{"id":44521,"date":"2025-01-03T18:26:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:26:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/?p=44521"},"modified":"2025-07-02T07:45:03","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:45:03","slug":"russian-warships-may-start-escorting-shadow-fleet-tankers-denmark-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/russian-warships-may-start-escorting-shadow-fleet-tankers-denmark-warns\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian Warships May Start Escorting Shadow Fleet Tankers, Denmark Warns"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>by Tyler Durden<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With NATO on a collision course with a Trump-sized iceberg, its member states are scrambling to escalate conflicts with Russia to ensure the money keeps flowing, and Denmark is certainly doing its part by warning in late December that&nbsp;<strong>Russia\u2019s navy may start escorting the so-called shadow fleet tankers through Danish straits&nbsp;<\/strong>to escalate provocations against NATO countries. Of course, Russia has done nothing of the sort, but with Denmark now in control of the narrative, the actual warships will belong to the West and will sail &#8220;defensively&#8221; in order to provoke Russia into doing just what the West plans on doing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">According to the Danish Defense Intelligence Service, threats against Denmark have become \u201cmore serious,\u201d and Russia now has more options to challenge NATO\u2019s members with \u201ca more threatening military behavior.&#8221; This could include letting Russian warships escort tankers exporting millions of barrels of Moscow\u2019s petroleum through the Baltic Sea, on which Russia, naturally, has numerous ports, and so Denmark&#8217;s &#8220;warning&#8221; is about as serious as saying the US may deploy more jack ups in the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/assets.zerohedge.com\/s3fs-public\/inline-images\/baltic%20ports.png?itok=8gtPFrcX\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zerohedge.com\/s3\/files\/inline-images\/baltic%20ports.png?itok=8gtPFrcX\"><\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>\u201cIf this happens, it will increase the level of tension,\u201d&nbsp;<\/strong>the agency said, not saying that an increase in the level of tension is precisely what the agency wants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Ironically, all this takes place years after Europe intentionally turned a blind eye to smuggled Russian oil, well aware that if said oil was taken away fully from the market, crude prices would soar, which in a world riddled with inflation is not acceptable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twelve Northern European nations including Denmark earlier this week announced they would introduce checks on insurance policies of passing Russian tankers. This could be followed up with more tangible actions for ships falling short with their cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Denmark will play a crucial role in the implementation of those checks, as its narrow straits are a critical trade artery through which Russian oil has flowed largely unrestrained since the start of the full-scale war in Ukraine, helping fund President Vladimir Putin\u2019s war economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Russia is also expected to display more risky behavior toward civil shipping and aviation, Denmark\u2019s foreign intelligence service said. Its toolkit is likely to include military exercise activities near NATO territory, as well as jamming in large geographical areas \u201cwithout regard to ships\u2019 and aircraft\u2019s communications and GPS signals,\u201d according to the report.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">A more threatening behavior toward Denmark\u2019s and other NATO countries\u2019 military aircraft and ships similarly \u201cposes a risk of misunderstandings and minor collisions both in the Baltic Sea and in the Arctic,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Tyler Durden With NATO on a collision course with a Trump-sized iceberg, its member states are scrambling to escalate&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44522,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[58,50,56,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-international","category-military","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44523,"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44521\/revisions\/44523"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omegatv.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}