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.

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@lemmy.worldEnglish
    254·
    4 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
      175·
      4 months ago

      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@lemmy.worldEnglish
        9·
        4 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.

        • jol@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
          1·
          4 months ago

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

      • 5714@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        189·
        4 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.

      • vxx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        5·
        4 months ago

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

    • azvasKvklenko@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      147·
      4 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@lemmy.worldEnglish
          43·
          4 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.

      • Lad@reddthat.comEnglish
        84·
        4 months ago

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