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// THE CRUX Russia's heavily militarized exclave of Kaliningrad serves as a strategic outpost and hybrid warfare hub threatening NATO security along the Baltic Sea and the Suwałki Gap.

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00:15Finlandpassengers of two flights from Finland to Estonia
00:17Estoniatwo flights from Finland to Estonia in April
00:28Baltic Seaplanes and ships across the Baltic Sea
00:38Kaliningrad Oblastpointing to this little bit of Russia: Kaliningrad
00:57EuropeRussian dagger pointed against Europe
04:14Kaliningrad OblastThe Kaliningrad region is tiny. It's the most western
05:03Kaliningradcapital is also called Kaliningrad
05:23BaltiyskThe Baltic Fleet is headquartered here, in Baltiysk
07:17Chernyakhovsk Air BaseChernyakhovsk air base in 2022
08:32Brandenburg Gate Berlinlet's start with the Brandenburg Gate
08:39Brandenburg Gate Kaliningradthe one in Kaliningrad, in Russia
08:52East Prussiaan exclave, but it was East Prussia
08:55KönigsbergKönigsberg, a German city, was its capital
10:14Yaltathe Allies who had defeated Nazi Germany
10:25Germanydivided Europe and Germany
12:13Baltic StatesThe Baltic states to the north had been annexed
12:18PolandPoland in the south was also under Soviet control
15:39Suwałki GapThis is the Suwałki Gap
15:44LithuaniaLithuania and Poland are both NATO members
15:48BelarusThis is Belarus, Russia's closest ally
16:40LatviaLithuania, Latvia, and Estonia from the rest
18:41CrimeaRussia illegally annexed Ukraine's Crimean peninsula
18:53Kyivfull-scale invasion of the country in 2022
20:01SwedenFinland and Sweden joined the military alliance
20:33GotlandSweden's Gotland island is now NATO territory
20:47Baltic Seathis is Lake NATO