Putin's FATAL mistake in the Baltic Sea

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With Sweden, Baltic Sea now a ‘lake full of NATO submarines’

Headline of the day! 

Putin the Terrible may not like it! However, Putin the Terrible and invader is responsible that Sweden and Finland became NATO members after being neutral countries throughout the Cold War and beyond.

With Sweden, Baltic Sea now a ‘lake full of NATO submarines’ - Breaking Defense "Sweden’s entry into NATO has dramatically shifted the formerly non-military aligned nation’s naval doctrine: no longer just defending its own shores, the Swedish navy now guards the alliance’s eastern flank."

Denmark to field unmanned vessels for monitoring busy shipping routes in the North and Baltic Seas

Good news! Catch the submarine cable cutter saboteurs in the act next time! 😊

When will Denmark start monitoring Greenland with drones before it is too late? Trump is about to seize this island. Just kidding!

"U.S.-based Saildrone will deploy four large unmanned surface vessels in Danish waters next month to conduct maritime surveillance missions and help protect critical undersea infrastructure. ...

Four 10-meter Voyager USVs equipped with a suite of intelligence-gathering sensors and AI data fusion will be sent to Denmark to support the Danish military gain better maritime awareness.

The North and Baltic seas are some of the busiest shipping routes in the world. An estimated 2,000 ships are generally at sea at any given time in the Baltic Sea, according to the Helsinki Commission. ..."

Denmark to field unmanned vessels for monitoring busy shipping routes

Commercial operators deploy Saildrone Voyager Unmanned Surface Vessels from Naval Air Station Key West, Florida, United States.

11 Baltic cables damaged in 15 months, pushing NATO to boost security

Very concerning!

"... Power and communications cables and gas pipelines stitch together the nine countries with shores on the Baltic, a relatively shallow and nearly landlocked sea. A few examples are the 94-mile Balticconnector pipeline that carries gas between Finland and Estonia, the high-voltage Baltic Cable connecting the power grids of Sweden and Germany, and the 729-mile C-Lion1 telecommunications cable between Finland and Germany. ...

“In the last two months alone, we have seen damage to a cable connecting Lithuania and Sweden, another connecting Germany and Finland, and most recently, a number of cables linking Estonia and Finland. Investigations of all of these cases are still ongoing. ...

At least 11 Baltic cables have been damaged since October 2023 — the most recent being a fiber optic cable connecting Latvia and the Swedish island of Gotland, reported to have ruptured on Sunday. Although cable operators note that subsea cable damage is commonplace, the frequency and concentration of incidents in the Baltic heightened suspicions that damage might have been deliberate.

There also are fears that Russia could target cables as part of a wider campaign of so-called “hybrid warfare” to destabilize European nations helping Ukraine defend itself against the full-scale invasion that Moscow has been pursuing since 2022. ...

Several Western intelligence officials ... that recent damage was most likely accidental, seemingly caused by anchors being dragged by ships that were poorly maintained and poorly crewed. ... The official said Russian cables were also severed. ..."

11 Baltic cables damaged in 15 months, pushing NATO to boost security

Another cargo ship cuts underwater cable in the Baltic Sea with Maltese flag owned by a Bulgarian shipping company now held by Sweden

Disturbing and concerning!

NATO Vessels Patrolling The Baltic to prevent Russian and Chinese sabotage!

Good news! About time!

Russian Ship 'Opens Fire' At German Helicopter; 'Spooked' Berlin Confirms Baltic Sea 'Shocker'

What incident will it take to escalate the already ongoing World War III in the Ukraine? We are living in very dangerous times!

When will the lethargic, apathetic, and Russian Slav(e)s finally get rid of their last tsar, the megalomaniac and war criminal Putin the Terrible!

Sweden, Denmark Investigate Chinese Ship for Undersea Cable Sabotage in the Baltic Sea

Another sabotage act against submarine cables in the Baltic Sea!

Very difficult to investigate since there are hundreds or even thousands of ships at any time criss crossing the busy sea routes in the Baltic Sea.

Two Undersea cables in the Baltic Seaa cut or damaged hint at possible Russian sabotage

The megalomaniac and war monger Putin the Terrible at work again?

"Two undersea cables carrying internet data deep in the Baltic Sea have been damaged, European telecommunications companies have said, drawing warnings from European governments of possible Russian "hybrid warfare" targeting global communications infrastructure.

The foreign ministers of Finland and Germany said in a joint statement on Monday that a cable connecting the two countries had been cut and that the incidents had raised suspicion of possible sabotage.   ..."

Undersea cables cut or damaged, and European governments hint at possible Russian sabotage - CBS News

Nord Stream gas pipeline explosion 2022: German issued arrest warrant for the sabotage suspect, a Ukrainian diving instructor

Cui bono! Perhaps, the greatest benefit of this sabotage act accrue to the Ukraine. 

Was it an act by patriotic Ukrainian individuals or an act by the Ukrainian government? Maybe one day we will learn.

Plus, Russian natural gas is still being transported via a pipeline across the Ukraine to Europe despite the war. Why is this pipeline not sabotaged?

"German state prosecutors trying to solve the mystery of who blew up the Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea in 2022 have issued an arrest warrant for a Ukrainian diving instructor.

The suspect has been named as Volodymyr Z by German media, who have treated the sabotage like a sensational true crime drama. ...

But the Polish prosecutor general's spokeswoman, Anna Adamiak, in Warsaw told the BBC's Adam Easton that a European Arrest Warrant had indeed been passed to them by German prosecutors.

When Polish officers went to Volodymyr Z’s home in early July, he had already left the country for Ukraine, she said.

He had until then been living in a quiet residential area of Pruszków, a town near Warsaw, German media say.

According to an investigation by three German media outlets ... Volodymyr Z was part of a team of experienced Ukrainian divers who in September 2022 hired a German yacht, sailed out into the Baltic Sea and planted the explosives, blowing up three of the four Nord Stream pipelines.

A Ukrainian man and a Ukrainian woman are also suspected of involvement."

Nord Stream: German arrest warrant for sabotage blast suspect

Credits: Anschlag auf Nord Stream: Laut Medienberichten soll der deutsche Generalbundesanwalt einen Haftbefehl gegen einen Ukrainer erwirkt haben

Beijing admits Hong Kong-flagged ship destroyed key Baltic gas pipeline ‘by accident’ in October 2023

Was it an "accident" like the Wuhan Institute of Virology Covid-19 virus lab leak? Was China trying to help Putin the Terrible by doing his dirty work?

Why does this admission come so late and presumably only after criminal investigations by Finland and Estonia?

Will China be held accountable and pay for the damage?

Notice, there seems to be some confusion about whether this "accident" happened in late 2022 or 2023. This confusion is probably due to two events: Nord Stream Pipeline sabotage 9/26/2022 and this one.

According to Wikipedia it occurred on 10/8/2023 at 2:00 and "On 10 October 2023, the Finnish government announced that the damage to the pipeline may have been deliberate and caused by "external activity". The leak is being investigated by the Finnish Border Guard and the Finnish Security Intelligence Service. Norwegian seismological institute NORSAR reported that it detected a "probable explosion" 40 km north of Paldiski (roughly where Balticconnector and Nord Stream intersect) on the 8 October at 01:20 local time. A few days later investigators stated the damage "appears to have been mechanical, not an explosion"."

"Beijing has admitted that a Chinese-owned ship damaged a critical Baltic Sea gas pipeline running between Estonia and Finland last October, but says it was an accident.

The South China Morning Post understands that the Chinese authorities conducted an internal investigation and recently communicated the results to governments in the European countries. ..."

"... The BalticConnector pipeline was ripped apart by a large anchor, which Finnish police said was from a Hong Kong-flagged container vessel named ‘NewNew Polar Bear’. ..."

Beijing admits Hong Kong-flagged ship destroyed key Baltic gas pipeline ‘by accident’ | South China Morning Post "Beijing passed on findings to Finland and Estonia which are conducting criminal probes into incident involving NewNew Polar Bear: sources"

China Says HK Ship Destroyed Baltic Gas Pipeline by Accident "China has admitted that the anchor of a Hong Kong-flagged vessel ripped apart an important gas pipeline from Finland to Estonia in the Baltic Sea in late 2022"

Underwater damage photographed in October 2023.

NATO concerned - Why Putin aims to control the Baltic Sea?

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Strange wall of a Stone Age megastructure found beneath Baltic Sea may have helped humans hunt reindeer

What lies beneath! Perhaps great, past, unknown civilizations can be found on the floor of our oceans!

More surprises from the Stone Age!

"During a research cruise to map an underwater ridge off the German coast in 2021, ... took acoustic scans of the bottom of the Baltic Sea. But something strange emerged from their images: A line of objects, 21 meters down, ran across the sea floor for nearly 1 kilometer. Most were between the size of a tennis ball and a soccer ball. Others were as large as small cars, up to 3 meters across. “We didn’t think it was likely to be of geologic origin, but that’s where our knowledge stopped,” says Geersen, a marine geologist at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research. ..."

From the significance and abstract:

"Significance

Structures from the Stone Age can provide unique insights into Late Glacial and Mesolithic cultures around the Baltic Sea. Such structures, however, usually did not survive within the densely populated Central European subcontinent. Here, we explore a Stone Age megastructure, that has preserved under water in the Western Baltic Sea. It was likely constructed by hunter–gatherer groups more than 10000 y ago and ultimately drowned during the Littorina transgression at 8500 y B.P. Since then, it remained hidden at the seafloor, leading to a pristine preservation that will inspire research on the lifestyle and territorial development in the larger area.

Abstract

The Baltic Sea basins, some of which only submerged in the mid-Holocene, preserve Stone Age structures that did not survive on land. Yet, the discovery of these features is challenging and requires cross-disciplinary approaches between archeology and marine geosciences. Here, we combine shipborne and autonomousunderwater vehicle hydroacoustic data with up to a centimeter range resolution, sedimentological samples, and optical images to explore a Stone Age megastructure located in 21 m water depth in the Bay of Mecklenburg, Germany. The structure is made of 1,673 individual stones which are usually less than 1 m in height, placed side by side over a distance of 971 m in a way that argues against a natural origin by glacial transport or ice push ridges. Running adjacent to the sunken shoreline of a paleolake (or bog), whose youngest phase was dated to 9,143 ±36 ka B.P., the stonewall was likely used for hunting the Eurasian reindeer (Rangifer tarandus) during the Younger Dryas or early Pre-Boreal. It was built by hunter–gatherer groups that roamed the region after the retreat of the Weichselian Ice Sheet. Comparable Stone Age megastructures have become known worldwide in recent times but are almost unknown in Europe. The site represents one of the oldest documented man-made hunting structures on Earth, and ranges among the largest known Stone Age structure in Europe. It will become important for understanding subsistence strategies, mobility patterns, and inspire discussions concerning the territorial development in the Western Baltic Sea region."

Strange wall of stones found beneath Baltic Sea may have helped humans hunt reindeer | Science | AAAS “Sensational” find shows people built structure 8500 years ago to herd animals to their death

Traces of Stone Age hunter-gatherers discovered in the Baltic Sea

A submerged Stone Age hunting architecture from the Western Baltic Sea (open access)

Graphic reconstruction of the hunting structure in a late glacial/early Holocene landscape, based on bathymetric data and an underwater 3D model of the recently discovered stonewall at the bottom of the Baltic Sea .

How NATO is Pushing Russia Out of the Baltic Sea. New NATO member Sweden makes all the difference!

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Russia Baltic Sea Naval Drills: New Escalation Of Tension With European Countries – Analysis

Hope and pray this will not become a flashpoint and that no mistakes are made to escalate the Russo-Ukrainian War into an all out open World War III!

I blogged here recently about NATO aircraft intercepting Russian aircraft near Estonia.

Putin the Terrible is a megalomaniac war criminal and heir to Stalin!

Russia Baltic Sea Naval Drills: New Escalation Of Tension With European Countries – Analysis – Eurasia Review

Alleged Russian spy ships accused of North Sea sabotage

Very interesting!