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Time "The highest-ranking official to put forward this version of events is the European Union's rapporteur on piracy and a former commander of the Estonian armed forces, Admiral Tarmo Kouts. In an interview with TIME, he says only a shipment of missiles could account for Russia's bizarre behavior throughout the monthlong saga. 'There is the idea that there were missiles aboard, and one can't explain this situation in any other way,' he says. 'As a sailor with years of experience, I can tell you that the official versions are not realistic . . .
On orders from the Kremlin, Defense Minister Anatoly Serdyukov sent a completely disproportionate force, including destroyers and submarines, to look for the vessel. It took five days for them to find it, the Defense Ministry said, even though the Foreign Ministry later announced that it was fully aware of the Arctic Sea's coordinates the entire time. To fly the alleged pirates and the crew back to Moscow - a group of only 19 men - Russia dispatched two enormous military-cargo planes. And then on their arrival, the ship's crew was detained along with the alleged hijackers for days of questioning, with no access to their families or the media . . .
(and here's the kicker) But this theory, which some Russian analysts put forward in the days after the Arctic Sea was rescued and which Kouts agreed with in his interview with TIME, has been vehemently denied by Russia's envoy to NATO,
Dmitri Rogozin, who says Kouts should stop 'running his mouth.'"
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Because, if he doesn't, especially being an Estonian, he will be knocked off.
Rogozin is a loose cannon (even by Russian standards) and he's a total nutter. If he's saying it didn't happen, then you know it did.
If I were Admiral Tarmo Kouts, I'd be getting people to taste my soup and start my car for me.