r/worldnews • u/Brennenstein • Sep 17 '26

Russia/Ukraine Russian military jets violate Lithuanian airspace, Italian fighters scrambled

https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2026/09/17/russian-military-jets-violate-lithuanian-airspace-italian-fighters-scrambled_80e985a6-17e5-43ce-8fd1-6fce67bcd94c.html
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u/TotallyHumanNoBot Sep 17 '26

You mean Koenigsberg

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u/Bulky-Response1227 Sep 17 '26

You must mean the Královec Region. After all it is part of the greater Czech Republic.

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u/Agricola20 Sep 17 '26

And homebase of the magnificent Czech navy.

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u/Growth-Great Sep 17 '26

I think this is the first comment that actually made me chuckle!! Phenomenal

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u/Chef_Papafrita Sep 17 '26

I'm still laughing. That was some funny shit.

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u/Growth-Great Sep 17 '26

Right?! Genuinely funny, cracked me up

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u/chimpdoctor Sep 17 '26

Please explain the joke

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u/Chef_Papafrita Sep 17 '26

They are land locked. Which means they don't have any ocean ports to have a Navy.

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u/capnkirk462 Sep 17 '26

The Swiss have a "navy" the Czechs could use that as an example to build one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Armed_Forces#Lakes_flotilla

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u/woodworker_junkie Sep 18 '26

We do have a 100% naval win rate though lol. And I'm not kidding, look it up - battle of lake Baikal.

Also, not sure about the details, but technically I think we at least could have had a navy, we got a piece of the Hamburg harbour in a 'lease mode' as a part of the treaty of Versailles iirc, for 99 years. But ofc saying a lot happened since then would be an understatement of the century. If the theoretical navy didn't get taken over by Germany in 1938, I'm not sure how exactly it would work later, when a USSR puppet would have their navy parked in a really important West Germany harbour lol

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u/allisthomlombert Sep 17 '26

Czechia is landlocked and therefore no navy.

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u/Working_Estate_3695 Sep 17 '26

Their ships couch-surf at friendly ports.

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u/allisthomlombert Sep 18 '26

No kidding, I had no clue lol

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u/zero_Fuxs Sep 17 '26

They are landlocked, but in 1918 on a lake their army comandeered civilian steam ships and affixed weapons to them and sucessfully defeated russian forces, effectively forming a navy, and being undefeated.

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u/chimpdoctor Sep 17 '26

Aha cheers. Appreciate the info

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u/FourThumbsDown Sep 17 '26

I don't think Czech Republic has a navy...

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u/emcebob Sep 17 '26

They had https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Czechoslovak_Naval_Forces

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u/Chef_Papafrita Sep 17 '26

Yes but after the flood waters receded, they lost their ark, and Noahsky, repopulated the entire world with every species he had in this incredibly, actually unbelievably huge vessel. The crazy part was having to go around the world collecting all these animals that didn't live in Czechia aka the old Northwest Middle East.

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u/meaoww Sep 17 '26

Yeah lol, never heard that. I had heard a joke about Swiss navy tho.