Most predictable outcome ever.
Almost as if the story I saw from some Russian-friendly blog saying that it was totally an accident and this was NATO lusting after World War 3 by making a big deal about it as they always do, was a bunch of shit.
Russians spreading misinformation? Now that’s hard to believe. /s <- hopefully that was obvious
Neighboring country might join an alliance we don’t like -> “FUCKIN WORLD WAR 3 AND IT’S YOUR FAULT FOR ESCALATING HOW DARE YOU ESCALATE LIKE THIS”
We fly drones into NATO country’s airspace -> “Oopsie daisy why you so upset, stop escalating bro”
I don’t see what exactly supports that sensationalistheadline: the plans to target anything in Poland, Lithuania. It is pretty much suicidal and also inconsistent with what russia does right now.
In early July, Polish investigators revealed that wreckage from Russian drones shot down in Ukraine contained 4G modems equipped with SIM cards from Polish mobile operators, as reported by Polish journalist Marek Budzisz. Later, a SIM card from a Lithuanian operator was also discovered in another drone.
That’s the factual core of the article, excluding guesses and assumptions. I don’t know said journalist by name so there I do lay some trust in this magazine in citing them.
And while implying russia wants to have a war with one another country at the moment is pretty dumb, there are tons of other more probable explanations.
For one, russia does use aerospace of bordering countries in order to attack from an unlikely direction and doesn’t want such drones to be discovered not by Ukraine, nor by the third country it borrowed sim cards from.
Saying so doesn’t absolve russia of responsibility, but what kind of responsibility exactly? There we shall open a new can of worms: does posing as a device from another country count as a new kind of a warcrime, invented by russia? Like, using other country’s uniform is a legit offence, so simcards shouldn’t be okay too? Or not? It is for others to decide.
But, besides discovering and banning batches of simcards that they would do, I think that Poland and Lithuania downing drones with european simcards is a flawless idea no matter where are they from or where they want to fly, for they are european drones now and europeans have all rights to decide their faith.
