Posted on 10/29/2022 6:49:28 PM PDT by Alter Kaker
Six years ago, the Russian navy formed a new army corps whose job it would be to defend Kaliningrad, Russia’s geographically separate outpost on the Baltic Sea between Poland and Lithuania.
This year, when the war in Ukraine began to go badly for Russia, the Kremlin yanked the 11th Army Corps from Kaliningrad and sent it into Ukraine. Where the Ukrainian army quickly destroyed it.
The formation, deployment and destruction of the 11th Army Corps tell a story that’s bigger than the tragic tale of Russia’s war in Ukraine. The corps, sandwiched between two NATO countries along a strategic sea, was supposed to give Russian forces an advantage in a global war.
Instead, it became cannon fodder for a Ukrainian army that, on paper, was weaker than the Russian army was. Now Kaliningrad is all but defenseless, and the threat the oblast’s troops once posed to NATO … has evaporated.
(Excerpt) Read more at forbes.com ...
Kalingrad should be part of Poland
Number of troops the United States and Europe is willing to commit for your great and heroic cause: 0.
lol. based on what right? Given that such statements are now semi-official, it is doubtful that Poland needs to stay Poland.
Not really. It was never part of Poland.
Forbes is a Chicom mouthpiece owned by a Chicom company. They would love to drag the US and NATO into a worthless war.
How many millions of Ukrainians have fled the country?
How many residential units in Ukraine are now rubble?
How many Ukrainians have died in this war?
Thank you for posting this article. There i so much information, I was unaware of the formation, deployment and destruction of the 11th Army Corps.
Technically it should be German, being that it is ancient Prussian land, but there are no Germans there anymore.
Poland is still owed enormous reparations by both Germany and Russia, so Kaliningrad going to Poland would be at least a down payment on justice.
So how many ground fighting troops are in Kaliningrad?
The Teutonic knights turned into the Prussian aristocracy. Which became part of the basis for the Hohenzollern monarchy (aka “Prussia”, which mostly wasnt Prussian). Which turned into the German Empire, and then Germany, and then whatever the WW2 Allies let it be.
There is still a Teutonic order -
https://www.deutscher-orden.at/site/lang/en
Germanic Teutons adopted the name of the Baltic Prussians they conquered.
“Not really. It was never part of Poland.”
In the 15th century it was. Like other Prussian territories it should have gone to Poland. Giving it to the USSR just means another inevitable Danzig/East Prussia/Polish Corridor situation would be created (no irony that was also part of the old Prussian/Pomeranian state as well!).
“It was never part of Poland.”
It was in the 15th century.
If the Teutonic Knights stayed in control of the region WWI and WWII would never have happened.
“Technically it should be German, being that it is ancient Prussian land, but there are no Germans there anymore.”
Technically it should be Prussian - but there is no Prussia. And the Prussians disappeared - I mean the real Prussians - disappeared 400 years before Prussia did. They were Balts, not Germans.
The Russians are doing so poorly that have annexed 40,000 square miles of land that is now and will remain part of the Russian Federation. Ukraine has no air defense whatsoever and the power grid is being steadily degraded right before winter.
The Ukrainians and Biden regime lie and neocons repeat the lies.
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