I dont get why they would target baltimore they could target san pedro CA and easily do 10 times the damage
There's 2 quick response military supply ships now stuck in Baltimore, and 2 Russian vessels headed to the Red Sea for the first time in who-knows-when.
IF a NATO terrorist attack was coordinated in the Russian capital to send the message "we can hit you anywhere", the same message was just sent next to the U.S. capital.
IF this was an accident, it is one
enormous coincidence in light of Nuland's statements & State Department warnings.
This is strikingly similar to the Turkish downing of a Russian SU-24, & the "coincidence" of the Turkish bombing of the Airforce barracks a week later.
Russia is the only country in the world that has the capability of wiping the U.S. off the map with nuclear hypersonics, of which there is no defense.
They've showed amazing restraint since 2014 through current.
The message most analysts, and myself get from this, is that psychopaths do not control Russian military policy.
After breaking NATO agreements 200x since the Cold War agreements, it wasn't until Crimea, now Ukraine, that their red lines were implemented.
NATO(U.S.) has broken every agreement, calling them "outdated".
When Russia asked to join NATO prior to 2014, it went from "maybe" to NO during the Clinton admin., despite there being no reason to exist post cold war.
"New World Order" has exited every President's lips from Bush Sr. to Biden, save Trump.
So to answer your question, it's not about exerting more damage, it's a "do you really wanna go there?" message.