• Minarble@aussie.zone
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      That’s not a bad idea! Throw in Transnitia, North Georgia, Kursk and baby you got a stew going!

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        The thing about Kaliningrad is that Russia would have no way of reinforcing it. If Ukraine occupied it, they could only move there via boat, since it is surrounded by NATO countries. That makes it incredibly easy to defend, especially if they move some sea and air drones over there.

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    I think everyone wants to be rid of Russia’s influence there, but I don’t think anyone actually wants to deal with the aftermath

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    I feel like Barbossa would be Germany cause he used to be the bad guy but now he’s cool.

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    The Germans have specifically ruled out doing East Prussia again, for the same reason a recovering alcoholic won’t touch a drop of wine. Which leaves two options: Králiveč, the Czech exclave with a beer pipeline to the mainland*, or the more mundane option of partitioning it somehow between Poland and Lithuania.

    * which should probably be named in honour of Immanuel Kant, a famous local reputed to have been a real pissant who was very rarely stable

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      Germans are still suffering from having to integrate another failed quasi-soviet state more than 30 years later, so you couldn’t pay them enough for taking Königsberg back.

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        As a german, I heartily agree. Poland and or Czechia, you are welcome to any or all parts of it. Just don’t fight over it :)

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        However, it would be somewhat entertaining to see the AfD melting down over getting it back. On the one hand, you have some of the old territory back, but on the other hand, there’s so many foreigners getting your nationality now…

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          Given that AfD are Putinists and a significant proportion of the foreigners are Russian military personnel, I suspect they wouldn’t have a huge problem with it.

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        Though having instantly given citizenship to thousands of Russians on the grounds that their ancestors around the time of Catherine the Great were German, and ending up with a monolingually Russophone voting bloc that gets its news from Russian state TV, did them no favours either. Jus sanguinis: not even once.