This is not about a railroad. It's about the sovereignty of the Russian nation, and NATO is fully aware of that fact. This doesn't end well.
But perhaps there will be one silver lining to a major war with Russia. It will move military forces outside of the borders of western nations, and leave the corrupt rulers of those nations exposed to internal correction by their citizens.
You're preaching to the choir here. I'm not on-board with the "doesn't end well" scanario. Not yet anyway. Sergei Lavrov is probably the most experienced foreign minister in the world. This is a chess game, in which Lithuania has taken a pawn, but it is part of a bigger game of pressuring Russia on different fronts. Russia knows this and has plenty of leverage over Lithuania. Do you think buying LNG through Belarus and Estonia hurts the Russians? It is the Russians that provide LNG to Belarus and Estonia. It's all a show right now. Japan is being chided into acting on the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin dispute with Russia. These islands were granted to Russia in the Yalta Agreement at the end of WWII. The US wants to pressure Russia from every side. Russia knows it and the countries acting as proxies are learning that Europe and the United States are in an economic mess and the military support given today may soon be gone tomorrow.
This is not about a railroad. It's about the sovereignty of the Russian nation, and NATO is fully aware of that fact. This doesn't end well.
But perhaps there will be one silver lining to a major war with Russia. It will move military forces outside of the borders of western nations, and leave the corrupt rulers of those nations exposed to internal correction by their citizens.
You're preaching to the choir here. I'm not on-board with the "doesn't end well" scanario. Not yet anyway. Sergei Lavrov is probably the most experienced foreign minister in the world. This is a chess game, in which Lithuania has taken a pawn, but it is part of a bigger game of pressuring Russia on different fronts. Russia knows this and has plenty of leverage over Lithuania. Do you think buying LNG through Belarus and Estonia hurts the Russians? It is the Russians that provide LNG to Belarus and Estonia. It's all a show right now. Japan is being chided into acting on the Kuril Islands and Sakhalin dispute with Russia. These islands were granted to Russia in the Yalta Agreement at the end of WWII. The US wants to pressure Russia from every side. Russia knows it and the countries acting as proxies are learning that Europe and the United States are in an economic mess and the military support given today may soon be gone tomorrow.