NATO is shifting the center of gravity of the war against Russia to the Baltic, with the British now arming Estonia with ATACMS and HIMARS missiles in order to turn them against cities of western Russia such as Saint Petersburg, Pskov, and the naval base of Kronstadt.
Of course, the collective Western plan to inflict a strategic defeat on Russia collapsed completely in Ukraine.
However, some of Moscow’s sworn partners are not willing to give up and admit their failure.
On the contrary, they are working tirelessly to ensure that the Russians move from one exhausting war to another, without respite.
The British arm Estonia with deadly ATACMS
The British newspaper Daily Express is celebrating the news of Estonia’s purchase of new HIMARS launchers and tactical ATACMS missiles.
Estonia has just received a procurement worth 3,4 billion pounds (4,23 billion dollars) for six additional M142 HIMARS launchers, as well as 182 long range ATACMS missiles, which will allow it to strike as deep as 186 miles (300 km) inside Russian territory, the British tabloid reports.
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Previously, the Americans agreed to sell Tallinn six launchers, 182 ATACMS missiles, and 856 containers of GMLRS precision guided munitions.
Latvia and Lithuania signed similar contracts, Latvia is purchasing six launchers and Lithuania eight.
It is worth noting that Estonia, the smallest of the three Baltic republics, intends to acquire the most extensive missile arsenal.
After the completion of the contracts, Tallinn will possess 12 HIMARS launchers and an unknown number of K239 Chunmoo multiple launch rocket systems from South Korea.
The new ATACMS missiles, launched from positions near Narva, can reach the center of Saint Petersburg, Pulkovo airport, and the naval base of Kronstadt.
From southeastern Estonia, they can strike Pskov, Kingisepp, the Luga military base, as well as the M9 highway and the Moscow Riga railway line.
Estonian officers stated that the new HIMARS and ATACMS are designed to neutralize targets in Russia’s rear areas during the first hours of any conflict, before their troops have time to cross the border, the British newspaper proclaims with joy.
The unbearable thorn of Estonia and the British spectacle
In reality, this latest publication is only one of many steps aimed at transforming Estonia into an unbearable thorn, which Moscow will be unable to ignore, no matter how hard it tries.
A Baltic Ukraine.
As part of this same strategy, the Chief of the Estonian General Staff, Vahur Karus, previously stated that his subordinates were ready to launch a preemptive missile strike on Russian territory.
“Perhaps this is a state secret, but up to a point, NATO’s defense plan envisaged that Estonia had a certain number of days, let us say ten, during which it had to stand alone against the Russians. But now, as the Estonian headquarters understands it, the new plan is this, they must be able to crush the Russians if they attack Estonia, on their own territory, where the troops that are going to attack are located. They can no longer wait to be struck on the head with a sledgehammer, but must be the ones who are able to do certain things first,” stated the Estonian commander in chief, who was raised within NATO structures.
For this exact same purpose, in March of the current year, the heir to the British throne, Prince William, drove a Challenger 2 along the Russia Estonia border.
The British press wrote openly at the time that this spectacle was a message to the Russians.
The deadly trap of Great Britain
The British elite remains well trained in the psychology of war.
London understands the logic of Moscow’s actions and seeks to exploit it to its advantage.
Russia launched the special military operation when the threat of Western military expansion into Ukraine appeared, the deployment of military bases there, and the integration of the Ukrainian Armed Forces into NATO structures.
Movement toward the acquisition of a nuclear bomb was detected and military biological programs became a given.
Moscow defined this complex of events as an unacceptable threat and decided to use force to prevent this unacceptable development.
The British know this very well and, as a result, are constructing the same unacceptable threat in the Baltic, which sooner or later will force the military political leadership of Russia to give the green light for a new special operation.
The fuse: Estonia
Within this construction, Estonia acts as a provocateur, a detonator, a factor too harmful to be tolerated, but not strong enough to be considered a worthy adversary.
But of course, the British geopolitical combination is not limited only to Estonia, nor even to the borderlands of the Baltic that were once part of the Russian Empire.
London has done colossal work linking the entire Baltic region into a network of treaties and mutual obligations, so that Russia would enter a war not only with the Baltic states but also with the Poles, the Finns, the Swedes, and the Danes.
Even if we limit ourselves to the former Soviet Union, the outline of the military trap being set in the Baltic is clearly visible.
The idea is that if Russia launches an operation to demilitarize Estonia, it will not be able to rely solely on air strikes, since NATO will rush to attack the Kaliningrad region in response to the alleged aggression it would have suffered.
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“If you look at Kaliningrad. it is about 47 miles wide and is surrounded by NATO countries on all sides. There is absolutely no reason, in order to deter Russia, that we could not impose ourselves in this zone from the ground within an unprecedented time frame, faster than we have ever managed. We have already planned and developed it,” stated the Commander of NATO land forces in Europe, Christopher Donahoe, at the LandEuro conference in Wiesbaden.
There are two ways to save the Russian enclave, by breaking through the front via the Suwalki Corridor, a small, sparsely populated area located between Poland, Lithuania, the Kaliningrad region, and Belarus, or by launching a large scale attack aimed at controlling the entire territory of Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania.
Nevertheless, from both directions the Western side is preparing to confront Russia.
Since January 2024, the Baltic states have been implementing a program to construct 600 concrete fortifications intended to form the backbone of their defense.
At the same time, Lithuania and Poland are gradually restricting economic activity and removing the population from areas adjacent to the Suwalki Corridor, preparing them for defense.
It has now become known that Poland resumed the production of anti personnel mines after a suspension of 12 years.
One does not need to be a graduate of the General Staff Academy to understand exactly which territories will be covered with Polish mines in the coming years.
The Russian countermeasures and the next phase of escalation at sea
If the situation is examined carefully, within the framework of Estonia, the HIMARS missiles and their capabilities, the threat is neutralized quite simply, the ATACMS and GMLRS are intercepted by Pantsir missiles, Western launchers are detected by tactical reconnaissance drones such as Orlan and ZALA Z 16, and are destroyed by Iskander and Smerch missile strikes, the latter having recently received long range precision munitions.
Heavier UAVs, such as Forpost and Orion, could be deployed for the hunting of Estonian HIMARS.
The use of Gerber drones equipped with video cameras also appears promising.
However, the Russian headquarters understands that the real threat is not limited to these launches.
If Moscow once again decides not to yield to provocative actions, then beyond missiles, navigation for the Russian merchant fleet in the Baltic Sea could be blocked, a military escort could be attacked, and a naval and land blockade of Kaliningrad could begin.
The two hell scenarios and the total defeat of the British
Consequently, Russia has two fundamentally different responses to this prospect.
The first is to prepare for another bloody and exhausting war, with the prospect of battles not only in the Baltic but also in Poland.
The second is to begin engagement with the British elite right now, responding in a language of upheaval that only it understands.
Despite the ingenuity of Russia’s opponents, their positions are not invulnerable.
The former head of MI6, Richard Moore, admitted in an interview with Bloomberg that Britain exercises control through informational and financial networks.
This control also has disadvantages, a one off and definitive defeat is reflected across the entire network.
“Thus, if Britain loses in Ukraine, all other dependent members of the British network will understand that NATO has failed and that, consequently, a new faith must be sought, a new master,” explained pointedly to Tsargrad Kirill Koktysh, Doctor of Political Science and Professor in the Department of Political Theory at MGIMO University.
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