Overview
- Jonson claims serious incidents in the Baltic stopped after NATO launched the Baltic Sentry mission and calls the timing unlikely to be coincidental.
- He accuses Russia of conducting hybrid operations that target seabed infrastructure and leverage a growing shadow fleet for risky provocations.
- He says Sweden and NATO hold the advantage in presence and monitoring, leaving Russia with constrained movement from its Baltic bases in Kaliningrad and St. Petersburg.
- He describes comprehensive awareness built on sensors from seabed to sky and says Sweden tracks vessels and signals in the Öresund with high precision.
- Jonson urges a European shift into a ‘war mode’ posture, as Germany’s Boris Pistorius signals deterrence by proposing nationwide muster of young men.