UPDATED 11:04 AM EDT JULY 18 -- MADNESS! US Military Commander Reveals NATO Plan to Conquer Russia's Kaliningrad

The Commander of U.S. Army Europe and Africa (USAREUR-AF), Gen. Christopher T. Donahue, stated recently that NATO has developed a plan to capture Russia's heavily-fortified exclave of Kaliningrad “in a timeframe that is unheard of” in case of a full-scale conflict with Russia.

Planning for such an operation follows the implementation of a new allied strategy known as the “Eastern Flank Deterrence Line”, which focuses on bolstering land forces, integrating defense production, and deploying standardized digital systems and launch platforms for rapid battlefield coordination within NATO. 

Further speaking about the new strategy, General Donahue stated, “The land domain is not becoming less important, it's becoming more important. You can now take down anti-access, area-denial bubbles from the ground. You can now take over sea from the ground. All of those things we are watching happen in Ukraine.”

According to Donahue, the U.S. Armed Forces and NATO allies possess the capability to rapidly seize Kaliningrad.  The American general noted that Kaliningrad is approximately 75 kilometers wide and is entirely surrounded by NATO member states — “There is absolutely no reason why we cannot dismantle Russia’s A2AD (Anti-Access/Area Denial) zone from the ground faster than ever before. We’ve already planned for this and developed the necessary capabilities.”

Hal Turner Snap Analysis

This is madness.  Utter fantasy.  Complete futility.   Why?  Because General Donahue's perception of NATO does not seem to match the actual reality.    In my estimation, NATO's actual reality, is more like this:

Face the facts:  Europe is broke. It's a fight just to get them to spend five percent of GDP on their own defense.

Europe doesn't have the actual manpower.

Europe has given most of its weapons and ammunition to Ukraine.

So all of it would fall upon AMERICAN troops.

Given that reality, one wonders if he's planning on taking Kaliningrad as fast as he lost Kabul Airport?

Here's how his plan ends:

Absolute madness from an absolute madman.

He damn well knows how this "plan" would end. pic.twitter.com/8b2G2vxMqm

— CastleComedian (@CastleComedian) July 17, 2025

No thanks.

UPDATE 11:04 AM EDT FRIDAY, JULY 18 --

The Russian State Duma just threatened the American general (above) with Russia's nuclear doctrine. 

"An attack on the Kaliningrad region would mean an attack on the Russian Federation with all the envisaged retaliatory measures, including new versions of the military and nuclear doctrine of the Russian Federation" said Leonid Slutsky, head of the State Duma Committee on International Affairs.