This is probably the single biggest security oversight by Europe's inc. UK; allowing a nation that already sees itself at war with the West to operate and actively attack and sabotage with impunity.
Russia is a terrorist state, knows no boundaries, and destroys indiscriminatley. This must stop!..
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- End the free movement of the shadow fleet, by force if required
- sanction dual application technologies fully
- remove any Russian symps in any intelligence agency everywhere
- blacklist/block/sue misinformation channels promoting Russian disinfo
- strike back against sabotage directly
🎯 Great read and another valid reason why we should all do more to help Ukraine win the war faster and bring it to an end before we also need to pay for more Russian collateral damages.
The free world should carry out a coordinated action where they stop and detain all vessels in the shadow fleet until the insurance issues are resolved.
Legally, it would be a gray zone, but given that two oil tankers have recently sunk........
And, of course, it would hit Russia extremely hard.
Maybe if one a week mysteriously started sinking, the problem would be resolved pretty quickly when the rest, fled for safe harbors and stopped transporting goods.
I wonder how many of those ships that would need to mysteriously sink, before russia would be forced to pull them to safe harbor and stop operating them.....Or lose them if they did not.
Why doesn’t Europe just stop and impound them? They have no known owner, so who‘d call for their release and if so, checking all necessary information might take some time. It’s time we played a little rough ball, ffs!
No insurance? No international waters for you. Oil spills don’t care, so F%ck You
Only if you blockade flagged ships.
Officially, to whom would we have to send the declaration ;)
Russia would have to acknowledge them as Russian, thus admitting circumventing sanctions …
The whole reason for a shadow fleet is to deny its association to Russia.
Yes and why should only we adhere to gray zones? If they are Russians, get Insurance while you wanna sail ‚near‘ our shores. If they are Chinese? Why are they uninsured and the Chinese depend more on free shipping lanes. All other possible owners? Comply if you ever want to come to European again.
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Russia is a terrorist state, knows no boundaries, and destroys indiscriminatley. This must stop!..
- End the free movement of the shadow fleet, by force if required
- sanction dual application technologies fully
- remove any Russian symps in any intelligence agency everywhere
- blacklist/block/sue misinformation channels promoting Russian disinfo
- strike back against sabotage directly
Legally, it would be a gray zone, but given that two oil tankers have recently sunk........
And, of course, it would hit Russia extremely hard.
Long as it puts him out of the fight, mission accomplished 👍
No insurance? No international waters for you. Oil spills don’t care, so F%ck You
Officially, to whom would we have to send the declaration ;)
Russia would have to acknowledge them as Russian, thus admitting circumventing sanctions …
The whole reason for a shadow fleet is to deny its association to Russia.