In the meantime, the developments in the Baltic Sea surrounding the two tankers, Eagle S and Evertin, are becoming increasingly absurd, even after the allegedly legal sanctions decrees of the EU. At the same time, one of the most important publications of the US neocons, The Atlantic, has published an article aiming to fuel the fire further: “A War Has Already Begun in Europe”. In this, the leadership of EU countries are accused of not recognizing that Russia is already waging war against them.
“The inability to describe war actions as war actions is part of a culture of distortion and denial, as far as the topic of state-financed violence is concerned.” Of course, this sentence in The Atlantic is not referring to the attack on Nord Stream, whose billion-dollar damages were only a friendly act of assistance by the Biden administration for the climate goals, but rather the alleged attacks on the East Sea cables and other examples of supposed Russian sabotage.
One could almost say that this article summarizes the last assignment of the current Washington powerholders to the EU representatives: “The combination of Putin’s aggression and Trump’s indifference should be an opportunity for Europe to take responsibility for its own defense. The first important step in this realization is to acknowledge what is already happening: a war is a war, name it as such.”
Now, let us turn to the latest events on the battlefield of the Baltic Sea. The Eagle S is still being held in Finland, but at least the crew, which is predominantly Indian and Georgian, has been allowed to return to the ship. The latest story spun in Finland is that the ship had the most modern espionage equipment on board and was spying on NATO communication during its voyages. As is now the norm in EU countries, this story is being spread without noticing the deep contradictions within.
The story, however, is already strange, as according to the Indian newspaper National Defence, the captain is the only Russian among the Indians and Georgians – with the variant published by Lloyd’s List stating that this espionage equipment was operated by “Russian, Turkish, and Indian radio officers”. The two stories of sabotage and espionage, however, basically exclude each other; if the Eagle S was indeed used to spy on NATO communication, it would be almost the last ship to be commissioned to destroy an underwater cable (by the way, it has been known for a while that the Russian Navy has submarines?).