Mastodawn

*The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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...#GulfRegion, #Lebanon, #Israel, and, of course, above all, #Iran. And we really grief about the casualties, for some interested parties, it is but “a.. .

*Footnote from (1/n): the Media have also spectacularly been missing out on #Ukraine’s huge recent military successes in taking out #Russian military vessels, #Navy facilities, and critical energy. However, not being an #AI, I can over only so many theaters at once. 😉

*War Not Just In The Middle East—The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

(3/n)

...excursion” 1), and they offer disinterested thoughts and prayers, the wording closely resembling the official statements following the highly frequent shooting incidents in the #US, “…The lives of courageous #American heroes may be lost, and we may have casualties," #Trump said. "That often happens in war.’”
Oh, yes it does, which is why you usually do not start an attack on other countries…

*The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

(4/n)

... unless you are a criminally indicted and/or convicted (would-be) Fellon-In-Chief. At least, it seems to be this way in recent years.

*THE NOT-SO-HYBRID WARFARE IN THE BALTIC SEA—THE CHARLES-DE-GAULE INCIDENT OF FEBRUARY 27, 2026*

However, while “we were all sleeping” (or did you know about this diplomatically severe incident?), a #Russian navy ship launched a huge #Drone against the #French #AircraftCarrier, #CharlesDeGaul...

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https://swedeninsights.com/2024/12/28/baltic-sea-cable-sabotage-investigating-the-tensions-between-china-and-sweden/

HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴

*The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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...The “Charles de Gaulle is the flagship of the #FrenchNav<y. Commissioned in 2001, the ship is the tenth #French aircraft carrier, the first French nuclear-powered surface vessel, and the only nuclear-powered carrier completed outside of the United States Navy.” 6) “It was docked in #Malmo for a strategic exercise, the ongoing...

Baltic Sea Cable Sabotage: Tensions Rise Between China and Sweden Over Undersea Infrastructure

Explore the Baltic Sea cable sabotage, China's partial cooperation, Sweden's response, and NATO's efforts to protect critical infrastructure.

SwedenInsights

*The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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... “#Lafayette26” [#NATO training] mission in the #NorthAtlantic [to show #Trump that the #European NATO members *can* project power, too], which will include multinational exercises in the #BalticSea, aimed at deterring [the now quite frequent] threats to #UnderseaCables.” 2b)—In particular, from the unofficial #Russian #Oil #ShadowFleet, but also #Chinese sabotage vessels (e.g. the #YiPeng3-incident in...

7)
https://swedeninsights.com/2024/12/28/baltic-sea-cable-sabotage-investigating-the-tensions-between-china-and-sweden/

*War Not Just In The Middle East—The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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...November, 2024. 7))

*THE MAJOR ANTECEDENT: SABOTAGE OF THE NORDSTREAM PIPELINE*

Let us put this major, but in the mass media largely unreported, incident aside for a moment, and look at the bigger picture first:

So, #HybridWarefare is turned up another notch once again in the #BalticSea, which had, so far, culminated in the destruction of the #NordStream2...

Baltic Sea Cable Sabotage: Tensions Rise Between China and Sweden Over Undersea Infrastructure

Explore the Baltic Sea cable sabotage, China's partial cooperation, Sweden's response, and NATO's efforts to protect critical infrastructure.

SwedenInsights

*War Not Just In The Middle East—The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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... pipeline in September 2022.

Despite a #Ukrainian, certain #SerhijK., being held in detention, the instigators might well have been from other countries.

The diplomatic and #Political concept of “Plausible denial” might point the finger to a, now demoted, #Ukrainian Commander-in-Chief, but due to the vital militarily concept of #ChainOfCommand, how likely is that? The (only publicly?)...

*War Not Just In The Middle East—The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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... of vital infrastructure of a #NATO ally, #Germany, is a huge deal!👈

So, what is the likelihood of, you guessed it, the #CIA having sent the wrong signals to #Kyiv and having belatedly voiced opposition to the attack?
No further questions, Your Honor, I dare say.

The new findings about the #NordStream terrorist attack were recently reported in several media 8). And let us be...

8) https://defence24.com/geopolitics/cia-discussed-nord-stream-sabotage-plans-with-ukraine

*War Not Just In The Middle East—The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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...clear, once again, 👉there is no #PlausibleDenial option for the #US Government’s role in this attack on a #NATO ally👈 at this point anymore:

The #CIA, and thus the #US Government, knew well enough before the terrorist attack took place to have leaned on #Zelensky. —
However, that finding does not really surprise me, as I had long 👉speculated about the beneficiaries of...

CIA discussed Nord Stream sabotage plans with Ukraine

Ukrainian sabotage operation specialists were reportedly set to meet with CIA officers in the spring of 2022.

9) https://mastodon.social/@HistoPol/115272848994848162

*War Not Just In The Middle East—The War(s) That the Mainstream Media Ignore(s)* *

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...the #OilPipeline being much further away than #Kyiv or #Moscow.9)

According to #Defence24.com, #US #Intelligence’s involvement is even worse, as is the #Ukrainian one, which allegedly were the instigators of the plan: “#Ukrainian #Sabotage operation specialists were reportedly set to meet with #CIA officers in the spring of 2022...” “The operation was...

*HPsCommentary*

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...reportedly approved by
then-Commander-in-Chief of the #Ukrainian #ArmedForces, Gen. #ValeriiZaluzhnyi, without the knowledge of President #VolodymyrZelensky.” 8) —
The #US are a #NATO ally, #Ukraine is not.

*STRATEGY BRIEF: THE CONCEPT OF PLAUSIBLE DENIAL AND CUBAN OPERATION*

Of course not, the war-seasoned president will have been counseled by his advisors on the importance of the #US cold-war concept of #PlausibleDeniability [as is #Putin,...

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...but this is not the point I’m trying to make here]:

“Intelligence practice has always been a matter of indirection, secrecy and deceit. In #UnitedStates covert operations this has included applying the technique of “plausible deniability.”
Under that concept operations and activities are carried out in such fashion as to keep hidden the hand of the #CIA or the #UnitedStates, or in other ways to make it possible to deny U.S. involvement…during the #ColdWar era—and here the...

11) https://nsarchive.gwu.edu/briefing-book/intelligence/2019-03-04/understanding-cia-how-covert-overt-operations-proposed-approved-during-cold-war

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...presidents under consideration are #JohnFKennedy, #LyndonBJohnson, and #RichardMNixon—plausible deniability was standard procedure.“ 11)

However, the term must have originated earlier, because after the disastrously failed #BayOfPigs operation. That operation was originally envisaged as a covert operation and had been planned under the former General, then President #Eisenhower. After his 2and term in office, it was then...

Understanding the CIA: How Covert (and Overt) Operations Were Proposed and Approved during the Cold War | National Security Archive

Washington, DC, March 4, 2019 – The covert operations of the Central Intelligence Agency are one element of the forward edge of power in U.S. foreign policy. But the CIA is not a lone ranger, shooting up saloons on its own account. A senior interagency group within the United States government acts as the high command of the secret war.

(15/n) #HPsCommentary

...and then carried out during the first year of the #JFK presidency, the “Top Secret”, but now declassified, INSPECTOR GENERAL’S SURVEY of the #CUBAN OPERATION, October 1961,” reads not only like the epitaph of #US attempts at foreign regime changes, as well as illegally-acting #US president (prior prime example: #RichardNixon and the #Watergate scandal, a historical footnote by today’s #Trumpean standards, if I may say so.) It also shows, that the concept was clearly...

(16/n) #HPsCommentary

...seen to not be working as early as the first of the named #ColdWar presidents:
“For more than three months before the invasion the #American press was reporting, often with some accuracy, on the recruiting and training of #Cubans. Such massive preparations could only be laid to the U.S. The Agency’s name was freely linked with these activities. #PlausibleDenial was a pathetic illusion.” (p.61)

However, once again, the “#BromancePresidents” seem to both have failed...

(17/n) #HPsCommentary

...reading to the end—a failing for which only one of the two can offer his apparent reading and concentration deficiencies as an excuse. The #Inspector General #LymanBKirkpatrick finds:
“CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
Certain "basic conclusions have "been drawn from this survey of the #CubanOperation:
1. The #CentralIntelligenceAgency [#CIA,] after starting to build up the resistance and guerrilla forces inside #Cuba, drastically converted the project into what rapidly..

(18/n) #HPsCommentary

..became an overt #MilitaryOperation. The Agency failed to recognize that when the project advanced beyond the stage of #PlausibleDenial it was going beyond the area of Agency responsibility as well as Agency capability.
2. The Agency became so wrapped up in the military operation that it failed to appraise the chances of success realistically. ”(p143)

*THE CHARLES DE GAULLE INCIDENT OFF THE COAST OF SWEDEN*
PRELUDE: On Feb 17th, 2026, #ThomasNeilson, “head of #Sweden’s..

(19/n) #HPsCommentary

...#MilitaryIntelligence,” said that his country had observed #Russia as it "stepped up" its #HybridWarfare campaign, “Constantly developing its capabilities and was ready to take greater risks and use them. Including what I call advanced #Sabotage.
👉Including assassination plots, serious arson, and attacks on critical societal infrastructure👈." 2)

Only a few days later, on Feb. 28, "A ship from the #SwedishNavy observed a suspicious #Drone during a #MaritimePatrol in...

3) https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/02/27/swedish-navy-intercepts-suspected-russian-drone-nearing-french-aircraft-carrier/

(20/n) #HPsCommentary

...#Oresund. In connection with the observation, the [#Swedish] #ArmedForces took countermeasures to disrupt the suspected #Drone.
Contact with the drone was subsequently lost."
[Source: #Sweden's Armed Forces Spokesperson” 2)

“The incident occurred in the #ØresundStrait, around 13 kilometres from the ship, which was anchored before joining #NATO exercises...

Swedish Navy intercepts suspected Russian drone nearing French aircraft carrier

Swedish defense officials said the craft likely came from a nearby Russian ship.

Defense News

4) https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2026/02/27/swedish-navy-intercepts-suspected-russian-drone-nearing-french-aircraft-carrier/

(21/n) #HPsCommentary

...in the #BalticSea.
Although the >aircraft carrier's radar systems had not seen it<, a #Swedish #Navy vessel spotted the drone during a patrol and activated an electronic #Jamming system to disrupt its navigation and sever the link with its operator. Contact was then lost.“ 4)

According to #GuillaumeVernet, spokesman for the #French...

Swedish Navy intercepts suspected Russian drone nearing French aircraft carrier

Swedish defense officials said the craft likely came from a nearby Russian ship.

Defense News

(22/n) #HPsCommentary

...General Staff, the #Swedish countermeasures used to repel the #Drone away from the nuclear-powered #AircraftCarrier #CharlesDeGaulle “worked perfectly” and did not disrupt the flagship’s activities.” 2)

Now, why is this presumable attack on the only #European #AircraftCarrier on that day so pertinent?
Remember #ThomasNeilson, the #Swedish military intelligence guy? What did he say again, roughly two weeks earlier?
And now let’s have a look at the two prominent...

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https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c1mj3e2nz8ko

(23/n) #HPsCommentary

...in the #CharlesDeGaulle on that fateful day in February:
“#Sweden's Prime Minister #UlfKristersson joined #French Foreign Minister #JeanNoëlBarrot on board the Charles de Gaulle on Friday” 13)

This could and would have triggered #NATO #Article5 10) and not very unlikely, #WorldWarIII as well--if the #US had still heeded its international treaty obligations.
10)

Drone jammed near French aircraft carrier was probably Russian, says Sweden

Sweden's prime minister said it was a serious but not unexpected incident - and a "Russian way of acting that we recognise from other places".

13) https://www.nato.int/en/what-we-do/introduction-to-nato/collective-defence-and-article-5

(24/n) #HPsCommentary

...Two intermediate conclusions:

#Putin might be brazen, but in contrast to other people in power, he is *not* stupid.
So, my take one is that he must have been almost a 100% certain that the #Drone would be destroyed prior to hitting the #CharlesDeGaulle.
The affair could have been exploited as a major PR victory against #Russia by #NATO, so the remaining two pertinent questions, in my view,...are

Collective defence and Article 5

On 4 April 1949, 12 countries from Europe and North America came together in Washington, D.C. to sign the North Atlantic Treaty. NATO’s founding treaty is not long – only 14 articles, just over 1,000 words – and its core purpose is clear and simple: a joint pledge by each country to assist the others if they come under attack.

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