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Its been a well known secret that Russia has been using incursions into Swedish airspace and Swedish land as a part of troop training for decades. The only majo
by belorn 1y ago
Its been a well known secret that Russia has been using incursions into Swedish airspace and Swedish land as a part of troop training for decades. The only major change in recent time is the rate of the incidents, and the use of interference that is more noticeable to civilian infrastructure. Boat captains from multiple industries are complaining that they have to go back to use physical maps rather the GPS when plotting courses through the Baltics, as the gps indicator just spins in circle and produce visual noise. It is a new situation, through built on top of past behavior. The general theory is that this represent a change towards a more drone-heavy strategy with different attack and defense technologies being used as part of training and testing.
I do not see it as a direct way to manufacture consent for a war, but the impact on civilian infrastructure is starting to be annoying enough that the military of multiple nations around the Baltics are looking to do something, and the effect of that something may create political waves. Same things with the attacks on undersea cables and the suggested counter measures, which also include military aspects to it.