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Posted on 05/15/2025 6:23:27 AM PDT by mac_truck
TALLINN/ANTALYA, Turkey, May 15 (Reuters) - Estonia said on Thursday that Moscow had briefly sent a fighter jet into NATO airspace over the Baltic Sea during an attempt to stop a Russian-bound oil tanker thought to be part of a "shadow fleet" defying Western sanctions on Moscow.
Russia, which regards sanctions as a malign attempt to crush its economy, says all its ships have free passage in the Baltic and any attempt to stop them is dangerous. Estonia's navy said the unflagged Jaguar ship, which went onto a UK sanctions list last week, refused to cooperate when asked to stop and was then escorted to Russian waters.
"The Russian Federation sent a fighter jet to check the situation, and this fighter jet violated NATO territory for close to one minute," Estonian Foreign Minister Margus Tsahkna told reporters in Turkey ahead of a meeting of foreign ministers from the transatlantic military alliance. "(The) Russian Federation is ready to protect the 'shadow fleet'... The situation is really serious," Tsahkna added.
Western nations say Moscow is using a "shadow fleet" of more than 100 ships to dodge sanctions that President Vladimir Putin views as a part of a campaign to quash its global influence.
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“Baltic pirates find out Russia isn’t playing games.”
No kidding, and I suspect the Russian jet had Big-Boy Weapons on it too. If Estonia insists on ‘getting cute’ with Trump running the US, Europe will likely be on their own to deal with Russia, and only the most hardcore Neocons would think that Europe has a chance at getting their way.
The Russian hating Baltic states plus Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland want escalation in their region including a blockade of the Russian territory of Kaliningrad in their region.
But one recalls that Estonia's ex-prime minister is now the EU's High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy. So very like the other EU 'women' ready for someone else to march into war.
If a greater war breaks out, it will be girl's night out....
“Russia isn’t playing games”
Close to one minute. That will show them.
Estonia crying to NATO about airspace violations while it attempts to commandeer a ship traveling in international waters is absurd.
Europe is a clown show.
NATO is dead. Why should US citizens go fight in yet another corrupted EU boondoggle?
To think we can block the greatest nuclear power in the world from having access to the seas is RETARDED AT BEST.
Women’s club running the show. Be afraid, be very afraid.
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Excellent, can’t stop laughing. Nothing good ever comes from a pack of unelected, corrupted, bitter old woman in positions of leadership.
The “authorities” in Brussels must be obeyed or else they will, they will, uh, hmm, do something, maybe.
But it’s part of the “shadow fleet”! We can’t allow the world order to be upset by some ship owner using other than Euroweenie ship insurance! We’ve got to stop the Russians now or they’ll be coming after Flo and Jake from State Farm next.
Wars have started for less.
How would we react to another country messing with our ships...
If America don’t want to help us, we will do something that forces America to help us
ping
Where is the Pueblo these days?
>> The Russian hating Baltic states plus Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Poland
For many of those people, being rule by the Russian Empire and then the USSR had something to do with it.
The only Russian that Finns remembered positively is Tsar Alexander II.
And the rest? The same imperial bully, whether they wear a 16 century Muscovite kaftanm a an Imperial officer’s coat, or a Red Army uniform.
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