DISINFO: The Baltic States keep escalating the situation as if they dream of a serious conflict
SUMMARY
The Baltic States do not have any military significance. The main danger in their behaviour is a constant and ridiculous escalation of the situation as if they dream of a serious conflict. If this conflict starts, the Baltic states will be simply wiped off the map. There is no doubt that this situation goes in line with the [Western] complex pressure on Belarus and Russia.
RESPONSE
This message is a part of the Kremlin’s recurring disinformation narrative about the Baltic states.
The Baltic states are NATO members, which is a defensive alliance. NATO and the Baltic states do not seek confrontation and pose no threat to Russia and Belarus.
Russia’s illegal annexation of Crimea and destabilisation of Eastern Ukraine is the source of NATO’s concerns about the challenge Russia poses to the post-Cold War security order in Europe. As a result, NATO has reinforced the security of the Alliance in the Baltic region. In 2016, at NATO’s Warsaw Summit, it was decided to establish an enhanced forward presence (eFP) to the Baltic states and Poland as of 2017. The decision to establish eFP is based on the main principle of NATO that an attack on one Ally will be considered an attack on the whole Alliance.
See other cases of disinformation connected to the Baltic states: Poland and the Baltic states are provoking NATO for war with Russia and Belarus; NATO will turn the Baltic states into the epicentre of the nuclear explosion and NATO troops in Baltic countries and Poland threaten the security of Russia and Belarus.