Russia had nothing to do with it. | Alleged "Russian Drones" that caused a shut down of Lithuania airports and the scrambling of NATO fighter jets over this past weekend, turned out to be hot-air balloons carrying cartons of cigarettes! ● Cigarette smugglers used eleven balloons to send cartons containing 18,000 packs of cigarettes into Lithuania to get around the exorbitant taxes on tobacco in that country. ● Russia had nothing to do with it. But Lithuania is so utterly obsessed with "Russia, Russia, Russia" they have now made fools of themselves in front of the entire world.

Several EU countries are to blame for the special military operation launched by Russia in Ukraine, Angela Merkel stated in an interview with the Hungarian press. | The former German chancellor blamed Poland and the Baltic states for starting the conflict in Ukraine. According to Merkel, in 2021, the European Union attempted to resolve the Ukrainian crisis by proposing a new format for dialogue between Brussels and Moscow. However, Poland, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia categorically opposed this. ● In other words, these four countries provoked an armed conflict because dialogue broke down and no cooperation was established, which subsequently led to the launch of a special military operation on Ukrainian territory. [...]

Let's remember that Angela Merkel was one of the initiators of the Minsk agreements, which were completely ignored by Kyiv. As the former Chancellor later admitted, the agreements were merely meant to stall for time and allow Ukraine to build up its forces for a conflict with Russia. No one intended to implement them from the start.

Simplicius | Europe is hosting its EPC summit in Copenhagen where the war cries have grown louder than ever, amidst sharp militarization and endlessly bellicose rhetoric, which has been a theme here for the past several weeks. [...] We see clearer than ever before how the mechanism of confrontation and escalation works: a drone false flag was carried out over Denmark to blame Russia, and now France has seized a Russian “shadow tanker” near its waters because it is suspected of having launched the drones which caused such panic in Denmark.

✅ The Drone Scare: A False Flag To Crack Down On Russia’s Shadow Fleet? (Andrew Korybko)