Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned against NATO provocations in the Baltic Sea during her weekly press briefing yesterday. Any attempts to interfere with the established pattern of navigation in the Baltic Sea “will not end well,” she said, reported TASS. “The buildup of the NATO group in the area of active navigation will lead to a sharp increase in unintentional incidents, and the desire to put traffic flows under control will seriously affect international economic ties.”
According to Zakharova, even though members of the alliance seek to present this as a measure to ensure security, in fact they need it “solely to contain Russia in the region and to encumber transportation between Russian regions.”
Simplicius, in a Feb. 12 posting, wrote that “the biggest story slipping under the surface revolves around the escalating threats from the Baltics and their masters toward Russia as a new vector of provocation from the West.”
“In light of Ukraine’s proceeding collapse, the Empire badly needs to find a way to ‘self-fulfill’ the prophecy of Russia attacking Europe, in order to sell its own fraudulent historiography of the war, which underpins all the malice carried out against Russia to this point,” he continued. “Thus lies the need to ramp up provocations to force Russia into making some militarily aggressive action or attack on another neighboring country, to sell the whole narrative.”
