Have you seen the absolute garbage Russian Telegram channels are pushing lately? They take a simple map, draw a big red scary line and a blue line on it, and suddenly they expect everyone to believe World War III has officially started. A recent viral post from the Mash channel is a perfect example of this pathetic panic. They seriously claimed that Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia officially opened their skies for attacks on St. Petersburg. Think about how stupid that sounds for just one second. If NATO countries actually officially announced they were letting weapons fly through their territory to bomb Russia, it would be front-page global news everywhere, not a random angry post on a sketchy social media channel.
But they desperately need their readers to believe this nonsense. Why? Because the physical reality is way too humiliating for them to admit out loud. The simple truth is that Ukraine is successfully hitting targets deep inside Russia, like big oil refineries and shipping ports near St. Petersburg. These flying machines are traveling almost a thousand kilometers right over Russian heads. Instead of honestly admitting that their expensive multi-billion dollar air defense systems are totally useless and cannot protect their own cities from a slow-flying object, they have to invent a massive cartoon villain. So, they come up with this giant conspiracy theory. They tell their audience that it is physically impossible for drones to fly straight over Russian regions like Bryansk or Tver without being shot down immediately. Therefore, they say, the drones must be flying a sneaky, magical alternative route over Belarus, Poland, and the sea.
It is a classic excuse from a loser. They cannot catch the drones themselves, so they instantly blame the neighbors. The propagandists use a tiny piece of real information to build this giant mountain of lies. It is entirely true that a few drones crashed in the Baltics recently. But they definitely did not take off from there, and they were not using a special safe corridor provided by the government. What really happened is that electronic warfare simply knocked them completely off their planned target course. They got lost, flew the wrong way, and accidentally crossed into Baltic airspace before running out of fuel or just crashing into the ground.
This is exactly how fake news about Ukrainian drones is manufactured every single day for the domestic Russian audience. The authorities in the Baltic states only confirmed the basic fact that they found the broken wreckage of stray drones in their fields. They never said anything about allowing them to fly there on purpose. But Russian media takes that boring confirmation of a crash, twists the words completely upside down, and screams loudly that NATO is organizing the attacks. They want their people to feel surrounded by evil enemies because it distracts them from asking the most obvious question: why can't their own government protect the sky right above their homes? It is pathetic, it is desperate, and if you look at the real facts for more than five seconds, the whole terrifying map story falls apart completely.
