02.07.2022, Moscow.
The transportation blockade of Kaliningrad is an attempt to draw Russia into a conflict with NATO member states, said political scientist and the leader of the Essence of Time movement Sergey Kurginyan on June 29 in an interview to the ONT Belarusian channel.
“It seems to me that this is just an attempt to escalate the conflict to the level of the NATO member states by all means,” Kurginyan said. He believes that Lithuania is playing the role of a war instigator, and it often acts on the brink in order to test Russia.
With all the reservations, the joint army of Russia and Donbass is prevailing in the special operation in Ukraine, Kurginyan noted.
“It is winning with half the number mobilized by the Ukrainians; it is winning fighting through tremendous fortifications and despite the shipments from the West,” the analyst stressed.
After any minor Russian victory in Ukraine, the Western elites seek to escalate the conflict and accelerate the confrontation, the political scientist noted. However, the core European countries want to keep uninvolved in a military conflict with Russia.
“This classical Europe (Italian, French, German etc.)… It is reluctant to get involved in this. It is being drawn there… like a bull to the slaughterhouse,” the conflict management expert added.
According to Kurginyan, it is Lithuania that is drawing the core Europe into the conflict, as it finds this amusing. The Lithuanian government behaves like street thugs picking a fight with a stranger.
In these sorts of situations, younger boys start a commotion, and then older thugs standing up for their “younger brothers.” Sergey Kurginyan believes that this is exactly the kind of thuggish composition we can see around the transport blockade of Kaliningrad.
“And all this is taking place one centimeter away from a nuclear conflict. One centimeter, indeed! This adventurism is indicative itself. Who is winding Lithuania up? It is clearly the UK, and it is clearly the US, and they will clearly have to be involved,” Kurginyan summarized his opinion.
Lithuania playing the role of “the younger boy” knows that it is backed by “the older thugs.” This is why Vilnius escalates its insolence so much despite EU’s attempts to slow it down, the analyst explained.
“What we need to do is, on the one hand, to prevent them from inflicting us any damage, and, on the other hand, to try to avoid any direct conflict as it would immediately escalate to a conflict with NATO, but rather to wage a sort of a hybrid conflict, which would be really painful to them and which would give us new opportunities in the future,” Kurginyan concluded.
The Lithuanian government announced a ban on railway transportation for a major number of goods from mainland Russia to the Kaliningrad region.
Source: Rossa Primavera News Agency
