(29/9n) #HPsCommentary

...confirmed that the deployment will include the #AircraftCarrier #CharlesDeGaulle, eight frigates, and two #Mistral-class amphibious helicopter carriers. The force is expected to operate across the #Mediterranean Sea, the #RedSea, and potentially near the Strait of #Hormuz,…”5)

5) armyrecognition.com/news/navy-…

France Sends Carrier Charles de Gaulle and a Dozen Warships in Largest Naval Deployment to Middle East

France deploys carrier Charles de Gaulle, eight frigates and two Mistral ships to protect Mediterranean and Red Sea shipping routes.

^{www.armyrecognition.com}

(24/n) #HPsCommentary

...Two intermediate conclusions:

#Putin might be brazen, but in contrast to other people in power, he is *not* stupid.
So, my take one is that he must have been almost a 100% certain that the #Drone would be destroyed prior to hitting the #CharlesDeGaulle.
The affair could have been exploited as a major PR victory against #Russia by #NATO, so the remaining two pertinent questions, in my view,...are

13) nato.int/en/what-we-do/introdu…

(23/n) #HPsCommentary

...in the #CharlesDeGaulle on that fateful day in February:
“#Sweden's Prime Minister #UlfKristersson joined #French Foreign Minister #JeanNoëlBarrot on board the Charles de Gaulle on Friday” 13)--👉just whenthe massive #Russian #Drone was launched towards the flagship👈

This could and would have triggered #NATO #Article5 10) and not very unlikely, #WorldWarIII as well--if the #US had still heeded its international treaty obligations.
10)

13)
bbc.com/news/articles/c1mj3e2n…

Drone jammed near French aircraft carrier was probably Russian, says Sweden

Sweden's prime minister said it was a serious but not unexpected incident - and a "Russian way of acting that we recognise from other places".

^{Paul Kirby (BBC News)}

(22/n) #HPsCommentary

...General Staff, the #Swedish countermeasures used to repel the #Drone away from the nuclear-powered #AircraftCarrier #CharlesDeGaulle “worked perfectly” and did not disrupt the flagship’s activities.” 2)

Now, why is this presumable attack on the only #European #AircraftCarrier on that day so pertinent?
Remember #ThomasNeilson, the #Swedish military intelligence guy? What did he say again, roughly two weeks earlier?
And now let’s have a look at the two prominent...