Fascist Russia cut undersea communications cables.
Nothing to see here. Just perfectly normal russian bottom trawling back and forth repeatedly just on top of the main fiber optic internet cable between Svalbard and the Norwegian mainland.
The sabotage of the #Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines in the #Baltic Sea shed new light on two incidents in the Norwegian Arctic involving the cutting of communication cables.
#Russia alarmed #NATO allies by proposing to unilaterally redraw its border in the #Baltic Sea, before withdrawing the bombshell text without offering an explanation.
#Russia has declared an intention to unilaterally extend its territorial waters on #Baltic sea in a way that collides with territorial waters of #Finland and #Lithuania. Russian Ministry of Defense (!) proposed to cancel the 1985 #USSR decision of demarcation of the sea borders and redraw them according to “new geographical references”, and then declare them “internal waters”.
Obviously, this looks very much like a poorly disguised attempt to create an strategic dilemma for #NATO by unilaterally opening a territorial dispute with two NATO members without really invading anyone yet. In case of NATO inaction the next step will be Russian actually enforcing their “new territorial waters” by threatening or sinking ships sailing to Finland and Lithuania. And if the inaction continues, the next step will be likely establishing “new geographical references” on one of the land borders of NATO countries.
Dolores is an utterly charming and beautiful soul and I feel very lucky that I got to spend so much time in her company for this article – the first ever about her in the English language, I believe!
Diggers and cement mixers will soon roll into #Estonia’s fields to give #Nato’s eastern border with #Russia a significant military upgrade. Hundreds of reinforced bunkers will be built as part of a new defensive line to protect the #Baltic states — anhttps://www.ft.com/content/2047a8d3-3b6b-485a-bcfa-f42ae8e352eed by extension the entire western defence alliance — from a Russian attack.
#France is building an alliance of countries open to potentially sending Western troops to #Ukraine — and in the process deepening its clash with a more cautious #Berlin.
French Foreign Minister Stéphane #Séjourné was in #Lithuania on Friday, where he met his #Baltic and Ukrainian counterparts to buttress the idea that foreign troops could end up helping Ukraine in areas like demining.
“Sweden joined NATO in Washington on Thursday, two years after Russia's invasion of Ukraine forced it to rethink its national security policy and to decide that support for the alliance was the Scandinavian nation's best guarantee of safety.”