Russian provocations of NATO, assumed to be to 'test their boundaries', are reaching fever pitch at the moment, according to various ladies like Ursula Von der Leyen and Kaja Kallas for example:
- Russia sends drones into Poland!
- Russian jets fly into Baltic States airspace!
- Russian ships are surveilling undersea cables under the Baltic and the English Channel!
- Russia holds 'war rehearsals' in Belarus!
- Russia behind airport cyber-attack!
You can bet your life that when the media is full of breathless stuff like this, that there is a concerted campaign being orchestrated by someone like MI6 to undermine something - and in this case it's obvious: peace talks between Russia and the Ukraine.
Europe is desperate for the war to continue otherwise where is all the economic stimulus going to come from if not from weapons production? 'Big Daddy' Trump isn't helping out anymore with his trade tariffs and making the EU pay for US weapons sent to Ukraine, and higher energy costs are not going to go away until dozens of new 'green' (ha,ha) nuclear power stations come on stream.
Even some seasoned Western commentators like Owen Matthews in The Spectator are starting to doubt the narrative:
The problem with the Kremlin testing the boundaries theory is that it doesn’t make much political or military sense. Poland’s relations with Ukraine are already souring, which is exactly how the Kremlin wants it.
Just days ago Polish President Karol Nawrocki said that he believed that Ukraine’s accession to Nato should be ‘postponed’ because of the risk of automatically involving allies in a conflict with Russia. He added that discussions about Ukraine’s EU membership were ‘premature’, stressing that such processes ‘require time and the consideration of economic factors.’
Decoded, Nawrocki fears that Poland’s agricultural sector will be undercut by cheap Ukrainian produce, and Kyiv will receive all the EU subsidies that currently go to Warsaw. Poland also recently ended most benefits payments to Ukrainian refugees settled in its territory.