At his year-end press conference, Russian President Vladimir Putin was asked about a possible blockade of Kaliningrad. “If there is such a threat, we will eliminate these threats. Everyone should understand this. This will lead to an unprecedented escalation of the conflict and bring it to an entirely different level, even expanding it to a large-scale military conflict,” Putin warned. This warning is very timely, as Kaliningrad has been the main target of the present build-up of military forces in the Baltic as a new “NATO front” against Russia with the complete failure of NATO’s Ukraine operation.
NATO planners are already developing scenarios for such a Baltic offensive. And statements this year by Christopher Donahue, the commander of U.S. and European forces, which mooted the possibility of an invasion of Kaliningrad and the complete destruction of Russian forces there, underlined the danger.
Recently, a Chinese portal, Sohu, indicated the likely result of such an attempt: First a limited nuclear attack on such “invading forces,” which would no doubt be responded to, followed by a full-scale attack on European cities which could result in 34 million casualties in five hours.
