By Michael F. Duggan
In recent days, there have been reports of rockets landing in Russia. Lithuania has now said that it would deny Russian overland access to its Baltic enclave, Kaliningrad, in essence, denying Russia access to its own territory. Russia has declared that it would respond (it would be ironic if Russia implemented a strategy modeled on the Berlin Airlift to resupply this territory).
When I observed to a friend that there are now multiple avenues for a possible catastrophic escalation between NATO and Russia, he replied “Possible escalation? The real question is how can it not escalate?”