Estonian officials said Russia has bolstered its electronic warfare systems near its border with the Baltic country.
The Russian army brought additional signals jamming equipment to the area around Kingisiepp, a town around 20 kilometers (12 miles) from the Estonian frontier, Interior Minister Igor Taro said at a press conference in Tallinn.
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Such equipment has been used on the battlefield in Ukraine to disrupt drones’ navigational signals. However, electronic warfare also causes severe interference to the Global Positioning System, or GPS, used by commercial airplanes and ships.
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One just has to read a little more news from the Baltic States to understand that the threat is verry real, that Russia really is the aggressor and not the victim. Tankies: 🖕
NATO article 5 is going to be teased in 2027
Can you explain why Putin would do that?
Edit: Outrageous to ask such a subversive question, Jeez
If you are really asking me, then the answe is simple: to exercise more control over capital inside Russia. The war in Ukraine will end sooner or later, the sanctions will be lifted and the capital will flow in and out, effectively destroying the authoritarian regime he built.
But again, my opinion here is marginal and should be taken with a grain of salt.
Edit: in-flow would be significantly lower than the out-flow as we saw how foreign capital was seized. Unless there will be significant gain opportunities like in the 90s.
Of course I am asking you.
But I am not sure if I am getting this right: You think the outflow of capital would be so disastrous for Putin’s power that he’d try to stop it by testing NATO? Because then he’d get sanctions again, which would stop the outflow? Or at least that’d be his intention?
I guess the imbalance between out- and in-flow would be the largest challenge Putiln will face after the end of war and soft-lift of sanctions. Not the people going to the streets how the western propaganda likes to imagine it. Will he solve it? IDK, really. Either way, it would be a disaster.
My thoughts:
When sanctions are lifted it wouldn’t stop capital outflow, which can be controlled by the state anytime. Only capital inflow might increase, which wouldn’t damage Putin’s regime, it’s something Russia actually craves for. Also, Putin has continuously shown he wants to have sanctions lifted. A war or conflict with NATO on the other hand would never consolidate Putin’s power, how could it?
Tankies: 🖕
always pertinent
Can’t we counterjam them? They have more to lose in that area of the globe.
Being on the ground, they’re a lot closer to the GPS receivers and basically overpower the real signal that has to come all the way from space. Satellites also have to very careful with their power use, so counter-jamming that method would be almost impossible.
You could install your own ground stations, but then it becomes a game of who has more electricity to burn.
Edit: Better antennas can help, but get very expensive very fast. Since they’re really just adding more and more and more antennas.
The nice thing about jammers is that they’re basically giant homing beacons though. Unfortunately, using them as such is pretty much an act of war.
Which is the whole point: provocation.
Oh no doubt. They’re just baiting a response so they can play the victim again.
Feels like everything that’s happening lately is being treated like it’s the weather. There’s forecasts but in the end it’s non negotiable.
Video of Russian soldiers near the Estonian border:
Never gonna give up, never gonna let you down
