gin up hatred against Putin, to justify more weaponry needed.
The Davos Cabal is made up of bullies.
Putin is not a bully, he’s the real thing.
So, he stood up to the bullies and they had to cave in.
Let’s just wait and see what happens in 10 months in the Ukraine… in the meantime, buy Raytheon stock… sell it in 10 months.
Bullies and bs ‘artists’ bluster and threaten, cause thats what they do.
Real men don’t, cause they don’t NEED to. Alpha males, vs everybody else.
One punch in the mouth of a Davos critter and he’ll start crying.
See, THIS is the kind of thing that causes me to seriously question the narrative that “this is ALL planned, and the WEF’ers anticipate and actually INTEND these outcomes, cause ‘they are evil, but they are NOT stupid!”
I have no doubt they HAD a plan, but once the plan encounters REALITY, reality bursts the bubble of self deception they live in.
And, if you LOOK, we see it a LOT.
This article details only the most recent total blunder, but its hardly the ONLY one.
Remember when U.S. announced POLAND would GIVE warplanes to Ukraine, and then U.S. would replace them?
Poland publically said “Uh, NO! WE will fly them to Ramstien AFB in Germany, and then YOU can give them to Ukraine!”
If they had a PLAN, and they were “all on the same page”, we would NOT be seeing such disagreements aired in public, cause there would BE no disagreements.
In Congressional hearings, we see a consistent pattern with M.Cohen, Blasey Ford and now this new bimbo, where they put witnesses in front of the cameras, whose outrageous testimony is discredited almost immedietely, undermining the case they were intended to bolster.
Another example is trudope and the Truckers; surely justin was consulting with Schwab and other leaders, and yet everything he did was the WRONG way to handle it, from initially downplaying, to refusing to meet, to fake covid as an excuse for hiding, and the biggest tell of all; when he announced he was freezing/seizing bank accounts, and then 24 hours later, with his handler nervously watching, having his public Emily Lattella moment,..”Oh, never mind!”
This is NOT the work of “smart” people, following a carefully thought out plan, with contingencies, and all on the same page, and ANTICIPATING the results of their actions, which are intentional.
Occams razor is these are just what they appear to be; mediocre, incompetents, faking it and never making it, who have failed up, and they and whoever recruited and placed them are clueless.
Hubris, arrogant overeducated idiots trapped in a bubble of unreality, surrounded only by those who are in the bubble, with no idea whats OUTSIDE the bubble, no interest in learning, and the belief nothing outside their little World is of import or consequence.
Prove me wrong?
Agreed. Their collective arrogance has gotten the better of them.
Trudeau ( our P.M.) is a real numpty he has a lisp in his truly feminine voice.
Cheers!
Hard to prove you wrong.
But if you ask a true believing, UKR flag pinning, libtard,
they will tell you protecting our Democracy isn’t easy.
They will tell you that sacrifices have to be made.
They will tell you that masks are good, Putin is bad, Trump is
a conman, shots are good for everyone, AND…you are a fascist.
Thats a lot of BS flying at your face.
Keep fighting the good fight, Dutchman
No battle plans survive contact with the enemy.
Your last paragraph! What was the original sin? Man could be God; pride. Just as JPeterson describes in his video today.
And what happens to prideful men?
God, please be your unchangeable Word. Believers are trusting and leaning on The Word.
“Everbody has a plan until they get punched in the face!” -Mike Tyson
Or:
“No battle plan EVER survives first contact with the enemy.”
That’s the way it goes. The enemy didn’t read your battle plan. They didn’t agree to go along with it. They have one of their own.
No question. We have self-anointed elites who believe their own hype and if you watch the enemy MSM they are still carrying their masters water.
“The consent of the governed” Without this, their dictates ring hollow and this diminishes their ability to achieve their wicked goals. It doesn’t mean they can’t screw things up and make life tough on the American people and the West as a whole. But beyond this they will eventually fail.
“it’s always darkest before the dawn”
Doesn’t matter if they are wrong, they now control the outcomes of key elections. They’ve been in control of other strategic entities for decades. Why should they be even slightly concerned about the destruction their agenda is wreaking? Keyboard warriors braying and thumping their chest will comply privately without even a wimper.
Ha! You may go down without a whimper but me and mine are at the ready, and I suspect many treepers and their progeny are as well. We have had to lie in wait thus far, observing while the cabal exposes its weaknesses in full view. We’ve known they were there, just not exactly the form those weaknesses take. It’s becoming clearer daily. Their supporters are ignorant and weak, falsely emboldened by having been given the bullhorn by their co-conspirators in media and tech. They are the low iq, the pedos, the congenitally lazy. Imagine trying to create a fighting force of these losers. BLM? Antifa? Alphabet mafia? Lolololol. They have met with zero resistance. All will fold when they are. One 17 year old in Kenosha brought those pu$&!es to their knees and they haven’t stopped crying about it since. So, with all due respect, speak for yourself. We are patiently waiting. We are far from done here.
Can’t prove you wrong , and certainly hope you’re right !
I think you’re half right. I think the people that we see are mainly just contracted employees – so to speak. I think that masterminds and alpha males are not elevated to these so-called positions of power on purpose; but instead the weak and morally compromised are chosen because, even though they make mistakes, they’re still easier to control.
Get the US out of NATO. If the EU countries want to be the EU, let them be the EU with all rights and responsibilities.
Good economic and trade policies allow for a healthy society and minimize war. Let the US focus on the US and our surrounding trading partners. If the US is a good trading partner with other countries, then maybe our faith in creator given rights will be that shining light for all to follow.
It’s pretty obvious that the UN is not the ideologic institution that should change and guide the world. Corruption at its worse. While dissolving it is likely the best path forward, should the baby be thrown out with the bathwater? Is the baby already dead?
Someone asked?
Is a US citizen is placed on an elevated surveillance status if they say “whew, glad to see a de-escalation there”.
What about people who work for the US military-industrial complex? Is expressing relief at de-escalation considered a sign that they might be “the enemy within”?
Because all are under 100% 24/7 surveillance. If one even talks to a spouse in bed, the phone is feeding that audio to the surveillance fusion and analytics. And DoD is now monitoring security clearance holders in real time, according to this
https://www.defense.gov/News/News-Stories/Article/Article/2800381/all-dod-personnel-now-receive-continuous-security-vetting/
If the phone on your nightstand is listening to your pillow talk, imagine what else it may be listening to. Fourth Amendment? What poster thought our Bill of Rights still stood?
“Hello Orwell? This is the future calling. Your surveillance concepts were way too primitive.”
Perhaps blockading Ukrainian grain exports and starving Africans to death might also be viewed as provocative?
Russia did not block ports the Ukes mined them. Russia cleared mines and developed safe passages for merchant ships weeks ago. Similarly the Ukes have been setting fire to their own graineries. Di not believe the propaganda.
The Russians withdrew from Snake Island recently and overtly stated they would not interfere with commercial shipping . Do you read the news?
Love this news!
What was it President Trump used to ask us every once in awhile?
Are you tired of winning yet? 🤗
Folks, I will say, we have had some big wins this week! THANK YOU JESUS!
🙏🙌
Sane people have no desire to go to war with Russia.
The common belief is that Russia invaded Ukraine (Russia invaded Ukraine, not Putin) because Biden was weak and that they would not have invaded when Trump was president because they were aware of his strength and determination. Not so.
Russia did not invade when Trump was in office because Trump was not a friend of the regime in Ukraine and was not aligned with those that allied with them. Therefore the international fascist Nazi forces in Ukraine were not a threat to Russia.
Russia invaded Ukraine when Biden took office as there was an alliance with those that fraudulently installed Biden with the fascist Nazi world order cartel. Hunter Biden was the gopher (go for this, go for that) and his drug and sexual exploits are openly publicized by the main stream as they do not want the deeper dirt to come out, that which is the Biden’s treasonous alliance with international interests that seek political and economic dominion. The number one objective in attaining that goal is to topple U.S. constitutional law and the U.S. economical and industrial infrastructure.
I think it’s even worse than that: Biden gave Zelensky the green light to mass forces and attack the breakway Donbas region. The Russians caught wind of this and got the drop on them. I clearly recall Biden saying about Putin “he’ll see what we do” in an arrogant fashion late last year. Now he and his handlers has seen what Putin has done – checkmate.
The EU realizing that NATO is going to get them nuked is priceless. Two nearly overlapping groups of bureaucrats, but the EU crowd says no (sans US) but NATO (with US) says yes. Somebody is figuring that the costs of aggression against Russia will not be evenly shared, even if there is a collective security arrangement.
The US will be isolated with a useless currency. Alliance with USA is a suicide pact. After their reset fails, we will build back better, with extreme prejudice against those who destroyed our country. Maybe the BRICs folks will help us out.
NATO makes sense defensively , but offensively maybe less so.
Except that NATO HAS gone on the offense against Russia, a surrogate to replace the Soviet Union as the justifying enemy of the Grand Alliance of The West, i.e. NATO.
The main reason the US and its fiat currency is getting pushed aside is that the US industrial economy has been decimated by globalists gorging on vastly cheaper offerings offshore, with the main slave-hive “human capital” being China.
Which exacerbated many other ills in the US, a destructive negative feedback loop. (For example, look at the dismal state of education, further poisoned by identity class Marxism too.)
Then leading the globalists to start their end game within and outside the US government, including all the energy strangulation, inflation by strangling economies with the manufactured plandemic plus ballooning fiat money supplies, rising interest rates to drive another stake in economies, and now the Russia sanctions with their intended results of splitting the global monetary systems and starting the dethroning of the dollar (with even more inflation and food supply threats, plus the coming war to lock in totalitarianism).
With 100% surveillance of the populace.
It takes more than a few decades to build a nation’s industrial base like the US was built on, necessary to Make America Great Again. And that would be under ideal political and government conditions, not the Orwellian surveillance nightmare we are beset with now, including the biowarfare started early 2020 with the second mass injection stage started December 2020.
See
https://conservativeplaylist.com/2022/07/03/dr-ryan-cole-reveals-even-more-covid-19-jab-adverse-reactions-that-are-killing-americans/
How’s the cognitive dissonance?
It seem not only TDS has made the governments of the western world lose their minds, but RDS (Russian Derangement Syndrome) has made them go over the edge of rational behaviour.
And they all worked so hard to get Demented Old Joe in office. Now that they have weakened the US military, they also weakened what was their backbone.
You see being woke not only means you go broke, but you lose– military, intelligence agencies and the masculinity that make those thing work. The troops are more concerned about the color of their hair and whether they should like the opposite gender!
When you sell yourselves to another country for energy production you’d better be prepared to eat their arse on demand.
elegantly put
It’s looking more and more like we are reliving the run up to WWII. Constant capitulation or turning the other cheek, or ignoring the behavior of the bully state of Germany in the late 1930’s. Only now it’s China and Russia, instead of Germany and the USSR.
Very sad that we have to depend on German socialists, for even a minimal grasp on sanity.
These are cornered desperate swamp rats and as their evil plans fall apart look for all manner of lunacy.
It’s amazing he even has 17% that still see this lunacy as reasonable. Mean tweets somehow justify a nuclear exchange with Russia.
Even the dullest wits are seeing this as lunacy.
Thank God that Lietuva was not wrecked AGAIN for the political folly of the West!
11 hundred troops in these countries? And we have 10 thousand per day coming across our southern border? Clown world is an understatement. The German Army? was a complete joke in the late 80s while we were still in the cold war. I can’t imagine what a joke it is now, traffic cops in uniform?
When are Germany and France going to find a solution that keeps Russia in a detente. You don’t have to love Putin nor Russia to do business.
The Ukraine has been a healing scab, ripped off regularly by corrupt American Politicians as they plunder the U.S. taxpayer with their mobbed-up tools in the Ukraine.
France and Germany need to tell WEFee soy boys like Trudeau to go back and make peace in their own divided countries.
The EU has no spine or want for war! Led by Joe Biden, the puppet Potus,
only bad things are in-store for NATO & the EU if they keep on this self destructive path!
Shockingly weak move from the EU. The fact is, it’s irrelevant whether this specific transport route to Kaliningrad was taken into account when the sanctions were initially imposed – it’s not a blockade, because Russia can still supply Kaliningrad by sea. This might be inconvenient, but so is having one’s country invaded. This is a pitiful concession to make. Even if the sanctions were more explicit and Lithuania had acted independently, the EU should have shown some unity and stood behind them rather than throwing an effectively frontline member state under the bus as they have done. Pathetic.
President Biden last week went to Europe to NATO and while at the press conference he verbally attacked the our Supreme Court and America. Obviously, he hates America and tells Europe the same:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XyN31kw7r5U&feature=emb_title
What absolute idiots these cretins are. Can’t they think things through before making a move like shutting down Russia moving sanctioned goods to Kiliningrad? Now they had to retract and look like the fools they are.
Brandon gets punked again, love it !my daily reads used to be , zero hedge,lew Rockwell, American thinker,and rt, now it’s mainly here .
👍 Sundance !
So the German surrender monkey in charge is no better than the Stasi princess previously in charge. Big shock there. Germany is a waste of time, money and effort. Karma continues to bite them on the backside and that is a good thing. Maybe their electorate will wake up one day and do something about it although it’s unlikely.
That was a too much even for Russia and I think they knew that. They want war with Russia but they just don’t want to DIE (yet) for it. 😉
I have to wonder how Sweden and Finland voted on this ‘change of heart’ as they would have been attacking Russia long before the ‘NATO higher ups’ in Brussels would have been.
I also think that this move by NATO will have Russia come up with a more ‘permanent solution’. Taking territory in the south, so Odesa cannot block goods going from Crimea to their ‘satellite state’ west of there that is also surrounded by NATO friendly nations.
I have read and viewed a vast amount of material re Ukraine since this conflict started from both sides . Youtube along with the bulk of the MSM is grossly one sided (Ukraine) only showing supposed Ukraine victories and Russian destruction and hiding the truth . Is Russia receiving losses ? of course they are , this is war , out and out war no doubt . Did the allies receive losses on D Day or Dunkirk or the battle of the Atlantic with 3400 allied ships sunk by U Boats and the list goes on . Enormous losses of men and materials beyond comprehension but the allies prevailed as will Russia .
Ukrainians are being slaughtered at the moment in appalling numbers and completely unnecessary . Why ?, so they can say at the end “well at least we put up a good fight ” while they sit amongst the rubble ! Meanwhile Russia will assist hugely the job of rebuilding the Donbass region much quicker than anyone could imagine , Russia has plenty of resources to do so . Ukraine will have Kiev if they are careful but if they move on the East and south east or the Crimea bridge Russia will flatten every Government building in Kiev .
The Duchy of Grand Fenwick was taken to the woodshed by TPTB who have a vital interest in keeping their countries from being turned into glowing cat boxes. It is indeed tragic no one has taken up the study of Russian-not Communist-history, culture, and mindset. I for one, would not allow any of my grandchildren, nieces, nephews, or students to end up as cannon fodder for Poland, the Baltics, Sweden, Norway, Finland, etc. These countries need to understand they need to reach an accommodation with the Russians. Europa ist verloren.
Good. The Ukraine is a corrupt Kleptocracy. They are not worth one American dime, and not one American soldier.