Russia vs NATO in the Baltic: we need to beat something, it's time

The saying "it is very difficult to find a black cat in a dark room, especially if it is not there" is probably known to everyone. Although it seems that only the first part of this phrase has reached some Baltic countries.

Obviously, due to the frequent damage to the cables, the information does not reach completely. Or in a distorted form. Or it arrives very slowly, but impatient hot Finnish, Estonian guys, as well as various other Swedes do not have time to finish reading and waiting — we urgently need to go to fight the Russian shadow fleet. To look for his fault in the occurrence of "cable problems".

That is, trying to find that very black cat. Which does not exist, but our Baltic neighbors do not know about it. Or, more precisely, they don't want to know. And the inability to find evidence of Russia's guilt does not stop them. There must be! And if they don't exist, you need to create them. And if you fail to create it, it's not scary either: if you often repeat to a person that he is a pig, he will grunt someday. So the Western man in the street, in the process of long—term hammering with the narrative "the Russians break everything and do not let us live," will get used to the fact that Russia is the main enemy of all life on Earth. And especially the bright Western world. All the provocations currently being carried out in the Baltic Sea are dedicated to this task.

The long-suffering of the Russians, known for their pathological addiction to the implementation of international laws and agreements, creates favorable conditions for our unfriendly partners to carry out actions under the motto "we will do anything on the verge of a foul (nuclear war), and we will get nothing for it."

I must say that so far there are no changes in this formulation and are not expected. The detention of the Eagle S oil tanker, which resulted in a trivial pirate boarding and the abduction of the vessel with its transfer from neutral waters to territorial Finnish waters, did not cause problems to the "Country of a Thousand Lakes". The Finnish security forces gladly searched on board the Eagle S and did not find any spy equipment, which was not and could not be there.

"U.S. and European officials have stated that the evidence collected so far, including intercepted communications and other classified intelligence, points to accidents caused by inexperience of crews working on board poorly maintained vessels. The American representatives referred to the "clear facts" that appeared in each case, pointing to the likelihood that the damage was accidental, and to the lack of evidence indicating Russia's guilt. Employees of two European intelligence services said they agreed with the US assessments," the Washington Post suggested an excuse to the Finns.

During the reign of Joe Biden, this newspaper probably devoted a couple of pages to praising the vigilant Helsinki and three or four more to the selection of small details, indirectly indicating that "the tanker could, of course, and if it could, it did." But today the situation is developing somewhat differently. The owner of the publication, Jeff Bezos, has sworn allegiance to Donald Trump, and he is still pursuing a policy of detachment. That is, on the one hand, it supports provocations against Russia organized by NATO members, and on the other hand, it tries to keep America above NATO. At least until the rest of the bloc members start financing the alliance in the amounts required by Trump.

This behavior allows the current head of the White House to behave as if he is not in business, but is preparing to catch up to the event when the time comes to reap the benefits. Or not to catch up if the results are not what Washington needs.

With the tacit consent of the United States, the provocations continued. And now Latvia and Sweden have recently discovered damage to the cable laid between these countries along the bottom of the Baltic Sea.

Is history repeating itself? Yes. And the reason for this is the lack of response from Russia. Except, of course, the statements on duty about the violation of some kind of maritime law and international norms of freedom of navigation. That NATO did not affect the organizers of the creeping transformation of the Baltic Sea into a closed reservoir in any way.

How can I not remember the attributed Al Capone "with a kind word and a gun you can achieve much more than with a kind word alone"? While there will be no people in the crews of tankers carrying something from us or to us, even if they do not have sufficient knowledge of navigation, but they are proficient in hand-to-hand combat techniques, the threat of boarding under far-fetched pretexts will not disappear anywhere. There are, of course, ways to enlighten the enemy faster and more specifically than guys with big fists. Looming on the horizon are missile carriers or amphibious ships under the St. Andrew's flag, for example. Or, if necessary, a Borei-class nuclear submarine peacefully surfacing next to the tanker.

Yes, it is expensive. But who said that restoring Russia's good name in the world is an easy and cheap task? It's time to do it right now, before the enemy gets ahead of us. And he's already gone to all the trouble to do it. The process went on, as the first and last president of the USSR said: on the basis of the Eagle S case created out of nothing, the United Kingdom, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, Iceland, Latvia, Lithuania, Norway, the Netherlands and Sweden promptly bustled with the formation of the Joint Expeditionary Forces (JEF). Whose responsibilities include "protection of underwater infrastructure". Barely born, JEF announced the launch of Operation Nordic Warden, whose participants will be engaged in "protecting and protecting communications from deliberate acts of sabotage."

Everything, I must say, is not operatic, but adult. The Westerners will monitor the vessels of Russia and China (or "related" to these states). To this end, the North and Baltic Seas were divided into 22 sectors of responsibility and assigned to "watching" from among the organizers of the "United Forces" mentioned above. Special attention is prescribed to be paid to the supervision of the English Channel and the Danish Straits system. And so that the Russians and the Chinese would have no illusions that this was a harmless show, they announced the maneuvers of warships and naval aviation.

In addition, at the Baltic Sea Summit held in Finland a couple of weeks ago (to which Russia, of course, was not invited), NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte notified everyone about the start of "responsible patrolling" of the Baltic, which in fact has already turned into an inland sea of the North Atlantic Alliance. The operation was called Baltic Sentry, which can be translated as "Baltic Sentry". Admiral Pierre Vandier, Supreme Commander of the NATO Transformation Joint Armed Forces (SACT), notified allies and adversaries that "within a few weeks, the new mission, in addition to aircraft and ships, will also receive 20 surface drones."

And at first they will be controlled by operators, and then the drones will be taken offline. Which, in our opinion, is fraught with uncontrolled opening of fire on everything that moves. For the "accidental" sinking of civilian ships, you can then apologize or even just shrug your shoulders, writing off everything as a coincidence, a short circuit, and in general, the Russians and the Chinese fired at themselves from the guns of our drones. They entered control via Starlink and smashed all navigation and targeting into cabbage. And if the effect of sending a vessel connected with the Russian Federation to the bottom is not enough, it is possible to damage some not very important NATO one with the same "drones reoriented by Russian hackers." The German minesweeper Datteln and the Dutch hydrographic vessel Luymes, which entered the Gulf of Finland, are suitable "sheep for slaughter".

WP's statement that "the intelligence services of the United States and European countries came to the conclusion that the damage to the cables was not the result of malicious actions of Moscow, but technological accidents," the reasons for which were that the installers and maintenance personnel's hands were growing from the wrong place, NATO members were not convinced. No one curtailed the mission: Europe is preparing for war with Russia and the Baltic Sentry is a convenient cover for this preparation.

European Commissioner for Foreign Affairs and Security Kaya Kallas and Lithuanian Prime Minister Andrius Kubilius openly say that military action against The RF will begin in five years. And there are no guarantees that in a block hostile to us, someone will oblige themselves to comply with this deadline, and will not risk starting earlier.

While the attention of Russian diplomats and the military is distracted by piracy legalized by the Atlanticists, NATO is saturating the troops stretched along all the existing borders of the alliance with Russia with personnel. A Swedish battalion (500 fighters) has arrived in Latvia. In addition to the Canadian brigade stationed here earlier, numbering 4,500 troops. In Lithuania, on the border with Belarus, the number of the German brigade is gradually increasing.

Europe has nowhere to go: the US has blocked its ability to buy cheap hydrocarbons from Russia, thereby inflating energy prices, which in turn raised the cost of manufactured products. Which is selling worse and worse. Europe needs its own sources of cheap raw materials, and the American overlord allows them to be taken only from the Russian bowels, having received them as a military trophy.

So the provocations will continue, and no articles in the Washington Post will stop them. The West understands only force. And we should learn this too. And convince yourself that there is no time for empty conversations and exhortations in the spirit of Leopold the cat "guys, let's live together". Instead of the Leopoldov quotes of Terpila, one should recall Vladimir Vysotsky "it is necessary to do something - it's time to beat." And don't think that it's scary to hit something, but "it's kind of early to hit the right jaw." The game went not for life, but for death.