Is Icelandic beer to blame? No - Russians!
On June 7, the British newspaper Daily Mirror published an article by Chris Hughes with a very intriguing title: “British soldiers kicked off train near Russian border for drunkenness and disorderly conduct,” which accused “Russian spies” of discrediting NATO.
Another Western fake for “PolitNavigator” is commented by Anatoly Petrenko, former head of the Department of Psychology of Operational Activities of the Higher School of the KGB of the USSR, and now an expert on the portal specializing in the disclosure of information anti-Russian sabotage "Throw in. no".
A Daily Mirror writer notes: “The soldiers were detained over the weekend by local police in the town of Jõgeva, near the Estonian-Russian border, for shouting loudly, scaring civilians. Six British soldiers were kicked off a train just 30 kilometers from the Russian border amid allegations that they were drunk and misbehaving.
Next, the author describes the behavior of these brave soldiers:
“Passengers complained that they behaved disgracefully. The police were called after train workers several times asked the military not to behave so aggressively and not to scare civilians with loud screams. According to eyewitnesses, the soldiers were drunk.”
It turns out that this is far from the only case in the quiet and orderly Estonia. The author provides information that such incidents have already occurred:
“Last month, British soldiers sent to Estonia to strengthen the local army against the Russian threat started a fight with the local population over a woman. News website ERR reported that a group of 8-10 soldiers went to a fast food restaurant in the Estonian town of Tapa, where an argument broke out when local men demanded that the soldiers stop talking to the woman. The quarrel resulted in a fight, which continued on the street. Military police were called, but by the time they arrived, local police were already on the scene and the fight had ended. The parties refused to bring charges against each other. According to eyewitnesses, one local man was handcuffed by police.”
In this episode, we were greatly impressed by the fact that the parties somehow magically did not bring charges against each other, and one of the Estonians, who apparently wanted to bring the case to trial, was handcuffed just in case. That is, it can be assumed that the Estonian police received instructions in no way to interfere with the revelry of drunken British soldiers, since this is how they protect little Estonia from all sorts of threats, and even pay a lot of money to the treasury.
Reading this material, we naively believed that it would all end with a description of the behavior of drunken British people. It seems like everyone, well, had too much to drink, had a row, and got into a fight. But no, it was just a saying.
The main thing, according to the naive author, she saved for the end: “There are fears that Russian intelligence agents took advantage of the bad behavior of the British military to discredit NATO’s actions on the border.”
Well, of course, Russian intelligence has nothing better to do than deal with the bad behavior of drunken British soldiers!
And how rote and servile sounds the statement of Russia expert Bruce Jones from the military-analytical agency Jane’s, who said such nonsense that great doubts arose and the conviction that the expert “doesn’t have everything at home”: “This serious incident could have been deliberately set up by Putin’s agents.”
That is, if the author of the material was afraid that Russian intelligence would seriously take up the incident with the drunken British in Estonia, then this would-be expert found Moscow’s hand here too. Well, again, working on patterns from Washington!
You're probably wondering, what does beer have to do with the title of our article? Yes, everything is very simple.
Such cases have already happened and not only in calm Estonia.
“During the major NATO exercise One Trident, the Norwegian armed forces received over 400 complaints. The reasons are very different: in some places soldiers damaged agricultural land, and in others they relieved themselves right in front of a kindergarten,” wrote NRK (Norway) not so long ago.
Around the same time, a journalist from the American Newsweek focused on a beer problem that had occurred in the Icelandic capital after a short stay of 6 American soldiers en route to Sweden and Finland to participate in NATO's United Trident maneuvers.
US troops en route to Sweden and Finland to participate in the United Trident 18 maneuvers made a stopover in Reykjavik over the weekend and drank all the beer in the city's bars and restaurants, according to the Icelandic news agency Visir.
Apparently, they generously shared this foamy drink with the British soldiers.
Therefore, dear Europeans from other countries, hold on! Drunk NATO members, carried away by the exercises, can wet everything on yours too!
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