Russia has a fleet of suspected spy ships operating in Nordic waters as part of a program for the potential sabotage of underwater cables and wind farms in the region, according to a joint investigation by the public broadcasters of Sweden, Denmark, Norway and Finland. Steve Hall, ex-CIA chief on Russian operations joins CNN to discuss. #CNN #News
See what happened when journalists filmed suspected Russian spy ship
NATO poses no threat to a non-imperial Russia. If Russia stopped acting like everyone’s enemy all the time, NATO wouldnt be necessary.
@Randy Jacobson Even baddies have rights. But I guess a rules based world order is a bit too complicated a concept for you, eh?
Rússia could say the same thing about NATO
@Gary StewartNATO needs Russia to be an enemy else NATO will lose its relevance. Russia applied but one NATO official said “why should we let the enemy join us”. They made it clear that NATO is an anti-Russian alliance (it used to be an anti-soviet alliance in the past)
@Randy Jacobson
I know the concept of a rules based world order isn’t complicated, it just seems to be too complicated for you.
As for the rest of your comment, if you’ve decided to strawman, you’re going to strawman regardless of what I say.
Russia must pay in spades for it’s criminal war and violations of humanity
Immediately after the NATO countries pay their bill 😁
@Mark Bishop And when will Russia be paying reparations to the people of Siberia?
@Mitch Young Not really.
2:28 It is Not a reaction to NATO’s expansion. It is a reaction to Ukraine not losing the war.
@Zeljko C This is not true. Ukraine is basically contested airspace for both sides, and king of the skies at this point is in fact the SAM-systems which has greatly limited both sides ability to establish air dominance and their strike capabilities. Russian air losses have been very very high. Western doctrines are highly dependent on air power, while Russian doctrines are really not, where the Russian air force is more a side note.
War is not about weapons systems, but operational capacity, what they can achieve, which targets can be hit at what cost. In Ukraine at this point, even western fighters would be operationally limited by layered SAM-threats, and SEED missions would take both time and be high risk. SEED is in it self an art that takes time to master. But, with more modern SAM-systems to Ukraine the Russian air force is also limited as well.
Ukraine’s long range precision ballistic strike capacity, both artillery, rockets and missiles, have surpassed that of Russia, and Ukraine is capable of reaching most of the occupied areas of Ukraine, and allied air and satellite surveillance do make up for the recognitional capabilities of aircraft.
In the north SAM on the Russian side of the border is a problem that is unlikely to be cleared any time soon, if ever. But, in the south, south/east, including Crimea, Russian SAM-sites are more vulnerable and trackable. This enables Ukraine to engage SAM-sites with ballistic systems, like for example Excalibur, HIMARS or GLSDB depending on range, as well as air launched HARM missiles. Systems that Russia wont be able to replace in any meaningful capacity.
And, suppressing Russian ground to air capacity on Crimea or the areas further from the Russian border, will enable even older Mig’s to operate, especially since most Russian aircraft is no longer stationed along the front or on Crimea. This would enable older Russian aircraft to deliver heavy ordinance on Russian positions from with relative safety, using the JDAM-ER delivery systems.
In the north, north/east, ballistic artillery, rocket and missile systems would largely have to replace the strike capacity of aircraft due to SAM contested airspace. Though, sorties can and are still flown by both sides, I’m talking about huge operational limitations, risk and losses here.
@ABQ Pet Waste Removal Have you heard lately about Bayraktar?
Now this is some Great Investigative Reporting. Thank you.
Yep, that kind of research is expensive, that’s why all the nordic public broadcasters got together to do this back at the beginning of the war, this is (a tiny bit) of the results of their work since then.
Something not shown in this video is that the Russians marched onto the deck with weapons in hand.
Not shooting or anything, but definitely threatening the use of weapons.
This is the sort of thing German tourists were doing all over Europe in the 1930s. Collecting and making maps, obtaining railway timetables, documenting electricity lines and gas pipelines, sketching pretty views of roads and factories and ports and airfields, watching military parades, and telling aunt Helga and uncle Adolf all about their trip.
@deer cressman
Probably Liechtenstein!
I agree..from reading many varied history books.
And Jap gardeners, drivers, cooks and farm workers all over that former American colony called the Philippines in the 1930’s. Telling uncle Hirohito about their work in a tropical paradise. Only to surprise their former masters as military officers when the invasion barges hit the beaches.
@Hypo Thebai The difference being the British didn’t invade the US. …
We’ve been watching Russia look back at us for decades. I remember seeing Russian “trawlers” loaded to the gunwales with radar systems just 12 miles of the coast of our research station near Oxnard, CA in 1977. I was doing telemetry work on the AIM-54C Phoenix air-to-air missile at the time. We were monitoring what they were doing; interesting stuff.
@Dr. Mr. Person Guy Russia the best 🇷🇺🇷🇺💪
@Название по умолчанию Best what? Murderers, rapists, liars?
Russian tried to net some ‘big fish’
Reminds me of the late 60’s when I was a merchant seaman. Just past the 12 mile limit of the east coast were Russian fishing trawlers spying on US.
But I was a crew member on a research vessel that was spying on activities in the South Pacific in the late 70’s. I remember in port they brought these men aboard that their title was overseers of some research that was testing the waters.
One of those trawlers drove through the trawl on my grandfather’s little trawler and tried to sink him. He was getting pulled backwards with water coming over his transom and was just lucky enough to cut the cable of his own net to keep from sinking. He was a poor working man and that net cost a lot. I’ve hated Russians ever since. This happened off the Jersey Coast near the Delaware Bay.
Most of the ones we saw were of the Jersey and Virginia shores. They were definitely spy boats, doing a little fishing to look like regular fisherman.
It would be a shame if these ships suffered an accident at sea, and were lost beneath the waves.
Accidents happen, especially at sea
for some reason I read this with a british accent..
Those Russian ships have more antennas than a CIA listening post!
Yep, when the US operated FBM refit Site One out of Holy Loch Scotland we were often ‘greeted’ by Russian AGI’s when headed in or out of Holy Loch. We had methods to prevent them from getting the intel they wanted, but it wasn’t uncommon to see them in the 80’s and 90’s.
Nice boats, Russia.
Would be a shame if something were to… _happen_ to them
Indeed… like something that happened to the nordstream pipeline.
Would be a shame if those ships had “smoking accidents”.
Thanks for keeping an eye on Russian spy ships. They’re fooling no one. Their intentions are antagonistic and malicious. Everyone knows that. Much appreciation for our allies! ❤ from 🇺🇸
And thanks for the Chinese balloons 😅
An old engineer participated in the first undersea video cable installation from the UK to Canada. He said that there were eight cables in it, four for the public broadcasters and four for government and military use.
Would be a damn shame if those “research ships” were to sink
Ye, smoking accidents happen frequently lately in Ruzzia!
Or to accident blow up, like the nordstream pipeline?
@John Rogers
Who said it was accidentally?
Looks like the same fishing trawlers that use to follow us, when we were cruising in the North Atlantic or Mediterranean Sea, 40 years ago. ❤ GOD Bless Everyone
you’re right, Yankee spying equipment is much more modern and sohisticated
Not spying. It’s a “special undercover operation.”
🤣🤣🤣🤣
Similar to America, “It’s not United States aggression,” it’s “Protecting democracy” 😂
Nice ship, shame if something happened to it.
0:19 the ship should’ve identified as “totally not a Russian spy ship” and everyone would’ve had no choice but accept them.😂
A good day to everyone despite the miseries happening in the world