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Monday, September 22, 2025

Russian Aircraft Threaten Estonia, Drones Attack Poland. It's All Bollocks Intended To Drag NATO Into The War

 22 Sepember 2025

The warmongering efforts of Starmer, Macron and other European NATO leaders and the neo - Nazi regime in Kiev, as once again they try to fabricate a reason for NATO (i.e. American,) troops to get involved on the ground in Ukraine, are as always laughable. This report from the New York Times is typical of the misinformation being pumped out by governments and mainstream media.

Russian Fighter Jets Enter Airspace of Estonia, a NATO Member (archived) - NY Times, Sep 19 2025
Estonia’s foreign minister described the flights, which lasted for an unusually long 12 minutes, as an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion.

Three Russian fighter jets violated Estonia’s airspace on Friday for an unusually long period, some 12 minutes, in what Estonia’s foreign minister called an “unprecedentedly brazen” intrusion over the NATO country.

NATO responded to intercept the Russian jets, Allison Hart, the military alliance’s spokeswoman, said in a statement on X. “This is yet another example of reckless Russian behavior and NATO’s ability to respond,” she said.
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Tensions were already high after at least 21 Russian drones flew in Polish airspace 10 days ago, prompting NATO to scramble fighter jets to shoot down some of them. That incursion was regarded by Polish officials, who provided an updated count of the drones, as a deliberate effort to test the alliance’s readiness and a dangerous escalation of the war in Ukraine.

The Russian Gebera decoy drones that flew over Poland have a range of some 600 kilometer (370 mi). If they had been launched from behind Russian lines they could not have reached Poland. The drones, which do not carry any weapons, were most likely abandoned in Ukraine, patched up and reprogrammed by Ukrainian services, and sent towards Poland. This was completely in line with the ways Ukraine has tried to drag NATO into its war even as allies try to persuade the Ukies to seek peace and end the slaughter.  

The 'unprecedentedly brazen intrusion' (according to warmongers in mainstream media) into the airspace of Estonia, if it has happened at all, did not take place over Estonia's mainland but near Vaindloo, (red circle on the map,) an uninhabited rock in the Gulf of Finland in the Baltic Sea, some 26 kilometer (16 mi) north of the Estonian coast.



The Gulf of Finland is a long branch of the Baltic Sea with Finland to the north and Estonia to the south. At its eastern end is Russia and the city and port of St. Petersburg. Since the breakup of the Soviet Union  the Gulf has been designated as neutral water, with none of the nations on its shores claiming territorial rights.

The NY Times piece does, of course, NOT mention that. It is worded to make the reader believe that Estonia was somehow endangered.

The Russian military says that its jets did not violate Estonian airspace: According to Russia’s deputy ambassador to the UN, Dmitry Polyansky, the Russian jets conducted a planned flight and “did not stray from the agreed route, nor did they cross into Estonian airspace” as they flew over “the neutral waters of the Baltic Sea, over three kilometers from the island of Vaindloo.”

Estonia could have established these facts on its own but doing so was not on Tallinn’s agenda, the Russian diplomat said. “Its goal is different: to stir up hysteria and accuse Russia of provocations despite any facts and common sense,” he added. 

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