NATO Fake 'Russian' Drone Provocations Drives Europe Closer to World War III No Evidence of Russian Origin

Sept. 28—Sources in the U.S. intelligence community say that Poland, Romania and other nations alleging attacks from "Russian" drones have presented no convincing evidence that such attacks originated in Russia or were run by Russian operatives. Instead, these American intelligence sources believe that, as the Russians have said, the drones are far more likely to be "false flag" operations intended by NATO and its Ukrainian assets to justify a potential NATO response—one that would bring the world closer to a nuclear showdown with Russia, and which might trigger an American response under Article 5 of the NATO charter.

U.S. Advises Caution on Article 4 Claims

When Poland alleged that the drone attacks had likely come from Russia, it invoked Article 4 of the NATO charter, seeking consultations with and among NATO allies. "What the U.S. told Poland was to calm down, that you have no evidence that this was an attack [none of the drones they recovered had any explosives], and that it came from Russia," said a source. "Our intel people are inclined to think that [Ukrainian dictator Volodymyr] Zelenskyy fired them, although they have made no such claims publicly," said the source.

 When Zelenskyy met with Trump at the United Nations this week, he did not bring up the drone attacks, but did allege that the Russians are acting to provoke NATO, making the absurd claim that they were doing this because they are losing the war so badly—a strange claim to make from a man whose forces have suffered an estimated 1.7 million casualties since Russia began what it calls its "special military operation" in February 2022.

Zelenskyy asked for more anti-drone and anti-missile systems to better fight back drone attacks and was told that this depends on whether the Europeans were willing to cough up the money necessary to purchase them. He reportedly asked Trump to send Ukraine Tomahawk cruise missiles, which have sufficient range to reach Moscow. Trump reportedly laughed at the request.

Hybrid Drone Attacks and Fabricated Evidence

A U.S. intel community source said he believed that Zelenskyy fired the drones from his arsenal of more than 1,000 such Russian weapons at his disposal. In every Russian drone attack on Ukraine, more than half to two-thirds of drones are shot down by Ukrainian defenses. The majority do not explode but go off course and crash. The Ukrainians then capture the drones and, using some for parts to repair others, create new hybrid "Russian" drones; these hybrid models are used to fake a Russian attack on Poland or any other target."

This would tend to be consistent with reports coming out of Poland describing the recovered drones as "held together with duct tape." The Poles were also caught faking the evidence of damage from the drone attacks. A farmhouse depicted in materials from the Ukrainian government with extensive "drone-inflicted" damage turns out to be the same damaged farmhouse shown months ago.

Russia has repeatedly asked for evidence that the drones which attacked Poland were Russian and directed by Russians, as no such evidence has been provided. "There is also the knowledge that space-based telemetry technology available to NATO can provide the total flight path for most, if not all, of these drones," said a source. "Where is that evidence that proves NATO's case? Maybe it shows something else."

Escalation Risks and Historical Parallels

Now, we have drones flying over Denmark, which led to comments about Russia wanting to teach NATO countries a lesson. These have caused some hysterical government and NATO officials to say that such violations require NATO to warn the Russians that if these overflights continue, NATO would be compelled to shoot down the violators and ask questions later, and even to raise the question of enforcing a no-fly zone over Ukraine and adjacent countries.

Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov, in an interview with Russia’s VGTRK journalist Pavel Zarubin, called statements by Western countries about the need to shoot down Russian aircraft irresponsible and dangerous. “Statements that Russian aircraft should be shot down are, to say the least, reckless, irresponsible, and certainly dangerous in their consequences,” Peskov said, according to TASS. He added that what is happening in the European environment is a “self-exciting mechanism...They themselves raise issues and make irresponsible statements.”

Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova warned yesterday that if the Kyiv regime’s plans for false flag operations in Poland and Romania succeed, World War III will be the result. In her Telegram channel, Zakharova drew attention to reports in several Hungarian media outlets about Ukrainian dictator Zelenskyy’s plans to carry out sabotage in Romania and Poland with the aim of blaming Russia.

“His office on Bankovaya Street is preparing its own version of the ‘Gleiwitz incident’—with the aim of creating a casus belli for a war between Russia and NATO,” she explained. “If all this is confirmed, then we must admit: never in modern times has Europe been so close to the outbreak of World War III.”

The Gleiwitz incident was one of a series of provocations on the Polish border carried out by the Nazi SS using operatives wearing Polish uniforms on Aug. 31, 1939, that were used to “justify” the German invasion of Poland the next day; the Germans then killed their own soldiers dressed as Poles in an attempt to make the hoax more real.

"This all has to be calmed down," said a source close to the White House. "The President knows that this is mostly fake news, promoted by NATO and Europe. He may propose that an expert commission of inquiry be put together to investigate Zelenskyy's claims. The Russians would agree to that. I cannot confirm or deny reports that the President has already spoken about this option with Russian President Vladimir Putin."