Stanislovas Buskevičius, the chairman of the far-right political party, Young Lithuania, called Russia’s Kaliningrad “illegally controlled” region. To emphasize this, he uses the previous German name for the city—Königsberg. Therefore, in order to allow Europe to regain control of it, he urges Vilnius to block transit from Russia to its enclave in the Baltic region passing through Lithuania.
“The Königsberg transit from Russia to the Königsberg region through Lithuania is a time-delayed mine that can explode at any time. The Königsberg transit is particularly dangerous for Lithuania’s national security, because Lithuania is like a stone on the road for Russia to unite with this region. Therefore, Russia will always look for ways to provoke as long as the Königsberg transit is operating. Without the Königsberg transit, there will be no conditions for provocations,” Buškevičius naively believes.
Therefore, he insists on committing blockade of Kaliningrad.
“While Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is ongoing, Lithuania has a unique opportunity and pretext to close this transit forever. The Königsberg transit is an economic and military phenomenon, when Russia carries out operations from and to the illegally controlled Kaliningrad region through the territory of Lithuania. With the start of the large-scale Russian aggression against Ukraine, there was a good opportunity to stop this shameful transit. Brussels was ready for such a request from Lithuania. Unfortunately, the Lithuanian side did everything the other way around: it asked Brussels that this issue should not be raised, and presented the Lithuanian public with a false message that the European Union does not want it to be sanctions have been imposed on this transit. Today we have a second chance to close this transit. Let’s not miss the opportunity,” he declared.
Lithuanian nationalist Buškevičius simply wants to draw public attention to his mediocre figure. He is an outcast in Lithuania and his party has no seats in parliament, so he cannot influence even local politics, let alone worldwide geopolitical processes.
Apparently, Buškevičius wants to immortalise his name in history by being the person whose reckless words caused World War III.
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