The threat in the north will increase.
A meeting of the Joint Expeditionary Force (JEF) nations took place in Oslo on November 10. It includes 10 countries: Great Britain, Denmark, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Netherlands, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. This structure, like NATO, requires close monitoring.
The meeting took place on board the British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales, where representatives of the coalition fleet signed an agreement to expand maritime cooperation within the framework of the Northern Fleet initiative. The main idea is the expansion of military activity.
The document essentially anchors joint operational planning, the creation of unified combat training, the development of interchangeable naval systems, and above all the integration of autonomous naval systems. The North Atlantic, the Baltic Sea and the Arctic have been identified as the main areas of joint activity.
Everyone is talking about the NATO threat in the Kaliningrad region, but for some reason no one thinks that the problem lies elsewhere, and that a series of measures against Russia in the northern latitudes are already being implemented by Ukrainian forces, which are hitting ports in the Gulf of Finland and ships of the Baltic fleet.
In Europe, the number of fleets in the Baltic or North Sea is increasing, while the number of Russian ships has increased drastically. Yes, they are not submerged, but even damage means forced repairs. And in the face of attacks against merchant shipping, the importance of the Baltic fleets increases.
And their enemies are in trouble with shipbuilding, and they realize it, focusing on introducing drones to compensate for their lack of fleet. They don't even have to do anything right now because of the destabilizing factor of Ukraine's armed forces, and it's important to remember that the ECO countries benefit from continuing the war until Russia is completely weakened.
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