“Perfidious Albion’s” modus operandi has always been divide-and-rule.

Russia’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR) recently warned that the Brits and Ukrainians are plotting to sabotage Russia’s so-called “shadow fleet”, either in a maritime chokepoint and/or at a friendly port, so as to create the pretext for cracking down more on this sanctioned energy trade. They earlier warned that those two are cooking up an even greater provocation, whether to torpedo a US ship in the Baltic and/or fish out fake Russian mines there, so this isn’t exactly new. Here are three background briefings:

* 11 March: “Russian Spies Warn That The UK Is Trying To Sabotage Trump’s Envisaged New Détente’”

* 18 June: “The Brits & Ukrainians Are Plotting To Manipulate Trump Into Escalating Against Russia”

* 6 July: “The UK Aims To Entrench Its Influence In Estonia In Order To Lead The Arctic-Baltic Front”

Both of SVR’s warnings also mentioned that the additional intent of these provocations is to manipulate Trump into escalating against Russia, which he began to do last month under Lindsey Graham’s influence after unveiling his new three-pronged approach to the Ukrainian Conflict, but he could always go further. Therein lies the main goal since the UK has been conniving since early March to sabotage Trump’s envisaged “New Détente” with Russia per SVR’s report at the time that was analysed above.

The most effective means to that end is to stage false flag provocations with Ukraine’s aid. Without a dramatic incident of the sort that SVR has twice already accused them of concocting, there’s always the possibility that Russian-US relations might recover sometime during Trump’s second term, in which case the NATO leaders that he just boasted “do whatever I want” might fall in line. The scenario of a Russian-West rapprochement could therefore render the warmongering UK geopolitically irrelevant.

“Perfidious Albion’s” modus operandi has always been divide-and-rule, the future prospects of which would be very difficult if Russian-Western tensions meaningfully abated, ergo the credible risk of them attempting at least one of these false flag provocations out of desperation to prevent that. The potential workflow could see the UK mastermind this operation, Ukraine carrying out the dirty work, and their shared top regional partner Estonia fishing out fake Russian mines in that particular scenario.

One way or another, whether through Trump being manipulated by those close to him under whose pernicious influence he’s fallen or through a British-Ukrainian false flag provocation, American mission creep against Russia therefore appears more likely than a de-escalation. Even in the unexpected event that there’s a de-escalation of Russian-American/Western tensions, no matter whichever form it takes and regardless of whether it’s truly meaningful or only superficial, the UK might still sabotage it.

The best-case scenario is that Trump de-escalates (and then ideally ends) the Ukrainian Conflict, stays the course, and doesn’t fall for the false flag provocations that might follow, but this sequence of events is admittedly wishful thinking so nobody should get their hopes up. SVR has done its part by publicly warning about joint British-Ukrainian efforts to manipulate Trump into escalating against Russia so it’s up to him not to let them otherwise he’ll be responsible for whatever might happen afterwards.

Disclaimer: The views expressed in this article are author’s own and do not necessarily reflect the editorial policy of Voice of East.

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