Nato, Narva, Kaliningrad/Königsberg, Financial Times och Carl Bildt
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2014/04/nato-narva-financial-times-och-carl.html
The Estonian border town of 63,000 people, dominated by a fortress that straddles the river, has been thrust into the geopolitical spotlight since Russia’s invasion and annexation of the Crimean peninsula.
Some have suggested that Narva could be where – after Ukraine – Russian president Vladimir Putin opts to test the Nato alliance directly.
FT 11 Apri 2014
https://www.ft.com/content/9f829192-c07d-11e3-8578-00144feabdc0#ixzz2ybg0WEO9
Rysslands hot har satt ljuset på exklaven Kaliningrad
Genom universitetet, grundat 1544, blev Königsberg ett andligt centrum; här verkade Immanuel Kant 1755-96. Kaliningrad har ömsat skinn många gånger genom historien. På 1200-talet hette området Königsberg och regerades av tyska korsriddare.
Kaliningrads län slår in en kil mellan Polen och Litauen och har ingen egen landförbindelse med Ryssland.
DN 13 februari 2022
https://englundmacro.blogspot.com/2022/02/rysslands-hot-har-satt-ljuset-pa.html
“The United States will defend every inch of NATO territory with the full force of American power,” President Biden said Thursday.
“There is no doubt—no doubt that the United States and every NATO ally will meet our Article V commitments, which says that an attack on one is an attack on all.”
More forward deployments, with permanent troops and munitions, are
essential. The small Baltic states near Russia are the most likely Putin
target given their strategic position, ethnic Russian minorities and
smaller military forces. There’s also the risk of hybrid attacks to
undermine the democratic governments in Lithuania, Latvia or Estonia.
WSJ 25 February 2022
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