It has been happening for decades, but now the news is systematically amplified and exploited. Behind, the need to guide public opinion and make Kiev’s dream come true: to create an accident by involving NATO
No day passes without there being alarming news on alleged trespassing of Russian military aircraft in the airspace of a Nation of NATO of Northeast Europe. The problem, however, is not so much in fact, known and known, as in the transformation into drama of a practice that has been happening for decades for various reasons. The aim, coincidentally, is to mobilize public opinion to make it favorable to rearmament. All well cooked and leavened thanks to a propaganda that arises from the Ukrainian secret services.
Let’s make a bet: once the EU Parliament has approved the “Droni wall” that is so hearted to the Scandinavian countries, but that we pay all of us, the phenomenon will ease. Until then there is no vote, until then let’s not make fun of: the Russian jets approach the borders of NATO because the Russian territory in those parts reaches their own border. Every time you shout to the invasion it would be good to reopen the map and observe it, rediscovering, for example, that there is the enclave of Kaliningrad, a Russian region located on the coast of the Baltic Sea, separated from the Russian territory and bordered with Poland and Lithuania, both members of NATO and EU.
If you take off from there with a jet or from Russia you fly in that direction, at 2,000 kmh you bide in less than a minute of flight. So Russian military flights inevitably take place on the limits of the aerial space of the coastal nations of the Baltic Sea, all belonging to the Atlantic alliance, without this being an attack. This is also because, in places like the Gulf of Finland, there is no international airspace because the Russian, Estonian and Finnish ones practically overlap.
The aircraft proceeds on special corridors of sky defined in navigation cards as an international airspace and allows Russian planes to fly in the area without violating the airspace of Finland and Estonia. But this corridor is gaming designed so that the more you fly true east, where Russia is, the smaller the corridor is small. And since that area is among those most affected by radio disorders at the frequencies used by navigation systems, being precise by flying faster than sound is complicated, so many drivers use the old inertial systems instead of the Glonass constellation (the Russian GPS).
It happens, therefore, that some flights come out of the “corridor” and then return as soon as they notice, or when they understand they are intercepted. Therefore a announcement to collective hysteria, because the media and certain politics blow on this event, the one that must digest increasingly higher military expenses that are approved for more than tactical industrial reasons.
For example, a few days ago three Mig-31 flew almost the whole Gulf of Finland on the Estonian side before heading to Kaliningrad. The Italian F-35s were also intercepted them, whose pilots confirmed the trespassing for less than 8 kilometers. The thesis that Russia would be “testing NATO’s response” is therefore a very comfortable hoax: the Russians know perfectly where and how many are the hunting of the Atlantic alliance, but in those parts they are close to their home.
And they know the F-35 well because its engines were also manufactured in Türkiye when Erdogan bought the S-400 missiles from Moscow. What happens today in the Baltic also happened even when the borders of NATO had that protective belt that separated them from the Soviet and then Russian sky, therefore there is nothing new: the allied hunting warns the intruder who approached the national airspace, support him and escort him, did not activate the pointing radar, until they move away.
The majority of the media of this episode omitted to tell the Russian version deemed not credible, but the Kremlin had rejected the accusations through a declaration of the Ministry of Defense in which he had specified that “the three Mig-31s were leading a routine flight from the Parelia region, to the east of Finland, at an airport in the Kaliningrad region; kilometers from the Estonian island of Vaindloo, without violating Estonian airspace. ” And also that the flight had taken place “in accordance with international regulations without crossing the boundaries of other countries.”
We can therefore make two considerations: if we cannot take for gold poured what Russia says, it is equally true that born, EU and several governments in the Baltic region have lied by exaggerating events such as these too many times from the beginning of the Russian-Ukraine war, as if they had an urgency to increase alarmisms if not to create an accident that triggers an armed reaction of NATO, or what Kiev dreams.
