With its decision of July 1, 2025, the German and Swedish governments are pushing ahead with its piracy files in the Baltic Sea. Action is now to be taken against merchant ships carrying Russian oil “to check the insurance papers”. See HERE.
Due to EU and US sanctions, these ships do not carry Western insurance documents, but are generally insured by Central Asian companies. For a flag state that recognizes such insurance, this satisfies maritime law. It is precisely this maritime law that the European Union now wants to undermine. With arrogant presumption, so-called “renowned” insurance companies are expected to accept this, e.g. Lloyds, which dominated the high seas for centuries as a colonial power in the tradition of the British Empire.
NATO states continue to provoke and have no qualms about overriding the freedom of the high seas, the 1982 United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), which guarantees free, uncontrolled and unhindered passage. The Russian merchant ships referred to as the “shadow fleet” (there is nothing shadowy about them) are also allegedly too old and a danger to our environment. But this is ONLY a pretext. These EU provocations increase the danger of a transition from an economic war to a shooting war in the Baltic Sea.
Let's stop NATO's escalation of war in the Baltic Sea. Instead of economic warfare, sanctions, embargoes and acts of piracy against the Russian Federation, we need global economic cooperation, change through trade and the opening of secure gas and oil pipelines from Russia.
