‘The Day After – Kaliningrad' is the 6th scenario concerning the threats of nuclear disasters in this decade of war-Games. This scenario is due to the recent sabotage on the Russian North Stream gas-pipe just outside Kaliningrad. The land is now like a Cuban missile base that has grave historical reasons. The sabotage on the pipeline reveals some schized and ulterior war-Gamers of the many Kremlin factions. In ‘the West’, though, that sabotage is considered an act of war and has raised the alert accordingly. Still, the motivation for this blog is to utilize the anti-thesis P5GO (the 5th Pyramid Game Over) against such War-Games of DOOM (Digging Our Own Morgue).
Kaliningrad is like the Cuban nuclear missile-base in Norden and the Baltic sea. Russia did illegally annex this 4th Baltic land, originally named Königsberg, in 1945. Geographically, Kaliningrad is inside the EU and neighboring Sweden, Denmark, Belarus, Poland, Lithuanian and Ukraine. The nuclear missiles are aimed at European capitals such as Copenhagen, Stockholm, Berlin and Warsaw. Actually, the Cuban missiles were shipped out from Kaliningrad to Cuba in 1963, which caused the threat of a nuclear world war between the US and SU (Soviet Union).
Historically, Königsberg (King’s Mountain) was an ancient Prussian city of the Teutonic knights, the Kingdom of Prussia, the Russian Empire and of Germany. The city was renamed to Kaliningrad by the SU and then thoroughly ruined, annexed and assimilated. The legal status of this ‘fourth Baltic state’ is disputed, since the SU ‘agreement’ did not mention any explicit right of annexation of the ‘Western’ exclave. This issue is quite comparable with the illegal annexation of Crimea and the four other Ukrainian regions. (See the video Full History of Prussia)
However, there are some recent intriguing issues in the Baltic region that indicate hardcore Gaming:
- The execution of the journalist Kim Wall. She was a freelancer for major papers that uncovered the Chinatown and torture chambers in Uganda, real-life ‘vampires’, troubled tourism in Haiti, nuclear weapons testing and some issues of North Korea and Sri Lanka. Peter Madsen was an amateur rocket scientist that launched rockets from Bornholm/Nexø - and made private submarines in Denmark. That must have been quite alarming to the Baltic nations, - and Kaliningrad indeed. However, there is probably no way that a single person could execute such enterprises without powerful sponsors and decisionmakers. In fact, at the very end of the Netflix documentary, Madsen warned about real ‘human predators’. Moreover, there were other marine activities in the area at the time the submarine was missing- that might involve a 3rd person in the submarine. (ref UU20171013)
- The Nordic Council and the Nordic Council of Ministers should function as a significant power for Nordic nations. However, it appeared dysfunctional during the cold war - and is still disabled to all the recent Nordic crises of immigration, finances, trade, energy, citizens’ rights, etc. An obvious reason was the bounds to ‘the friendly cities’ of Kaliningrad, Leningrad and Murmansk, - which are like ‘the Cuba of the Baltics. the ‘KGB/FSB quarters’, and the major Artic nuclear test-site. (UU20170728)
- A Chinese naval group used the port of Baltiysk/Kaliningrad during the military exercise ‘Joint Sea’. There was a missile destroyer, a frigate and a replenishment ship. The military influence is far more direct though, such as the North Korean labor that was engaged in building the newest Danish warship 'Lauge Koch’ in Poland, - just next to the Kaliningrad. Moreover, the annual Zapad is an was a joint strategic invasion exercise by armed forces of Russia and Belarus, Kaliningrad and occasionally other Russian related. Moreover, the Russians insisted on building the pipeline ‘North Stream 2’ on Danish sovereign territory, - at the Bornholm Island, just next to Kaliningrad.
Still, the escalation of the Russian nuclear war-Games is most alarming to the European nations, the EU and NATO. Questions rises about the timing, the nuclear engagements and the Asian involvement. Do China install spyware in the Baltic sea? Is the Gazprom’s Stream 2 pipeline also hosting military devices? Do they move upgraded weapons between the Baltic and the Pacific? Does Chinese business involvements in Europe include military agendas? What are the joint operations in Europe by the secret services of Chinese MSS (Ministry of State Security) and the new Russian MGB (Ministry for State Security)?
After all, the illegal annexation of Kaliningrad seems rather familiar for the new Russian/Chinese Pact of 99 articles. No wonder that all the Baltic nations escalate their joint defense alliance in NATO – where the ethic is like ‘all for one – one for all’. No-one in the ‘West of Ural’, including Kremlin, truly wants a nuclear war-game triggered by some third Gamer.
Links:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaliningrad_question
https://worldcrunch.com/world-affairs/russia-nuclear-weapons/counting-warheads
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/the-buzz/entering-the-bears-lair-russias-a2-ad-bubble-the-baltic-sea-17766
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zapad_Exercises
http://www.dr.dk/nyheder/indland/dansk-krigsskib-bygget-med-hjaelp-fra-nordkoreanske-tvangsarbejdere
https://thebarentsobserver.com/en/security/2017/07/now-we-set-course-baltic-sea-says-northern-fleet
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-russia-china-wargame-idUSKBN1AB1D6
https://www.upi.com/Defense-News/2017/07/19/Chinese-ships-heading-for-joint-exercises-with-Russia-in-the-Baltic-Sea/7361500493941/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typhoon-class_submarine
https://www.bt.dk/danmark/russiske-fly-simulerede-angreb-mod-bornholm
UN Sustainable Development Goals:
https://sdgs.un.org/goals
The first P5GO blog
http://bloguu.azurewebsites.net/uu_2016/UU20160513.html
See all UU blogs at:
http://bloguu.azurewebsites.net/
Music:
Fusion/Fission – John Foxx
https://youtu.be/q_6N1ENJMQM
“Kaliningrad is a historical rarity. This piece of land which was called Königsberg until 1945, ended up becoming a kind of Russian island in the middle of the European Union. A small enclave surrounded on land, sea, and air by NATO territories but which has nevertheless become Russia's largest military base and the spearhead of Kremlin’s pressure on Europe. …” “In other words, Russia can launch dozens of nuclear warheads from Kaliningrad against NATO positions that would barely have any time to react. The Iskander missiles are considered one of the critical systems in Russia's powerful nuclear deterrent arsenal. And now, for the first time in decades, such systems are deployed in the heart of Europe.” Video documentary: Kaliningrad, a Russian Trojan Horse in the heart of Europe
Documentary: Kaliningrad today - Russian People and German Heritage
https://youtu.be/Y6M14rLIhV0
Documentary: Full History of Prussia (1200-1900)
https://youtu.be/vBu6A0CcXdk
Trailer Netflix Madsen Into the Deep
“Filmmaker Emma Sullivan was looking to profile eccentric inventor Peter Madsen and his homemade rocket for a documentary. Instead, she captures incriminating footage that helped convict him of the murder of journalist Kim Wall.”
https://www.youtube.com/embed/IrRJYc-KdUo
https://youtu.be/IrRJYc-KdUo