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12,000 Russian Troops Were Supposed To Defend Kaliningrad. Then They Went To Ukraine To Die
Forbes ^
| 10/29/22
| David Axe
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.
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To: Alter Kaker
I wonder what percent of freepers reading this thread realize it is a hoax
To: ansel12
What is rambling about it? The point is that neither me nor you know for sure, but the premise doesn’t make sense.
To: UNGN
...That show thousands of Russians being blown up, on video. And you enjoy watching things like that? You seek that out?
63
posted on
10/29/2022 9:41:25 PM PDT
by
Allegra
To: NorseViking
Actually, we just read an article from Forbes filling us in on the situation, so now you know, while you admit you knew nothing about the situation before.
64
posted on
10/29/2022 9:45:33 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
To: ansel12
I know that MSM is mostly channeling Ukrainian propaganda since February. Like Ghost of Kiev, Snake Island, hundreds of dead generals, rape rooms and all such baloney which doesn’t stand basic evaluation.
To: NorseViking
That was a canned response, if you didn’t want to read the article and learn about the situation then you should have just skipped the thread.
66
posted on
10/29/2022 9:55:42 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
To: Alter Kaker
And Kaliningrad is defenseless. The Czechs will hold a referendum there for Kaliningrad to join Czechia as Karolec!
67
posted on
10/29/2022 9:57:13 PM PDT
by
Cronos
To: BigEdLB
As a dual Polish citizen, I would say no. Poland doesn’t want Kaliningrad or Konigsberg.
It was founded by Teutonic knights on old prussian (the baltic peoples) territory. It was never a part of any Polish entity, only at best part of the vassal state of the teutonic knights from the 1500s to 1700s.
It ought to go to Lithuania whi are descendents of the old prussians relatives, fellow balts.
But the problem with that is that Kaliningrad is filled with Russians ever since 1945 and the German population moved out en masse. I doubt Lithuania wants that trouble
68
posted on
10/29/2022 10:01:54 PM PDT
by
Cronos
To: packagingguy
A peace deal with the status quo as of December 2013? That would work.
Anything else is giving in to a thug who takes more and more, first your front porch, then your entrance hall, then attacks you in bed and you fight back pushing him nearly outside whereupon he shouts “let’s maintain the status quo, make a peace deal, I get your front porch and entrance rooms for now and we have a truce.”
69
posted on
10/29/2022 10:10:33 PM PDT
by
Cronos
To: Cronos
Ok . I stand corrected-Lithuania makes sense
70
posted on
10/29/2022 10:11:56 PM PDT
by
BigEdLB
(Let’s go Brandon!)
To: Cronos
71
posted on
10/29/2022 10:15:31 PM PDT
by
Cronos
To: Alter Kaker
we know that biden=obammy leftists tried to ram down our throats:
covid fear porn
covid vax lies
covid mandates
covid lockdowns
j6 lies
j6 hearings of mendacity
guns cause crime
trannys, fags, criminals and dumbocraps are good for society
killing 'fossil' fuels is good for us
I could go on forever
but some incredibly dense {ignorant} posters here SIDE WITH THE LEFTISTS! who, I might add, are in league with the leftist media to cram the ukraine/hunter biden corrupt crap down our throats
72
posted on
10/29/2022 10:21:46 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: ansel12
I read it. It fits the pattern.
To: NorseViking
Instead of folding to preserve itself as a nation How can any sane person write such nonsense? Surrendering to Russia would have led to the elimination of the Ukrainian nation.
74
posted on
10/29/2022 10:40:10 PM PDT
by
Salohcin
To: Salohcin
The comment is alike to that bin Laden attacked NYC because he envied the American freedom.
To: NorseViking
Another canned response, you make basically the same ridiculous post on every thread.
76
posted on
10/29/2022 10:46:37 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
To: ansel12
Was Ghost of Kiev real?:)
To: Alter Kaker
“Now Kaliningrad is all but defenseless, and the threat the oblast’s troops once posed to NATO … has evaporated.”
Except getting your capital city vaporized if you attack it.
78
posted on
10/29/2022 10:48:00 PM PDT
by
DesertRhino
(Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up..)
To: Salohcin
Surrendering to Russia would have led to the elimination of the Ukrainian nation.
prove it
79
posted on
10/29/2022 10:49:02 PM PDT
by
867V309
(Lock Her Up)
To: NorseViking
It’s like dealing with a child.
80
posted on
10/29/2022 10:59:51 PM PDT
by
ansel12
(NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.)
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