The electricity grid operators of the three Baltic countries on Tuesday officially notified Russia and Belarus that they will exit a 2001 agreement that has kept Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania connected to an electricity transmission system controlled by Moscow.

  • @somethingsnappy
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    212 months ago

    That is an interesting thought exercise. Would they really be cut off, and what would the impacts look like? I don’t know anything about Kaliningrad internal sustainability, but could guess it’s… not good. Time to annex?

    • @Siegfried
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      Unless you are proposing a genocide (which I hope not), Königsberg is full of russians, which I doubt many countries would want to deal with right now.

      It is (or it was) the major military seaport in the baltic… and we are speaking about russia. They most likely generate their own power.

      On the long run, i think it should be annexed by the EU as a common land for the whole union.

      Edit: Just checked, they mainly produce energy with gasoil and are apparently currently importing energy from EU to satisfy internal demand. They also have a nuclear power plant of 2,34 MW (2 VVER) under construction. They built it under the idea of producing energy to export but as they failed to find buyers, construcción was halt.

      • @Plopp
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        102 months ago

        On the long run, i think it should be annexed by the EU as a common land for the whole union

        What about we turn it into a great nudist LGBTQ+ friendly resort? With rainbows and unicorns and blahajs and what not.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          32 months ago

          Beautiful idea in theory, but the deeply conservative domestic residents might not appreciate it.

        • @[email protected]
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          12 months ago

          It’s the best time to start. The authorities are probably too busy to chance down some queers at the beach.

      • @[email protected]
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        92 months ago

        Kaliningrad is not called Königsberg anymore. There was a war over this.

        On the long run, I think it should be annexed by the EU.

        This is imperialism. IMO, the people of the Oblast Kaliningrad should be able to decide for themselves since the Russian Federation is de jure a federation. Once independent, Kaliningrad would be able to go through EU’s process of entry into the union.

        I don’t see this happening anytime soon, because Russia is de facto neither a federation nor a democracy and I assume the people of Kaliningrad do not have the political will to be independent or part of the EU at the moment.

        • Lad
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          52 months ago

          People casually calling for the ethnic cleansing of Russians from a Russian Oblast and annexation of the territory is fucked up.

          Russia’s crimes in Ukraine don’t make it okay for us to become completely deranged and want to forcibly remove thousands upon thousands of people from a region.

          • @Masshuru
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            42 months ago

            Except…. No one in this messaging chain called for ethnic cleansing, just annexation. So…. maybe don’t make stuff up?

      • @vxx
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        2 months ago

        2,34MW seems pretty low for a nuclear power plant. For comparison, the smallest nuclear plant in the US produces 568MW

    • @[email protected]
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      82 months ago

      As a Pole, I want Kaliningrad to be renamed to Królewiec (or Kralovec for that matter), all Russians deported and the land split evenly for Czechs and Slovaks so that they finally get their sea access.

        • @UnderpantsWeevil
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          22 months ago

          As Europe returns to it’s fascist roots, I’m afraid this sentiment is going to steadily increase in popularity.

          Strap in for another 30 Years War.

      • @LANIK2000
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        52 months ago

        Hell yea brother! All aboard the Královec express! :D

      • Lad
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        42 months ago

        Ethnically cleanse Russians from Kaliningrad, annex the territory and fill it with ethnic Czechs and Slovaks. Not fascistic at all…