Sanctions.

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By GOD we are saved. Global thermonuclear war averted. Some damn fool thing in Lithuania setting off a conflagration no longer a threat.

Railroad si, roads no!

From zerohedge.com the article by BY TYLER DURDEN JUL 14, 2022.

"Lithuania To Allow Rail Transit Of Russian Goods After EU Reaches Compromise On Kaliningrad"

"It seems that saner minds are prevailing after ratcheting rhetoric coming from Moscow threateningly elevated Lithuania's effective blockade of all overland trade and goods to an 'act of war' by the West... as the European Union is now refusing to back the full extent of Lithuania's sanctions enforcement measures."

MY READING WAS THAT THERE NEVER WAS A TOTAL BLOCKADE OF KALININGRAD. JUST SANCTIONED ITEMS AS PASSING THROUGH LITHUANIA VIA RAILROAD TRANSPORT FORBIDDEN.

"The European Commission issued its legal guidance on the standoff Wednesday, which had over the past month resulted in some one million Russian citizens in the exclave remaining cut off from products brought by rail and road. 'The transit of sanctioned goods by road with Russian operators is not allowed under the EU measures. No such similar prohibition exists for rail transport,' the European Union executive said, specifying that Russian goods should continue to be allowed by train.

"'The Commission underlines the importance of monitoring the two-way trade flows between Russia and Kaliningrad … to ensure that sanctioned goods cannot enter the EU customs territory,' . . .  emphasizing further that the rail exception doesn't apply to weapons or munitions. The ban on transit still exits [sic] for freight brought by road, however."

See from sputniknews.com this article hundreds of Russian trucks their movement stymied moving to and fro Kaliningrad.

"There was the additional caveat to the ruling that EU trade sanctions would not apply as long as Russia's transport volumes do not exceed averages of the last three years . . . It remains that food and humanitarian goods were reportedly never subject to the sanctions, nor was travel of citizens back-and-forth."

Again, blockade of sanctioned items ONLY was the rule for rail transport. NEVER for ordinary items of life as essential to the  survival or well-being of the Russian citizen Kaliningrad. Unlimited amounts of food, medicine, fuel or all sorts could flow unimpeded and never was this denied.

coolbert.