RIGA, December 23. /NEWSBALTIC/. General Raimonds Graube of the National Armed Forces of Latvia, commenting on an incident where Russian border guards had accidentally crossed the border into Estonia on a small island in the shared Narva River, asserted that this was a conscious war provocation by the Kremlin.
“I believe that this ‘walk’ was a Russian provocation. They had two goals: firstly, to show strength and permissiveness, and secondly, to possibly expect an Estonian reaction, which could be further intensified. Such a complex event. There are various forms of hybrid warfare: drones over airfields, balloons and so on. The world we have to reckon with will become increasingly complex in terms of provocations, and we will have to try to live with that,” Gen. Graube declared.
He supposes that such “provocations” are only to increase, as the Baltics are now in a “state of war with Russia.”
“The forms can be different—from small ‘events’ to fires and explosions. After all, we are in a state of war today. Russia is in a state of hybrid warfare with the Western world. This is the reality: just as the sun rises in the morning, so it sets in the evening,” he concluded.
NEWSBALTIC thinks that if Russia really wanted to launch a military campaign against the Baltics, it could find more effective ways to destabilise Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania than “balloons” and border guards on a small uninhabited island. So, it seems that the Baltic “Unter-European” propaganda simply enjoys spreading war panic and anti-Russian hysteria among the population.
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