Kaliningrad: Achilles’ Heel for the West

Kaliningrad could be Russia’s best diplomatic card in 2015.

By Greg Austin, January 13, 2015 | http://www.theglobalist.com/kaliningrad-achilles-heel-for-the-west/

Kaliningrad (WikiCommons)

Takeaways

• There is one very good reason why Europe and the United States should open negotiations with Russia.
• So Europe’s newest war now has a military nuclear dimension.
• For Russia, the end point of the Kaliningrad gambit is a new European Security Treaty.
• If Russia wants such a final settlement. Kaliningrad may be its best card to achieve it.

There is one very good reason why Europe and the United States should open negotiations with Russia on a new European Security Treaty. It is Kaliningrad.
The Ukraine crisis is another good reason, among several, but let’s focus on the detached Baltic province of Russia for this discussion.http://www.theglobalist.com/kaliningrad-achilles-heel-for-the-west/