Polish Prime Minister Advocates for "Navy Policing" in Baltic Sea
Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has suggested that Baltic and Nordic nations ought to coordinate “navy policing” efforts in the Baltic Sea. Read Full Article at RT.com
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Polish Prime Minister Donald Tusk has proposed that nations in the Baltic region implement “navy policing” as a means to address threats from Russia. Tusk made this suggestion on Wednesday prior to his trip to Sweden for a summit of Baltic and Nordic leaders.
He emphasized that NATO countries have already initiated “air policing” over the Baltic states, specifically Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
“I will convince our partners of the need to immediately create an analogous formula when it comes to the control and security of the Baltic waters, to ‘navy policing,’” he stated to reporters.
Tusk believes that these patrols should be “a joint undertaking of the countries that lie on the Baltic Sea and that have the same sense of threat when it comes to Russia.”
He also remarked, “If Europe is united, then Russia is a technological, financial and economic dwarf in relation to Europe. But if Europe is divided, Russia poses a threat to each and every European country individually.”
As context, there are nine nations bordering the Baltic Sea: Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, and Poland.
The Polish prime minister's proposal came on the heels of an incident in which two underwater cables in the Baltic Sea—connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania—were cut. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius described the incident as an act of “sabotage,” with reports in Western media suggesting that a Chinese-registered merchant ship, captained by a Russian, was responsible for the damage.
In response to these accusations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov labeled the claims as “quite absurd.” He asserted that it is not Russia but “Ukraine that prefers to engage in acts of sabotage and terrorism on the bottom of the Baltic Sea,” citing Ukraine’s alleged role in the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in September 2022.
In August, Nikolay Patrushev, the former head of Russia’s Security Council and current aide to President Vladimir Putin, warned that “the West is seeking to deprive Russia of access to the Baltic Sea.” He claimed that NATO’s recent members, Sweden and Finland, are being utilized to transform the Baltic into “the bloc’s ‘internal sea.’”
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He emphasized that NATO countries have already initiated “air policing” over the Baltic states, specifically Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia.
“I will convince our partners of the need to immediately create an analogous formula when it comes to the control and security of the Baltic waters, to ‘navy policing,’” he stated to reporters.
Tusk believes that these patrols should be “a joint undertaking of the countries that lie on the Baltic Sea and that have the same sense of threat when it comes to Russia.”
He also remarked, “If Europe is united, then Russia is a technological, financial and economic dwarf in relation to Europe. But if Europe is divided, Russia poses a threat to each and every European country individually.”
As context, there are nine nations bordering the Baltic Sea: Russia, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Germany, and Poland.
The Polish prime minister's proposal came on the heels of an incident in which two underwater cables in the Baltic Sea—connecting Finland to Germany and Sweden to Lithuania—were cut. German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius described the incident as an act of “sabotage,” with reports in Western media suggesting that a Chinese-registered merchant ship, captained by a Russian, was responsible for the damage.
In response to these accusations, Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov labeled the claims as “quite absurd.” He asserted that it is not Russia but “Ukraine that prefers to engage in acts of sabotage and terrorism on the bottom of the Baltic Sea,” citing Ukraine’s alleged role in the Nord Stream pipeline explosions in September 2022.
In August, Nikolay Patrushev, the former head of Russia’s Security Council and current aide to President Vladimir Putin, warned that “the West is seeking to deprive Russia of access to the Baltic Sea.” He claimed that NATO’s recent members, Sweden and Finland, are being utilized to transform the Baltic into “the bloc’s ‘internal sea.’”
Rohan Mehta for TROIB News
