Russia is talking big again. This time, they’re making noise about Kaliningrad.
Kaliningrad is a Baltic Sea port city, a detached enclave of Russia surrounded by Poland and Lithuania, both of which are members of NATO. Formerly known as Königsberg until after World War 2, Kaliningrad is seen by Russia as a vulnerable spot, as they have no uncontested land corridor to defend the port.
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Now, with the NATO nations ramping up defense spending, Russia is playing up any attack on Kaliningrad as provoking World War 3.
Russian officials on Friday clapped back at a recently announced NATO deterrence plan that looks to unite the alliance’s ground response capabilities, and has Moscow particularly worried about the vulnerabilities posed by its highly militarized exclave – Kaliningrad.
Warnings rang out from the halls of the Kremlin as one official warned that a deterrence strategy announced this week by U.S. Army Europe and