In my personal opinion, Lithuania’s so-called "blockade" of Kaliningrad is a mere demonstration ˗ to its European "lads" ˗ that blowing hot air is above wealth. Compassionate shrinks have long figured out that such behavior is intrinsic with people suffering from a deep-seated inferiority complex.

Lithuania’s historically troublesome European orientation vector has entailed nothing but population extinction, gross assimilation, confessional violence, "trimming" of cultural background and loss of identity as a whole.

Sadly, the country’s prosperity and invigoration were only visible while being part of the Soviet Union, when comrade Stalin and his successors managed to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear. Stalin ruined Poland geographically, evicted all the Poles from territories allotted to Lithuania, and the latter became virtually the only mono-ethnic republic of the USSR. Modernization, industrialization, cultural explosion and milk production growth were in the nature of things. While being part of the Soviet Union, the country's swelling population played basketball and starred in good movies. Oh, I nearly forgot to mention one thing. About Stalin, again. The tyrant had a soft spot for Lithuania and insisted that it became member of the United Nations along with USSR, Ukraine and Belarus. In order to prevent the Poles from messing around Vilna (now Vilnius). But the Anglo-Saxons set up a howl and put Lithuania on the stop list. Crying shame!

Today, having become member of the EU and NATO, Lithuania has quickly turned into a stub country. You be the judge. Its population only accounts for 2.8 million people and demonstrates a natural decline brought about by the outstripping mortality increase. The fertility factor is catastrophic – 1.2 children per woman, with some 87 men per 100 women. Lithuanian citizens are massively leaving for the UK and Ireland. Let's not speak evil of them: there are no prostitutes among them, only innocent nurses, babysitters and maids.

In such hellish conditions, acting Lithuanian politicians have to act like clowns with their anti-Russian reprises and gags ˗ a must-see to Brussels (and the entire world). The country entered the arena when it lashed out at China over Taiwan. Now, before and during the EU summit and ahead of the "historical" NATO summit, the Lithuanian elite stays in open view permanently.

Restricted cargo passage to Kaliningrad via the territory of Lithuania caused a slight shock among Russian diplomats as irrational. It goes without saying that Maria Zakharova and State Duma deputies frowned their brows and voiced all the necessary things. But the issue was eventually brushed away, and the sides decided to resolve it diplomatically, especially given that it is not worth one thin dime (the "gray zone", a blunder of officials), but Lithuania once again confirmed its vivid image of a European idiot. Alexander Lukashenko even said it had declared war on Russia. Actually, that was a journalistic clickbait, while the Belarusian head of state said something like: "It’s like declaring some kind of war!..".

Information for those fond of hard numbers: since June 18, Lithuanian railways have banned transit deliveries to the Kaliningrad region, as well as exports of EU-sanctioned goods. Apart from iron, steel, cement and glass containers, the list also includes a number of items vital for a productive European life: whole-bred horses, truffles and truffle products, cigars, perfumes and other frills.

Of course, Kaliningrad residents have always had a craving for everything European. Those commenting the 2020 Victory Parade were outraged by the lack of Russian-language signboards in the city’s the central street which our tanks passed along. But that’s a separate topic. The Kaliningrad region, Russia’s semi-enclave, has long ago turned into "a gun put at Europe, the West / NATO / the EU" (underline as appropriate). The sprawling military force (including Iskander battallions capable of carrying nuclear warheads and reaching Berlin), is certainly prepared for blockades and other hardships of war or political cataclysms. Among other things, the region has created redundant autonomous energy capacities, established sea logistics routes, and even built a relevant fleet, which so far stands idly by.

As a matter of fact, Kaliningrad is not exactly interlinked with Lithuania in macroeconomic terms. Their moderate trade turnover accounts for $263 million, while that with South Korea reaches as much as $1.28 billion (as of 2020). Lithuania mainly purchases agricultural products and sells metal goods. No matter what they say, at the "mundane" level Kaliningrad and Lithuania are normal, maybe even showcase neighbors united by advanced semi-criminal microeconomics. People get by in the world and even get richer jointly. It is Lithuanian, not German flow of private investment, albeit minor, that comes to the region. So, they could have lived happily forever after…

But there's one hitch, though. Lithuanian political clowns violated the rules of the genre, and it goes beyond a joke. The hard-bitten Kommersant newspaper scratches its head: "There is something strange about the transportation ban of EU-sanctioned goods through the territory of Lithuania to and from the Kaliningrad region. In the last few days, it has emerged that Brussels and Vilnius see the situation in different ways." The great and terrible EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Josep Borrel himself said the following: "The situation with Kaliningrad is not a blockade. We don't want to block traffic between Kaliningrad and Russia, but at the same time we need control to prevent circumvention of sanctions imposed by the EU." When translated from European into Russian, this means: hell, damn Vilnius, it will smash all the pots in our European house! The Kaliningrad crisis may escalate, which no one seeks, but Vilnius has already taken the bit in its teeth. Lithuanian President Gitanas Nauseda claimed in social media that his country would never make any concessions to Russia as regards the transit issue. European journalists are annoyed about Lithuanians posing as the key anti-Russian force in the European Union. The Kremlin declares itself assertive, and creative newsmaker businessmen say Russia may well refuse to recognize Lithuania’s existing state borders. Here is the quote: "This does not certainly imply a comeback of the era of Ivan III, but the signal is hardly a favorable one."

Lithuanians have a proverb: A distant relative deserves lifelong love, a close one is a plague. Why do Western Russians, driven by their affinity for the Americans and the entire Anglo-Saxon world, give a headache to us Eastern Russians? Not even a headache, but small nasty tricks. You are growing too shallow, gentlemen!