Estonia: NATO countries to be ready for a possible military conflict with Russia

After the secret document of the German armed forces preparing for Putin's possible attack on NATO in the summer of 2025, and the already ongoing joint work of German and Lithuanian intelligence to unify the strategy of action (the attack will take place in the Polish-Baltic area, in the "Suval Corridor"), today the Estonian Prime Minister Kaja Kalas resumed his work also in the light of the intelligence information from Tallinn. Considered until now one of the best in Europe, and perhaps the best together with the Poles, threatened by Russia, called on NATO to prepare for war with Russia within 3 years, the "Albanian Post" reported.
Kaya Callas told the British daily "Times" that NATO countries have 3 to 5 years to prepare for a possible military conflict with Russia.
"According to our intelligence estimates, this will take 3 to 5 years and depends mostly on how we maintain our unity and our position vis-a-vis Ukraine."
Kalas specifically cited a report by Estonia's Foreign Intelligence Service which stated that Russia considers the Baltic states to be the "most vulnerable part" of the NATO bloc and may actually launch hostilities against them, moving from a hybrid war that leads for a long time to a "kinetic" field war.
But could Russia really still have a force weakened and arguably tested by the war in Ukraine? According to Kalas, "from the point of view of the Baltic countries, Russia still has enough power to exert real military pressure in the Baltic region."
Callas called for a joint Cold War-style NATO strategy and cited the lack of weapons and the difficulty of quickly sending large numbers of troops to the front line as the main problems. The concern of British intelligence is in the same direction.
London's Ministry of Defense has announced, in a very public and outward-facing way, that the UK will increase its level of participation in NATO's annual Unwavering Defender exercise scheduled for late March.
London will send 20 thousand soldiers. The maneuvers will involve an 8-ship and submarine strike group centered on the Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, as well as F-35 Lightning fighter jets and Poseidon P8 surveillance aircraft.
The theater of action will not coincidentally be Germany and Poland, along with the three Baltic states, to the borders of the Russian Kaliningrad region. Interestingly, while so far NATO exercises have always been conducted as a "training scenario", i.e. with fictitious enemies and fictitious places, in the spring the place will be quite specific and as real as possible, practically the area of the Suval Corridor, and the enemy is quite clear: Moscow.
About 16,000 NATO troops, as well as tanks, artillery and helicopters, will be deployed in Eastern Europe from February to June. The British Royal Navy will host more than 2,000 sailors in the North Atlantic, Norwegian Sea and Baltic Sea. And more than 400 Royal Navy commandos will be deployed beyond the Arctic Circle, forming the core of an airborne task force that must be ready to land in NATO's far northern territories in Europe.
Western intelligence sources said members of the military bloc "will work to try to repel Russian aggression against one of the countries."
Even British Defense Secretary Grant Shapps did not hesitate to name Russia as the "long criminal arm" behind it all.
"Old enemies are resurgent. The battle lines have been redrawn. The tanks are literally on Ukrainian soil. The foundations of the world order are shaking. We are at a crossroads," Shaps explained.
"We are entering a new era and we must be ready to contain our enemies, lead our allies and defend our nation when called upon," the minister added.
Of course, the director of NATO's Center of Excellence for Strategic Communication Janis Sarts pointed out that the scenario described in the secret German armed forces document was a hypothetical situation that was simulated to test the bloc's military capabilities. However, he did not deny it at all, on the contrary.
"The simulation is quite real. The enemy of European and Anglo-American democracies is already well known," he announced. /BGNES