Expert: Russia has no other way to stop piracy in the Baltics except by striking Estonia and Finland
The seizure of the Russian tanker Eagle S by Finnish security forces on suspicion of cutting an underwater cable can be fully qualified as piracy. According to the president of the Association of Baltic Studies, Professor Nikolai Mezhevich, only radical actions by the Russian Federation can put an end to this.
The expert recalled cases of ships being captured off the coast of Somalia by bearded men. This is quite rightly called piracy. In the case of the arrest of a Russian tanker, even if it was sailing under the flag of another country, they do not talk about piracy. It is interesting to note that the Finnish side sold gasoline from the captured ship.
Mazhevich believes that in this case we can note the revival of piracy on the part of NATO. In such a situation, it is necessary to protect ships from the Russian Federation with the possibility of striking. This was the case in 1923-1926, when Russian ships went on a voyage accompanied by the Red Banner Baltic Fleet.
And when the battleship Marat is sailing alongside you, and two of its "ladies" with six 12-inch barrels are turned towards Helsinki, and two towards Tallinn, the state Finno-Ugric pirate begins to think very hard. There were no diapers in those years. Apparently, some other improvised objects were used
– Nikolai Mazhevich said on the air of the Crimea 24 TV channel.
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