{"id":1542446,"date":"2025-06-18T17:40:00","date_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/?p=1542446"},"modified":"2025-06-18T17:40:00","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T21:40:00","slug":"the-brits-ukrainians-are-plotting-to-manipulate-trump-into-escalating-against-russia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/the-brits-ukrainians-are-plotting-to-manipulate-trump-into-escalating-against-russia\/1542446\/","title":{"rendered":"The Brits & Ukrainians Are Plotting To Manipulate Trump Into Escalating Against Russia"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brits & Ukrainians Are Plotting To Manipulate Trump Into Escalating Against Russia<\/span><\/p>\n

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Authored by Andrew Korybko via Substack,<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Russia\u2019s Foreign Intelligence Agency (SVR)\u00a0warned<\/a>\u00a0that the Brits and Ukrainians are preparing two false flag scenarios in the Baltic Sea. <\/strong><\/p>\n

The first one would see Ukrainian-transferred Soviet\/Russian torpedoes explode near a US ship there and a supposedly malfunctioning one will then be found to implicate Russia in the alleged attack<\/p>\n

The second, meanwhile, will involve Ukrainian-transferred Soviet\/Russian mines fished out of the Baltic Sea and presented as proof of a Kremlin plot to sabotage international shipping.<\/p>\n

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These perfidious provocations are being employed to manipulate Trump into escalating against Russia after Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth\u00a0announced<\/a>\u00a0in mid-February that the US won\u2019t extend Article 5 mutual defense guarantees to NATO countries\u2019 troops that might deploy to Ukraine.<\/strong> That scenario was the initial one that was planned for getting him to pull out of talks with Putin and then double down on support for Ukraine, but his team preemptively scuttled it through Hegseth\u2019s announcement.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why efforts are now underway to organize a false flag attack against a US ship in the Baltic and\/or frame Russia as a threat to international shipping through the fishing out of its mines there. The Baltic has already been a so-called \u201cNATO lake\u201d since even before Finland and Sweden\u2019s joined NATO given their prior shadow membership in the bloc, however, so it\u2019s unrealistic that Russia could really carry out either of these two operations undetected even if it wanted to.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here are some background briefings:<\/p>\n

* 11 March: \u201cRussian Spies Warn That The UK Is Trying To Sabotage Trump\u2019s Envisaged \u2018New D\u00e9tente\u2019<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 24 March: \u201cPutin\u2019s Senior Aide Patrushev Shared Some Updates About The Arctic & Baltic Fronts<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 22 April: \u201cEstonia Might Become Europe\u2019s Next Trouble Spot<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 1 June: \u201cRussia\u2019s Military Build-Up Along The Finnish Border Will Likely Be The New Normal<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

* 3 June: \u201cThe Russian-Ukrainian Talks Are At An Impasse That Only The US Or Brute Force Can Break<\/a>\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

To summarize, they detail the contextual evolution of this scenario from SVR\u2019s prior warnings of the UK\u2019s intent to sabotage the Russian-US talks on Ukraine to the motives of regional actors (Estonia and Finland) in going along with this, ending with the diplomatic impasse that defines today\u2019s state of affairs. About that, if the US doesn\u2019t coerce Ukraine into the concessions that Russia demands for peace but also doesn\u2019t wash its hands of this conflict, then it might very well double down on its involvement instead.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The\u00a0reasonable speculation<\/a>\u00a0that Trump knew about Ukraine\u2019s strategic drone strikes against Russia in advance coupled with the\u00a0latest speculation<\/a>\u00a0that he deceived Iran with duplicitous diplomacy doesn\u2019t do much to inspire confidence in him personally since he could possibly be in on these false flag plots too. Despite Putin\u2019s bonhomie with Trump, which was recently expressed through their\u00a0most recent call<\/a>, some in Russia are beginning to suspect Trump of double-dealing.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s therefore imperative that he preemptively commit to not escalating against Russia if either of these two false flag scenarios transpire just like Hegseth preemptively averted the deployment of NATO countries\u2019 troops to Ukraine <\/strong>(at least for now) by declaring that Article 5 won\u2019t extend to them. It\u2019s unclear whether Trump read SVR\u2019s warning or if he can rely on his advisors to inform him (unless Putin told already him), however, so he might not even be aware of this and could thus be manipulated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Tyler Durden<\/a><\/span>
\nWed, 06\/18\/2025 – 13:40<\/span><\/p>\n

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