Ukraine, Russia, and the West

That was part of Gernany until WWII. I am
Not really sure why they did not give it to the Lithuanian SSR or why they drew the border with Poland exactly there.

My grandpa was born what is now an hours drive away from that border. Basically in the middle between Olsztyn and the Baltic Sea/

I’m sure it is somewhere in here

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It was part of Prussia, taken from Germany after WW2. It used to be connected when the Baltics were part of Soviet Union.

https://twitter.com/IntelCrab/status/1497320380968669199?t=K61Jehi-4TAefZb3SVKFrg&s=19

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They needed a port on the Baltic that was open year-round so they forcibly removed the Germans living there and brought in Russians

Little more than a Russian naval base following WWII. Americans must get that.

koenigsberg. germans came up with a riddle involving bridges, and bet the russians couldn’t solve it.

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Russia wanted to keep a Baltic port that didn’t freeze over.

https://twitter.com/morcos_pierre/status/1497293978932240389?s=21

From 2019… kind of eerie

Since Russia is the hotbed of illegal hacking in the world they should be.

Although I do think they are showing some restraint here for the reason listed. If something gets out of Ukraine and causes damage to a nato country it could trigger an article 5.

Pretty frequent explosions on one of the live streams. Also a British accent saying “Question: is it worth it?”

“Two minutes later [after the first nuke is launched] the American President is awoken from his sleep”.

Well they got that bit wrong.

Konigsberg is where Immanuel Kant is from. Had no idea it was incorporated into Russia. Always thought that it was in East Germany or Poland.

Is South America the safest place on Earth in a nuclear war?

Well, technically…

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It has got to be some remote island.

The President then holds an emergency press conference to warn Americans that several major cities will soon be leveled, but we must not retaliate because it’s more important to restore the norm of no nuclear war, and assures us that Putin will negotiate in good faith to resolve this conflict peacefully.

In the US, Yoopers could be fairly safe from a direct strike. I imagine the winter would be deadly though.

Unfortunately he wakes from his dream and nukes several Russian cities, the Russian military in Poland and the rest of Eastern Europe.

It’s minute 12 in the video and still the US is the only nuclear country not to have taken a nuclear strike.

Sounds eerily accurate.