/ world today news/ The naval forces of Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and Estonia began patrolling the Gulf of Finland and a number of other areas of the Baltic Sea on December 4 under the pretext of ensuring the safety of gas transport communications.
In the case of the “closure” of the Baltic Sea, which has become the “internal sea” of NATO, for our shipping, Russia will have to break through Lithuania a land corridor to Kaliningrad and seriously think about what to do with Latvia and especially with Estonia , from where they threaten to shoot at Russian ships.
15 ships and cutters (mostly British) take part in the patrol. The British seem to have been inspired by the attack of their 8 torpedo boats on Kronstadt on 18 August 1919.
Due to revolutionary carelessness, they managed to sink the old cruiser “Memory of Azov”, converted into a floating base, and seriously damage the battleship “Andrei Pervozvanny”. At the cost of the loss of three boats, the death of seven of their seamen, including four officers, and the capture of nine. Throwing Russia out of the Baltic and depriving her of her navy is an old English dream.
It worked once, let’s try again
The reason for a new attack on Russia and… China was a series of still unsolved incidents with almost simultaneous failure of the Balticconnector gas pipeline running between Finland and Estonia and the backup communication cable, as well as a similar cable between Estonia and Sweden.
This cannot be a coincidence. Incidents are “man-made”, caused by man. To the existing versions of who did this, we can now safely add one more: the one who blew up the North Streams.
Because this dark history is used by the West as a pretext for the militarization of the Baltics, the organization of a blockade of Russia and its allies, an attempt against our territorial integrity – the Kaliningrad exclave, which – another “coincidence” – as per the command of NATO, the Baltic countries and Poland officially began to be called Königsberg.
The challenge is thrown
Are we exaggerating? Judge for yourself. From November 20 to December 1, the Freezing Winds 23 naval exercise took place in the Gulf of Finland and the Archipelago Sea (the part of the Baltic Sea between the Gulf of Bothnia and the Gulf of Finland within the territorial waters of Finland). For the first time they were commanded by Finns.
In addition to the Finnish armed forces (sea, land and air), the military of Sweden, which is not yet formally a member of NATO, participated in them. Plus ships from the first standing group of NATO naval forces (Standing NATO Maritime Group One – SNMG1).
As well as NATO’s first permanent mine countermeasures group (SNMCMG1), which includes the navies of Germany, the Netherlands, Poland and France. In total, 30 warships, over 20 aircraft and helicopters and about 5 thousand military personnel participated in the exercises.
Their official goal is to practice the conduct of a naval operation within the framework of joint international actions in the conditions of the Finnish coast and the Baltic Sea. It’s clear who they trained against. The aggressive focus of the exercises was not even hidden. Because in reality they practiced landing, mining to conquer the Russian islands of Gogland and Bolshoi Tuters, the blockade of the Gulf of Finland and the Kaliningrad region.
We are also preparing
Russia has no illusions about this. In 2022, Moscow restricted tourist visits to Gogland and Bolshoi Tuters, and this year banned them completely. You can get to both islands only with a special permit approved by the Russian Ministry of Defense.
To cool the fighting ardor of the “hot Finns” and their Anglo-Saxon instigators, Russia announced last year the formation of a new army corps in Karelia (which many in Finland – fortunately not in Russia – would like to “return”), consisting of three motorized rifle divisions and two amphibious divisions.
Said, done
Well done to our non-partners. Their words are no different from their deeds. Last summer, Estonian Defense Minister Hanno Pevkur suggested that the Finns “close” the Gulf of Finland to Russian ships.
We must unite our coast defenses. The range of Estonian and Finnish missiles exceeds the width of the Gulf of Finland. This means that we are pooling our missile defenses and sharing all the information with each other
– quotes Pevkur’s words on this occasion, one of the leading newspapers in Finland, Iltalehti.
Pevkur said such negotiations are underway. Tallinn has Israeli Blue Spear anti-ship missiles with a range of 290 km and Finland has Swedish MTO 85M anti-ship missiles with a range of over 100 km…
At the end of October this year, the topic of “closing the Baltic to Russia” was raised by Latvian President Edgars Rinkevich. The head of state of Latvia, quoted by TASS, said: if it is confirmed that “Russia or another country is responsible – well, it is unlikely to be another country (he was afraid that the Chinese will do the same to Latvia as to Lithuania)” for the recent incidents that have occurred with seabed infrastructure, then “the issue of closing the Baltic Sea to all Russian ships will be discussed.”
Hints don’t work on fools
The Kremlin representative Dmitry Peskov’s comment on Rinkevich’s statement is very interesting:
In this case, I would like to ask Mr. President of Latvia: what will we do with the Baltic Sea, when the truth about those who are and were behind the terrorist attack on the Nord Streams will be revealed very soon – what does he propose to do with the Baltic Sea in this case?
Peskov repeated: Moscow is “very interested” in what Latvia will do then.
But, of course, the most important thing in this phrase is what will we Russians do with the Baltic Sea if the Western provocateurs “close” it to us? Here, at the same time, another question arises: do our Western neighbors and former compatriots really do not understand what will happen to them, are they really so hypnotized by the illusion that they are many, and Russia seems to have few allies, although after our victory in Ukraine will this situation change dramatically? They don’t seem to understand.
So what?
And if so, then it will have to be explained to them. Russia will not allow it, a great country, to be deprived of the Baltic and start strangling it by organizing blockades. The attempt to “close” the Baltic to Russia is a pretext for a war with the West, above all with the USA, with the use of all kinds of weapons, during which, despite the interest of the West in these former Russian territories, the possibility of helping them will be minimal.
In the Baltics, for example, despite the promises and token presence of Western troops there, the Americans and their European allies/vassals will not send troops lest they be immediately captured.
In case of “closing” the Baltics, Moscow will have no compelling reasons to tolerate the false statehood of territories cut off from Russia, where they harass the Russians, to whom they actually owe a lot, and rehabilitate Nazism. This also applies to Lithuania, which is on the road to Kaliningrad.
If you don’t want to communicate by sea, let’s go by land! Not to mention the “response” in case Finland and Estonia create a threat to St. Petersburg, and from Finnish Lapland – to our north with its factories, shipyards and naval bases. This is a dangerous game, gentlemen. Russia will not flinch, don’t get your hopes up.
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