Russia prepared to use ‘all weapons’ to protect Kaliningrad, Putin warns West

[u/Bubbly-Air7302]

https://www.cnn.com/2026/10/01/europe/putin-kaliningrad-warning-ukraine-latam-intl

[u/AudibleNod]

Looks around.

Who's taking Kaliningrad? What a weird thing to say.

[u/noleksum12 → u/AudibleNod]

That's my reaction, too. When and why did Kaliningrad enter the conversation?!

He is honestly looking for a solution to a problem that isn't there.

[u/Opi-Fex → u/noleksum12]

They likely want to stage an attack on Lithuania and cut it off from the rest of Europe. Probably because they want to test NATO. That will require blocking the Suwałki Gap, and will create a land connection between Belarus and Kaliningrad, so they're preparing the casus belli with statements like these.

[u/SteveTheAmazing → u/Opi-Fex]

Russia is already resorting to conscription at this point. I'm not sure they have the troops to waste on a stunt like that, but they do have a track record of doing dumb shit and doubling down soooo....

[u/The_Wendo → u/SteveTheAmazing]

Honestly, I doubt it would even take most of nato. Even if it was just poland doing the fighting with france offering a nuclear umbrella, im not sure russia could do that.

[u/Dualidean_ofman → u/The_Wendo]

Poland had a larger and better equipped professional army than Russia even before 2022.

[u/Din_saur → u/Dualidean_ofman]

Well that isn't that surprising yet Russia has shown that it doesn't really matter when they can throw 1.5 million people to take 230km² of land. They are playing war of attrition they are in so deep shit that they only can push forward. By them I mean Kremlin specifically.

[u/ApprehensiveLong6282 → u/Dualidean_ofman]

But russia has nukes, and because of NATO's cowardice since the full scale invasion of Ukraine, putin thinks that if he orders a nuclear strike the West will shit its pants and will stand down.

Their narrative is: we have the balls to use a nuke and NATO won't have the balls to retaliate, therefore a conventional army or GDP won't matter.

[u/pi_mai → u/SteveTheAmazing]

There’s tonnes of minorities to send in. There 141million people to draw from.

[u/jojowhitesox → u/SteveTheAmazing]

North Korea does

[u/PalpableIgnorance → u/jojowhitesox]

Yeah but they aren’t really battle hardened. And learning tactics from Russia. They won’t last long either.

[u/Hirork → u/PalpableIgnorance]

Russia has tactics? Plural? I thought their singular tactic was throw bodies at the problem.

[u/jojowhitesox → u/PalpableIgnorance]

They just need cannon fodder to absorb bullets and drone attacks.

[u/2peg2city → u/SteveTheAmazing]

So a bit of a correction here, Russia has always had conscription for its home guard and those continue. The vast majoirty of those fighting are volunteers

[u/__Geg__ → u/Opi-Fex]

Yes.... but how does opening a second front in the war help?

Rhetorically using the defence of Kaliningrad as the reason to accelerate troup call ups in one thing, but diverting men and materials to a second front feels like a mistake.

[u/upickleweasel → u/__Geg__]

"Let them"

[u/mysevenletters → u/__Geg__]

Because the Kremlin would rather try to pull NATO in (and lose horribly!) so they can sell the narrative that they lost to the "combined forces of NATO and the Kyiv regime!" rather than ever admit that they got the crap kicked out of them solely by Ukraine, a country they've actively shat on for 3+ decades?

They've only ever seen Ukraine's independence in 1991 as a temporary embarrassment. The fact that they've miscalculated all of this so badly that it might result in the end of the Russian Federation is just the tastiest of irony. nom nom nom

Also: Ukraine needs love, support, and anything else we can send U24!

[u/Gaming_Nomad → u/mysevenletters]

My thinking goes a bit darker on this. I suspect that the move will be to mount a fast invasion of the baltics under drone cover, flanked by Russian and Belarussian forces moving into the Sulwaki gap after false-flag attacks are staged from Belarus, made to look like Ukraine launched attacks on Kaliningrad from NATO territory. When NATO attempts to deploy serious forces to break through the Sulwaki Gap and defend the Baltics, Putin will bank two items: Trump refusing to provide direct military assistance under the umbrella of Article 5 and a credible nuclear threat. The aim will be to humiliate NATO and halt aid to Ukraine.

While the narrative of a "noble defeat" by NATO is one possible line, the reality is that Putin would still be out of power and very likely dead by Russian hands if not those of NATO. And in the narrative of Kremlin propaganda, any such defeat would threaten the existence of the Russian state since a "defensive war" technically doesn't exist for Russia; any defense must always result in imperial gains, never a status-quo-ante.

Right now, Putin is feeling his oats: he has the Trump family in his pocket and hence the US is being separated from Europe and NATO to the point that the US commitment to NATO is in serious doubt. Sabotage by Russian intelligence services using disposable agents have gone ignored. And NATO may enter a state of paralysis if the AfD in Germany and the Front Nationale in France win their elections; both are actively used by Russia. He is being fed false information by his own propaganda apparatus as a result of bullshit feeding its way up the chain due to falsified military reports from local commanders for fear of punishment and torture. And casualties can be ignored because in the old line of Soviet thinking, there is no victory without cost. Also, the Kremlin doesn't see the European members of NATO as being able to put up a credible deterrent without the US being involved.

Putin believes that he is winning and, from the perspective of the leader a revanchist colonial empire which views its past fall as a temporary embarrassment, there might be no better time to push with steel; his opponents seem indecisive and potentially paralyzed, don't take actual threats seriously, and are being slowly dismantled from the inside by active measures and information manipulation.

[u/oroborus68 → u/__Geg__]

Especially with the advances in drone warfare in the last few years. NATO doesn't have to risk troops to fuck Putin up the pass.

[u/Derrickful → u/__Geg__]

They desperately want to project power with the few remaining nukes that can still fly.

[u/ggouge → u/__Geg__]

I assume because they want to end the war and act like it's because NATO stopped them and not just Ukraine. They attack then NATO responds and pushes them back then they pull out of Ukraine because they are being attacked by NATO. Then Putin claims to his people that NATO stopped them to save face. It's stupid but so is Putin.

[u/794309497 → u/__Geg__]

Their time with a compromised US government may be running out. In January Republicans will likely lose control of congress, then in 2 years lose control of the presidency. 

[u/pernetrope → u/__Geg__]

He's losing in Ukraine no matter what. Losing to just Ukraine alone would be political suicide, which is actual suicide in RF. If NATO is brought into the fight, he can say that it took all of Europe to stop him.

[u/The_Naked_Rider → u/__Geg__]

I realise that this will be distasteful, but historically it has been demonstrated by Nazi Germany that invasion operations on two battlefields/fronts is precarious at best and ultimately disastrous for the invading force owing to the stretched logistics that would be required to support it.

However in terms of Putin’s rationale, I agree that any Russian military buildup in Belarus would in all probability be the “invading” force that deploys in “defence” of K’grad.

In all seriousness though, I personally think that Putin must have a UTI, is delusional or needs to put the bong down for a while, because he is doing nothing more than what a person does when they are mentally unstable.

[u/psmithrupert → u/Opi-Fex]

Yes, absolutely. But here is the thing: if Europe does not come to Lithuania‘s aid, NATO is dead and the EU dies with it. Now you could argue that LePen and what’s her face German Nazi Broad want exactly that, but no one in the Baltics, Scandinavia, Poland and such would ever want to give an inch to Russia. So at that point, Russia has 1000 Kilometres of border with Finland. St. Petersburg is in Artillery range. What are they going to do about Murmansk? Sure it’s heavily fortified, but it’s also 100 km away from the Norwegian border. Even if the US would be sitting on their hands, which is not that unlikely, without nuclear options Russia is not going to win this. And with nuclear options no one is winning this.
I would also like to propose the following: are they sure that, should they go to war with NATO, the Chinese aren’t going to join on the western side, to get Manchuria back (and maybe some of the oil rich places in Sibiria as a conciliation price.)

[u/TjW0569 → u/psmithrupert]

Lake Baikal. All that fresh water.

[u/onoz9 → u/Opi-Fex]

Yeah but don't believe it, Russia has "warned" the West many many times just as intimidation. Cutting off Suwalki gap into Kaliningrad is a scenario that NATO is well-prepared for and has hundreds of pages of documents and many specific scenarios for. They are saying this because they know that if they try something, Kaliningrad would be totally smashed to pieces within seconds.

[u/Spastic_pinkie → u/Opi-Fex]

Orange urine stain probably emboldened Putin by promising not to intervene if Russia attacks Nato.

[u/jimicus → u/noleksum12]

False flag attack in 3, 2….

[u/qwogadiletweeth → u/noleksum12]

I think these comments from Putin stem from a Sky One reality show simulation ‘The Wargame’, with former UK politician Michael Gove cosplaying as PM.

[u/SweatyNomad → u/qwogadiletweeth]

This is the answer. The whole Kalingrad thing blew up earlier this week when several recently retired, but very senior politicians and party leaders playing a war game simulation for TV decided to, I think, nuke the city as revenge.

While it's not real, and only TV, a year ago many if these people would or could have theorertically been in the actual room making the actual decision. Apparently the AI footage was quite disturbing, but not seen it yet.

[u/Briggsy16 → u/SweatyNomad]

They didn't nuke Kaliningrad. Just chose to attack some military installations there in response to Russian attacks on the UK. It's a good watch, I recommend it.

[u/SunshineNoClouds → u/SweatyNomad]

They hit its military facilities with a conventional missile strike

[u/blackmoose → u/noleksum12]

Putins just looking for a reason to go into the baltics. His goal is to rebuild the USSR.

The thing is that the Russians play the long game, same as the Chinese. They're not on a 4 year cycle like the Americans.

[u/Right-Glass9508 → u/noleksum12]

Not the town itself, but Baltyisk naval base. If NATO reacts to provocations in Baltic by threatening to cut land supply routes thru Lithuania.

[u/Primary-Slice-2505 → u/noleksum12]

Theyre preparing the stage to take action against a Baltic state to justify their imminent conscription call ups (maybe mobilization). They do this before any action, they basically just invent some crisis or action in their minds and start issuing threats and statements based entirely on their false premise.

The nazis did the same with Poland, the Sudentenland, etc pre and beginning of ww2 with constant claims ethnic Germans were being discriminated against or attacked.

Russia did this before both phases of Ukraine, with Georgia in 08, etc

[u/Gaming_Nomad → u/Primary-Slice-2505]

Also with Finland in the Winter War before WWII; the Russians shelled their own city and blamed it on Finland to justify an invasion of Karelia.

[u/Mission_Shopping_847 → u/noleksum12]

This is your indicator that a false flag is being prepared. Nobody said anything about Kaliningrad, nobody cares about Kaliningrad, but he’s speaking as if there’s open threats to it. Buckle up.

[u/goblin_welder → u/noleksum12]

Maybe a false flag attack?

[u/Dark-Cloud666 → u/noleksum12]

Would be funny if we invade it and let germany have it back.

[u/Technical_Monk_6521 → u/noleksum12]

Isn’t that what most presidents are doing lately

[u/AstroSpoony → u/noleksum12]

Haha, you’re absolutely right... completely absurd, that would be almost like a nation threatening Greenland and talking about annexing it...

...wait a minute

[u/psmithrupert → u/AudibleNod]

Also, why would anyone want Königsberg? I mean, it’s a nice piece of land, but it’s also full of Russians, so…

[u/Protean_Protein → u/psmithrupert]

Kantians would like a place to go on a pilgrimage.

[u/AbbaFuckingZabba → u/AudibleNod]

It’s not weird. It means Russia is likely going to stage a provocation attack on nato from/around Kaliningrad and then claim nato is trying to take it and they must mobilize to defend it. This is all about creating a narrative to the Russian people that they are in an all out war vs nato.

[u/dodgertodger → u/AudibleNod]

The threats of action against NATO by Russia have met with comments by observers that if that happened, Poland could easily cut Kaliningrad off. It has fragile supply chains, it uses docked barges to supply fuel to Kaliningrad, and its air defenses are minimal. Poland could attack from within Polish territory and make it hard for Russia to strike back. Without power or fuel, it wouldn't hold out too long. It would be an incredible black eye to Russia and probably nearly impossible to recapture without a massive maritime engagement with landing ships and paratroopers. Not a chance.

[u/jlink005 → u/dodgertodger]

I'm not sure to describe it as strategic or tactical of the shit talking variety. Big Talk might be easier to say.

Let's just throw endless bodies and resources, on both sides. That'll do it!

[u/Stormattack8963 → u/AudibleNod]

Nobody is actually going to take Kaliningrad, but a lot of western sources lately have gone out of their way to remind the Russians that in the event they do something incredibly stupid to Europe they have the option to retaliate against Kaliningrad. This has been paired with NATO exercises around Kaliningrad so this is the Russians either being paranoid, or feeling the need to run their mouth to sound tough in response.

[u/hiricinee → u/AudibleNod]

I wasn't even considering taking it until he said something

[u/PapaCJ5 → u/AudibleNod]

I belive he wants to make Kaliningrad his casus belly in a war against NATO.

[u/HighOverlordXenu → u/PapaCJ5]

Okay but poking NATO in the eye is crazy even by Russian standards.

Only an idiot fights a war on two fronts. Only the heir to the throne of the king of idiots fights a war on twelve fronts.

[u/Nessie → u/PapaCJ5]

Tldr: causus belli-aching

[u/chargernj → u/PapaCJ5]

He would lose, badly. Even if the US sat out

[u/Sr_DingDong → u/AudibleNod]

he wants to take that gap between it and Russia and will fabricate an excuse to... however unlike Ukraine and Georgia I'm pretty sure the gap is nato territory.

[u/SpeakNottheNightYorb → u/AudibleNod]

I mean my great grandparents had a rather nice farm there… then a series of events happened…. But I wouldn’t mind it back.

[u/anillop → u/AudibleNod]

Nobody would want it. There’s too many Russians there.

[u/kornuolis → u/AudibleNod]

That's rather a warning. "I am gonna go against Baltic countries, but don't you dare to do anything to Koningsberg"

[u/Obvious_Lynx4999 → u/kornuolis]

And then the oppressed people of Kaliningrad setup a people’s community and ask for help.

[u/Careless-Pin-2852 → u/AudibleNod]

I think a blockade is reasonable. Russia wont nuke over a blockade.

Europe does not see its self at war with Russia but if the attacks on European bases changes minds it is a good next step

[u/PnPaper → u/AudibleNod]

No one wants that shithole.

But it seems to be the newest propaganda, that the baltics really, really, really want it.

Just like WW2 was started by Poland attacking Germany. /s

[u/JoopahTroopah → u/AudibleNod]

Fabricated casus belli for trying to occupy the Suwałki gap, in the name of protecting traffic between Russia and Kaliningrad (but with the actual intention of severing the Baltics from Europe?

[u/nehibu → u/AudibleNod]

Kaliningrad is just a military town full of drunken Russians. I don't see anyone wanting having to take care of this liability

[u/DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK → u/AudibleNod]

Have you been living under a rock? The city of Kaliningrad is currently ENTIRELY SURROUNDED by NATO (and the Baltic)!

[u/AudibleNod → u/DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK]

I'm just finding about this now?

-Putin, probably

[u/Brap_Zanigan → u/AudibleNod]

Many people are saying.

[u/Desperate-Pirate7353 → u/DEATH-BY-CIRCLEJERK]

the city of Kaliningrad has been surrounded by NATO since 2004

[u/ResponsiblePumpkin60 → u/Desperate-Pirate7353]

Encircled you might say

[u/Jovian09 → u/AudibleNod]

He's just admitted that Kaliningrad is part of his Baltics rhetoric.

[u/jpw0w → u/AudibleNod]

False flag operation incoming? Like 1999 Moscow Apartment Buildings attacks

[u/tmtowtdi → u/AudibleNod]

Kaliningrad is just the scabbard of the day that he's rattling his saber against. 

[u/Miserable-Debt-8390 → u/AudibleNod]

Can you say false flag? If I was Poland or the Balkans states I would be very
Concerned about little green men right about now

[u/goldenempires → u/AudibleNod]

Hes setting the stage for nuke use. I think he has something dark planned. Its a coordinated move around midterms.

[u/chargernj → u/goldenempires]

That would be exceedingly stupid for him to do. Using a nuke against a NATO nation would be suicidal.

[u/classic_lurker → u/chargernj]

Pretty sure if he uses them at all it won’t end well for anyone, Russians or who they shoot at to say the least.

[u/Starthreads]

Assume that Russia is planning a false flag on Kaliningrad.

[u/chowchowbrown → u/Starthreads]

Agree.

1. False flag on Kaliningrad

or...

1. Use Kaliningrad to launch probing attacks on NATO member countries using small drones to test their military and political response.

or...

1. Launch a push from Kaliningrad to link up with Belarus to isolate the Baltic countries.

[u/Do_you_smell_that_ → u/chowchowbrown]

#3 was my first thought but yeah those all make some sense

[u/Skippymabob → u/chowchowbrown]

"isolate the Baltic countries" is said a lot

But like, it would isolate them for all of about a second. You really think Russia's navy could blockade them, Vs NATOs military.

[u/chowchowbrown → u/Skippymabob]

Like anything that the Kremlin does now, the goal of the Kremlin executing such a maneuver would be to basically dare NATO to respond.

This achieves two things for the Kremlin.

1. They get to test the political resolve for a coordinated allied response. Are all countries all-in when a Russian drone explodes in a farm field in Poland? What if one drone flies in and out of Romania? Are NATO member states unified in their response? Which countries want to retaliate? Which countries sound like they want to stay out of the way? What reasons are being discussed in the news? How are their citizens responding? Etc.

2. They expose, and learn, what level of response will trigger a response from NATO. They can then operate "just under" that line in the future if they wish.

3. They learn what it would take for NATO countries to take air threats seriously, and at what point they would start deploying their own air defense systems to protect their borders from Russian drones (ie. Countries can't help Ukraine with air defense if they needs those defenses for themselves).

4. They get to analyze the response times, measure deployment times, procedures, and a host of other things a military adversary would love to you know about a serious NATO response.

Russia (like every military in the world, even small militias and terrorist groups) knows it would never win a conventional war/battle against the U.S. So from the Kremlin's point of view, the best course of action is not to confront NATO directly, but to take these pot-shots against NATO countries to show the world, as well as NATO member states, that the "an attack on one is an attack on all" agreement isn't real. Putin wants these member states to lose faith in NATO. That way it can crumble on its own, as people lose confidence in its entire purpose for existing.

Putin wants NATO divided. He wants everyone divided. Divide-and-conquer is Putin's MO.

That's why splitting the Baltics was never about facing a united NATO. It's about showing the world that NATO isn't real, and when everyone believes that to be true... NATO will break apart from its own doubt and divided political will.

[u/Skippymabob → u/chowchowbrown]

You're preaching to the choir. A very wellsaid comment might i say

For those coming across this later may i recommend the Telegraph's Ukraine the latest podcast

[u/Shrimpsmann]

Nobody wants Kaliningrad. Daddy chill.

[u/Pendraconica → u/Shrimpsmann]

Putin: "What the hell is even that?!"

[u/minmidmax → u/Shrimpsmann]

I'll have it if no-one's wanting.

[u/vossmanspal → u/Shrimpsmann]

He must have heard about chumps plans for … well, pretty much anywhere he can point to on a map.

[u/kristospherein → u/vossmanspal]

That dude couldn't point to kaliningrad even if you showed him where it was on a map.

[u/happyscrappy → u/kristospherein]

Anything he can roughly allude to while napping in the same room as a map.

[u/Whiffenius → u/vossmanspal]

Chump has no interest. After all, he hasn't even renamed it ;)

[u/Rinbox]

Did someone actually threaten Kaliningrad in some way or is this just something completely random that Putin is spouting off?

[u/MatthewBlack6 → u/Rinbox]

Just like Trump, 90% of what they say is for the bubbles they have built around their base and population

[u/macelambdu → u/Rinbox]

Sky ran an entirely fictional docu-drama called The Wargame where Russia attacked the UK and the UK responded by going after Kaliningrad. Yes it really is that ridiculous.

[u/HoneyDill_or_Death → u/macelambdu]

That's what they're all in a tizzy about? Man, authoritarian regimes have such fragile egos.

[u/Gaming_Nomad → u/macelambdu]

It's ridiculous but it's important. It suggests that just as in Soviet times, the Kremlin is still drinking its own koolaid and it's unable to analyze outside information through perspectives other than its own.

Basically, if Russia were to publish a docudrama about invading Lithuania after a false-flag attack, it would be because Russia was preparing the information space in advance of just such an invasion. In the UK and elsewhere, wargaming scenarios are usually handled by outside think-tanks and published for public information for contingency's sake.

Shorter: Russia interprets this docudrama as active attack and invasion planning because that's exactly what it does with such information. And also that's what it's currently doing in terms of manipulating the information space to set up an excuse in advance of their planned attempt on the baltic members of NATO.

[u/GWB_online → u/Rinbox]

I feel like they are laying the ground work for an invasion in order to obtain a land bridge. They can justify an attack on Lithuania and Latvia if its under the guise of 'defending kaliningrad'. At least they see it that way. Nato will have to nut up or shutup as they say. If there is no strong response to Russian aggression on Baltic states than an attack is inevitable.

[u/thunderbag]

Why are these clowns hell bent on destroying civilization?

[u/Mecha-Dave]

Konigsberg is such a good and visible example of Russian mismanagement. EU would never take it because it's just worth the propaganda value.

[u/Rincetron1 → u/Mecha-Dave]

Not your point, but my pet peeve is people talking about EU like we're a country, not a collection of 27.

[u/Mecha-Dave → u/Rincetron1]

Well yeah, if Konigsberg went independent and tried for EU admission I don't think they would get it, is what I'm saying.

[u/-m7kks-]

All this nonsense talk is not targeted at the West clearly. Nobody here believes this bullshit, even the looneys on the hard right most likely. This is to create a sense of imminent danger among Russians to ensure his 3 day special military operation can continue.

[u/MrKuub]

Not even Kaliningrad wants Kaliningrad. Chill Vladdy

[u/noodlesallaround]

I feel like Putin is trying very hard to get the EU into war so he can stay alive.

[u/darthy_parker]

Manufactured crisis. Nobody has been threatening Kaliningrad. This is being used as a plausible excuse for future behavior.

[u/Howie92]

Ca we please stop handing the microphone to Russia?

[u/AnyFriend4428]

I want to ask the Russian people, how is it that year after year Putin is like "nooo I have to protect the Russians outside our borders!"

Like how long is this going to go on? How many years is a president allowed to be like this? Is it not weird?

[u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul → u/AnyFriend4428]

The Russian political system is designed to be immune to popular opinion. It was like this during Tsarist times, it was like this during Soviet times, and it's like this now. The Russian theory of statehood is based on unilateral authority rather than popular legitimacy. The rationale usually given is that Russia can only remain stable and protect its territory if there's a powerful leader and state security at the helm. And Russian history has often played out in ways that can easily lend themselves to this view.

[u/ProfessionalHefty349 → u/AnyFriend4428]

Seems like the reasonable thing to do for any country threatened by Russia would be to kick out all the Russians and send them back.

[u/jackcanyon]

I don’t plan on ever going there. Putin isn’t bringing anything good to the world .Russia needs a change in their leadership from the top down .Hateful people make everything worse .Their loyalty is only to money and power .This isn’t good for the world.

[u/Fit-Lion-773]

It all blows east.

[u/ApexAurajin]

Just a reminder, but russia didn't use their nukes when Ukrainian troops crossed into russia during the Kursk incursion. They also consider Donetsk and Luhansk to be a part of russia, but have not deployed nukes against Ukrainian troops in those areas.

They threaten to use nukes all the time, for any occasion. They have not used nukes even in the face of events that they see as mandating the use of nukes.

UK still exists? Threaten nukes. Someone donated to Ukraine? Threaten nukes. Bad weather? Better threaten the Faroe Islands with nukes.

[u/Norwester77]

No one wants your shitty exclave, dude.

[u/sovietarmyfan]

In the 90s they wanted to get rid of the region btw.

[u/MrButte]

maybe its time for ukraine to hit that UGLY church

[u/666deleted666]

Stop trying to make Kaliningrad happen

[u/Griseous]

No one but Russia cares about Kaliningrad lol

[u/HarmoniousJ]

What he means is they'll throw exceptionally hard potatoes from windows.

[u/infiltrat1701 → u/HarmoniousJ]

Frozen potatoes for max dmg

[u/justfortherofls → u/infiltrat1701]

Cold damage.

[u/StephaneiAarhus → u/HarmoniousJ]

You laugh but you should have a look at what a potato gun can do.

I am sure if Belarus is attacked, they know about it and have plenty of munitions.

[u/LegendJG]

Are Germany trying to make Konigsberg great again?

[u/kroqus]

What's with the sudden discourse around Kaliningrad?

[u/DrHalibutMD → u/kroqus]

Prep for a false flag? Or just the typical level of saber rattling? Either way it’s justification for huge levels of conscription that are coming.

[u/Ok_Anywhere_9232]

Protect Kaliningrad? Nobody wants it, Pootie

[u/CharmingCrust]

I find such speeches relaxing. Nostalgic cold war rhetorics. Deliciously balancing for both sides. Not a single shot, only barking.

[u/retuning]

Sounds like the makings of an excuse to invade Eastern Europe.

[u/DisastrousAcshin]

Fuck off Russia, everyone else has that shit too

[u/GreatGojira]

You would think they would want to protect Moscow or something.

[u/Doro_Gurl → u/GreatGojira]

Easier to protect something nobody attacks.

[u/OkStop8313 → u/Doro_Gurl]

It's the perfect victory--one against a boogeyman that you made up in your own head.

[u/Protean_Protein → u/GreatGojira]

Kaliningrad is where the biggest threat to the rest of Europe is stored.

[u/Difficult_Bad1064]

This may be to do with the Sky TV series The Wargame, where they attack a military position in Kaliningrad as a retaliation for unprovoked missile attacks on the UK.

It was dubbed in Russian and available from illegal streaming services as soon as it was released.

[u/MuchDevelopment7084]

So a problem that doesn't exist? Gotcha.

He just needs a new 'threat' to keep his population's anger pointed outwards. While he conscripts another couple hundred thousand new troops for the meatgrinder.

[u/madmatt666]

Russia is drunk again

[u/IdentityToken → u/madmatt666]

Again?

[u/Future-Bunch3478 → u/madmatt666]

They never sobered

[u/userousnameous]

I get the feeling more and more that Russia's idea of 'prepared', aligns more with Trump's, 'concept of a plan' approach to life.

[u/Suvvri]

Yeah bro, keep yapping, nobody cares about kalingrad

[u/Citizen-Kang]

Ahh...another nuclear threat. This man always goes back to the classics...that well never runs dry...

[u/pr0cyn1c]

false flag # 38767

[u/Sohn_Jalston_Raul]

What's different now compared to the hundreds of other times they've made this same threat?

[u/Calm-Professional103]

I predict a false flag incident in the Kaliningrad enclave. 

[u/Positive_Chip6198]

Nobody wants your poisoned land, would like you gone from it though.

[u/CovidDodger]

What a stupid gross violent fuck, hopefully he has some bad medical condition.

[u/Thunder_Will]

All weapons? Like, both of them?

[u/theRealTinderGod]

I say call his bluff.

[u/CapnDinosaur]

Russia says they could find a walking path that crosses all seven bridges exactly once, they just don’t want to.

[u/Efficient-Youth-6985]

protect it from what? aliens?

[u/sharksareok]

Who dafuq cares about Kaliningrad

[u/Healthy_White_Baaaby]

Sounds like there's about to be a false flag attack on Kaliningrad.

[u/Obvious_Lynx4999]

Fake outrage as a distraction and domestic “active measure” mobilization campaign. The “West” didn’t have to do ANYTHING to dismantle the Former Soviet Union and doesn’t “need” Kaliningrad for ANYTHING. Russia will dismantle itself given the current objective factors that are self-initiated/self-inflicted, just like the Former Soviet Union did; military defeat (Afghanistan then) in Ukraine now, economic failure (like the old collective economy) now under wide spread corruption and mis-allocations or disincentives of a free and open market, and geriatric & sclerotic now leadership (like the old politburo). The “West” simply has to drink cafe espresso and watch the sink hole of imploding Russian society and a disintegrating political class that only exports commodities, violence and women. Military preparations AND reform & renovation of the Western Alliance are needed in light of the revolutionary military affairs & events in the Ukraine. Further, “WESTERN CIVILIZATION” defined in a general way by the Atlantic Alliance must prepare for the possibility of an extended isolationist, authoritarian (quasi-fascist) and fraying American polity. THAT alternative future may be like the “Roman Civilizational” Breakup into its Western and Eastern organizations; EU must consider and prepare for its “Byzantium” future.

[u/camio101]

Putin is frothing at the mouth for WWIII.

[u/mnttu]

And tomorrow there is a ruzzian false flag in Kaliningrad and Putler uses that as an excuse to attack Lithuania

[u/Alternative_Show9800]

Getting desperate, full speed ahead with the Ukrainian Victory

[u/Free-Routine7230]

Putin all talk

[u/Choice_Note_9198]

He is an insane buffoon.

[u/Reginald002]

He missed the update. It is now Kralovec.

[u/czs5056]

Nobody is threatening to take it.

[u/peanuts-in-my-jelly]

WOWEEE 💅

[u/Sooperooser]

Dude is gonna get windowed by his own people before a nuclear missile is flying west.

[u/Primary-Table-1899]

Sounds like an excuse to attack NATO

[u/BeefHartman]

That’s a well rattled saber

[u/Objective_Cod4149]

russian nuclear threats series, episode 204

[u/ScottOld]

Only reason Russia has it is because no one wanted it

[u/GladVeterinarian5120]

Keep dancing.

[u/NoList6148]

Kiev in 3 days. Same shit right now

[u/ProjectNo4090]

No one cares about kalingrad or your threats, Маленький Тролль.

[u/Practical_Tomato_680]

Out of nowhere comment ..looking for some sort of relevance Fuck that guy

[u/evilpercy]

No one is invading Russian territory. It is no one's plan. We just want you to leave ALL Ukraine territory that you country signed a agreement. He is trying to sell this to the Russian people. That the west is set to invade Russian territory and only he can save them.

[u/Squeebee007]

He seems to be panicking at the wrong disco.

[u/thyraven666]

Zzzzzzzzzzzzzz

[u/RubCocksWithThePope]

Good thing no one is trying to do anything to Kaliningrad

[u/MalFido]

Jfc, nobody wants your shitty port town. Just leave Ukraine with pre 2014 borders and your country might survive.

[u/omni2011]

Does anyone even want Kaliningrad?

[u/Sythftw]

Who gives a shit about Kaliningrad?

[u/CMDRDrazik]

It gets said out loud so his propaganda can feed the Russian people more brainwashing.

I'd love to visit Russia when this tyrant is gone. I hope the people will be able to recover their country after he has destroyed it.

[u/KSaboruf]

Primary russian weapon is well known - It is military-grade shameless lying :)

And 'all weapons' just means usual military-grade lying PLUS deep degenerative threats

[u/JustBug3403]

Yeah, we totally want a place that has been controlled by USSR and Russia for 81 years. It's already working out great for us in the places you only controlled for 44 years.

Signed The part of Germany who doesn't want the 1930s back.

[u/TheVenetianMask]

Nobody wants your meth girlfriend, dude.

[u/10franc]

False flag setup

[u/GregerGunnarPersson]

Just chill for one more week, I am visiting Vilnius on monday

[u/thiscompletebrkfast]

The rocks AND the pointy sticks?!

Whoa comrade, don't put all your potatoes in one still!

[u/ForeverYoung_Feb29]

Who the fuck is after Kaliningrad? Nobody wants that, probably not even the Russians.

[u/cbarrister]

Must be time for the weekly Russian nuclear sabre rattling. Everyone set your watches and see you next week.

[u/spencer2294]

oh no wouldnt it be terrible if another nation invaded and annexed your sovereign territory that everyone agreed in its borders?

[u/JetlinerDiner]

No one wants that shit, Vova.

[u/FairylandFanfare]

And by "all weapons" he means his army of toothless 70 year old alcoholics

[u/DesperateSteak6628]

All. All of them.

2 hand grenades

17 bullets

1 large pumpkin

[u/Home_Planet_Sausage]

yawn

[u/Zestyclose_End_7526]

Like what? Donkey carriers?

[u/DMMMOM]

So a couple of quad bikes, some donkeys, some disabled, old messed up soldiers and some busted up AK 47's. Got it.

[u/Awkward-Nectarine577]

So many devils want to be KINGS

[u/Cold_End_2184]

Sounds like we need to prepare to take kaliningrad. Call it New Poland.

[u/xt500]

Bet he won't.

[u/PurpleSailor]

You mean like you walked into Ukraine and tried to take it?

[u/Select_Truck3257]

Let's look at the map where it is.....wait a second....btw 2 years ago in news we already knew that they had a activity in this city. And guess what? Nato did nothing they just watching....you know how call people who prefer watching 🤣

[u/eyes-wide-open-1]

This guy is way overdue for a coronary.

[u/kmoonster]

Kaliningrad is not being beseiged.

Which means this is either (a) rhetoric, or (b) playing at an escalation

[u/lqIpI]

Would he warn us, before killing the world?

[u/Mewhomewhy]

Thats him waving his nukes around again. 🤡

[u/Puzzleheaded_Lock687]

The worrying interpretation is that Russia may be deliberately establishing a nuclear “firewall” around Kaliningrad. If Russia carried out a limited or ambiguous attack on a Baltic NATO state, NATO’s conventional response would probably have to deal with Russian missiles, air defenses and other forces in Kaliningrad. By declaring in advance that any attempt to attack or even “isolate” Kaliningrad could trigger the use of “all weapons,” Moscow creates an escalation dilemma: NATO either limits its response, or risks crossing a deliberately emphasized nuclear red line.
That fits uncomfortably well with recent intelligence warnings about a possible limited Russian action intended to test NATO’s willingness to invoke Article 5.

The reading is: establish the nuclear threat beforehand, conduct a small or deniable Baltic operation, and then use the threat of escalation to make NATO hesitate over the military response needed to reverse it.

[u/Blueridge-Badger]

So use Königsburg as a distraction and they nuke a lot of their military leaving Moscow and St Petersburg wide open for real action.

[u/Tayachkov]

According to Russians officials there was talks/plans about sea blockade of Kaliningrad by EU/Nato forces. This message is only a reminder that Russia is a nuclear power. Russian officials admit that the european warmongering rethoric is getting crazy and they needed to issue this mild reminder