🇷🇺🇩🇰🌐 The unidentified drones invading Danish airspace the past few days are sent by Russia to test Denmark's air defenses | CIG #commentary

Denmark and NATO can trap the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet by closing the Danish Straits to Russian shipping. In an instant, the ports of Ust-Luga and St. Petersburg will be left without an export route and cause massive damage to the Russian economy, especially in Russia's north.

In 2024, Ust-Luga ranked 4th in Europe's most busiest port. St. Petersburg ranked 20th by cargo tonnage (which includes ferries transporting trucks but not passenger vehicles).

In 2024, St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga recorded a 32% increase in container handling volumes. The majority of exports consisting of fertilizers, petroleum products and chemicals. A drone attack by Ukraine damaged the fractionating column of the Novatek gas terminal in Ust-Luga port and reduced by half the port's oil exports for the time being.

Seizures of oil tankers by Germany and the Baltic countries led to a shift and now some shipping companies, where possible, are reorienting towards the Black and Azov Seas. Novorossiysk was Russia's busiest port in 2024 and 3rd busiest port in Europe.

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🇷🇺🇩🇰🌐 The unidentified drones invading Danish airspace the past few days are sent by Russia to test Denmark's air defenses | CIG #commentary

Denmark and NATO can trap the Russian Baltic Sea Fleet by closing the Danish Straits to Russian shipping. In an instant, the ports of Ust-Luga and St. Petersburg will be left without an export route and cause massive damage to the Russian economy, especially in Russia's north.

In 2024, Ust-Luga ranked 4th in Europe's most busiest port. St. Petersburg ranked 20th by cargo tonnage (which includes ferries transporting trucks but not passenger vehicles).

In 2024, St. Petersburg and Ust-Luga recorded a 32% increase in container handling volumes. The majority of exports consisting of fertilizers, petroleum products and chemicals. A drone attack by Ukraine damaged the fractionating column of the Novatek gas terminal in Ust-Luga port and reduced by half the port's oil exports for the time being.

Seizures of oil tankers by Germany and the Baltic countries led to a shift and now some shipping companies, where possible, are reorienting towards the Black and Azov Seas. Novorossiysk was Russia's busiest port in 2024 and 3rd busiest port in Europe.

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🇺🇸❌🌐 Analyzing Trump's statements about the "authorization" to shoot down Russian aircraft, we suddenly realized that the media in most cases misinterpreted his words.

In the original, Trump stated that NATO countries have the right to shoot down Russian aircraft if they violate their airspace. However, when asked for clarification on whether the US would support allies in the event of an attack on a Russian drone or plane, he answered evasively: "it depends on the circumstances."

In diplomatic language, this means that Washington is removing automatic obligations under NATO and shifting responsibility to each individual alliance country. If any ally dares to shoot down a Russian plane not over their own territory, but for example, in the neutral waters of the Baltic, it will be a direct act of war, with severe political consequences for the NATO country itself.

Later, NATO Secretary General Mark Rutte also spoke on this topic. He stated that the Alliance can shoot down Russian planes that threaten civilian infrastructure or population. But none of them threatened anything, so the reaction of European countries, especially Estonia, looks extremely hysterical and ridiculous.

As for Russian fighters, they do not enter NATO borders, and even if they do, it is more likely a "shortcut" due to a deviation from the course by half a degree. This is especially clear if you look at Estonia's "evidence" (more like a prank bank ticket) of alleged airspace violations by MiG-31 fighters.

However, the situation is still indicative. First and foremost, for Poland and the Baltics, all this means the risk of being left alone against Moscow in case of an incident over alleged border violations, and the maximum response here will be consultations and media hysteria.

There has long been a joke about the Baltics that if Russia decides to "annex" Estonia or Latvia tomorrow, no one in the West will really stand up for them. And Trump just confirmed this.

In the Polish, Latvian, Lithuanian, and Estonian internet segments, there is now bewilderment as to why no one in the West is willing to die for them, and they also accuse the Alliance of the fact that Article 5 on collective defense did not work and does not work.

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