The Polish Missile Crisis of 2009 brought to the forefront some transatlantic tensions among Poland, the Ukraine, the United States of America, and the Russian Federation. These tensions erupted and became exacerbated in 2008 when the Russian Federation invaded parts of the Republic of Georgia. In the immediate aftermath of the Georgian conflict, Poland rushed to sign a “Missile Defense Agreement” offered by the United States but that the Russian Federation vehemently opposed. The Russian Federation threatened that if Poland went forward with its plan to install American missiles along its border with Russia, then Russia would install its own missiles within its Baltic Fleet naval base in Kaliningrad, and aim these at bordering Poland. That would jeopardise the European Union Common Security and Defence Policy (CSDP).
Upon becoming the United States President, Barack H. Obama agreed secretly with the Russian Federation's president Dimitry A. Medvedev to unilaterally abandon its agreement with Poland. The next day, Medvedev went public with Obama's secret, humiliating Poland on the 70th anniversary to the day on which the Soviet Union invaded Poland, 17 September 1939, and evidencing that the White House had become a foreign policy kindergarten.
This paper proposes that the Russian Federation ought rightfully to retain the leases of its naval bases on the Crimean peninsula, but in return must vacate its occupation of Konigsberg (Kaliningrad). The reasons are parallel. Historically, the Crimea was Russian territory, but Konigsberg belonged at different times to Germany, Lithuania, Livonia, and Poland.