Can someone with a military background explain why this isn’t an act of war? The victim is a “US-flagged” vessel “at anchor in the North Sea and carrying huge amounts of jet fuel for the US military.” The deliberate attack’s aggressor is a Russian captain.
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Where do you think a Russian captain gets such intel?
Experts will look at this /6
8) The bridge watch on Stena and when did they become aware of the impending collision
Folks….it fucking happens because people are fucking idiots /8
"People are idiots "
The bridge of Solong wasn’t banned properly, if at all. It happens /7
5) Who was on the bridge of the Solong and what was their seniority
6) Was anyone ACTUALLY on the bridge of the Solong?
7) The state of training on the bridge watch /4
1) the previous NAVTACK of Solong which has run this transit before
2) the outer margins of the anchorage the Stena was in IE Was she anchored within a designated anchorage
3) Contents Solongs Captains standing orders book /3
It's true that she was in an overspill ship-park, along with many other vessels, awaiting entry to the Humber estuary - it was 'uncharted' but conventionally accepted.
Did Solong do this run regularly? When her NAVTRACK was planned, was it by her officers who had made this run before /1
Oh but your Orang Utan removed the actual capable officers.
They touched your BOOOOOOOATS!
Pretty high actually
Naval warfare?
Incompetence is still on the table as a cause.
I love a good conspiracy theory, but is this one a step too far...?
https://news.sky.com/story/what-tracking-data-tells-us-about-north-sea-ship-crash-13327024
Too late anyway
I'm thinking Gabbard.
So yeah, it's pretty unfortunate that we (mostly the US and the Germans) spent a couple of decades choosing to sing show-tunes and pretend none of this was happening, instead of opening our fucking eyes and responding to it.
But let's face it, it's pretty much irrelevant since we've now allowed Putinist Nazis to take over our entire government.
So yeah, it's not too reasonable to expect us to act against them now when we're actually on *their side* at this point.
Forensic:-relating to or denoting the application of scientific methods and techniques to the investigation of crime.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2021/10/leaked-dozens-of-cia-informants-killed-captured-or-compromised-report/
This could
Be one of them.
(Boating Under the Influence)
(yes, I know I vigorously promoted Hanlon's Razor to be applied only in reverse, but this is an exception, of scientifically proven 100% likelihood)
the enemy and, and it is us.”
But juridical evidence is vita!
Of course
The information is already openly available, but the tracker makes it easier to access and understand.
https://www.greenpeace.org.uk/news/russia-ukraine-oil-gas-tankers-twitter-bot/
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2) that's how British law proceeds when there's a death. For example, look to the hockey player that died year ish ago. Player was immediately arrested for manslaughter. The captain could be any nationality and they would have been arrested.
He wants to be called a war president.
He wants to do all of the army marches down the streets and all of the big hoopla praising him as being a war president.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn52rglxr62o
Yuk yuk yuk
Someone has to do it in the end anyway.
Was the vessel at an approved anchor spot?
My first two questions off the bat...
AIS data...
It never slowed or attempted to change course.
Is the entire crew Russian?
Who was physically at the helm?
Has the source data been verified (most VTS won't release data without a subpoena... including other nations.)
At the helm, yes Russian.
The entirety of crew, not sure about. Maybe more in the news today. Just waking up here in Hawai'i ☕ ☕ ☕
These things wouldn’t be safe to say in Russia so why would you say them here?
before or after WWII?
Apparently, the ship itself failed inspections twice. “emergency steering position" was unreadable.
And if one does? What are the considerations? Reciprocal and proportional under LOAC and then there is “Just War theory”. Pause the hyperbole , focus on the US.
Little green men and asymmetric warfare?
Amazing huh. Review this.
https://irregularwarfarecenter.org/wp-content/uploads/Blind-Sided_20_Feb_FINAL.pdf
The fact that we let them get away with it every time is a feature.
@markwarner.bsky.social
@timkaineva.bsky.social
In my opinion, it becomes a theory if you replace wimp with felon.
"the US president is a gutless felon"
I'm not an expert though.
Test failed.
All other countries are watching this in disbelief and embarrassment.
If we don’t stand up now, we’re totally fucked.
We’re not far from the DC area and my family has just selected a location to meet, should we have to leave our homes.
I cannot believe in 2025, we’re having to have this conversation.
I haven’t watched the news in months and most days I can’t handle the internet either.
How can so many Americans be so fucking stupid? I will never understand it.
The problem is Trump, for all intents and purposes on Russia's side.
We've an illegitimate, criminal president (sec. 3-14th Amend).
Republicans are too scared to remember what they swore an oath to.
May this regime's demise be swift and certain.
regulated militia” that exists in the US to take action against tyrannical governments?
Or is the 2nd amendment just used as an excuse by boys wanting toys?
The role of a well-regulated militia is, I think (many grains of salt), broadly filled by the states' National Guards, which likely aren't good for coups.
What is really ridiculous is all the arguments used in favour of almost free access to guns. The US only has to be compared to any other western country to show the arguments are BS
Stupid MAGA-Morons.
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Countries insulted by the cosplay emperor of ex-USA: 34
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Trump is so weak.
If it isn't an act by a state it's not an act of war.
They smell a yank rat.
And you know what the (first term) Trump administration did? Nothing
It’s supposed to be an act of war🤷♂️
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They would’ve lynched him an hour after the crash.
How dare he!!???”
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There's a complex play underway, and although suspicions arise we should await firmer osint evidence.
(just like that Kelly fella, zooming around in space for that horrible commie institution NASA)
So he was making a blow for all freedom-loving peasants of the great motherland!
The facade, Russian is strong and superior is OVER!
#Russia is WEAK and BROKEN. #Putin has turned Russia into a TOILET. The people are weak, addicted, depressed and the women are barren or against supplying soldiers for Putin's war.
I can tell you this much: He will never go to sea as a captain again, since that cost the owners a fortune.
https://www.france24.com/en/europe/20250312-captain-cargo-ship-crashed-into-us-tanker-russian-national-owner-says-jet-fuel
https://youtu.be/cqFiX-O4S6M?si=P_SwmXvjC4Usj_2R
The video was informative! I learned a lot!
To sum the video up: 99% confident that it had to do with fatigue, low numbers of crew and a gruelling schedule.
https://news.sky.com/story/what-we-know-about-north-sea-oil-tanker-and-cargo-ship-collision-13325883
Sorry. I can't gift it as not a subscriber.
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/03/12/captain-of-crashed-cargo-ship-is-russian-national/?ICID=continue_without_subscribing_reg_first
Russia has a proven track record of Western industrial sabotage, which has accelerated in recent years.
But … Krasnov will not do it?
Easy to call anti Tesla protests Terrorists?
But, I did spend nights at a Holiday Inn during Nine Years in the USAF and 11 Years in the USN; starting at the end of the Vietnam Conflict.
I think the term, "Act Of War", is Overused, or Used Too Freely these days.
For my family's sake, I loathe to look for any excuse for War.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-russia-ukraine-sanctions-intelligence-aid-49d2b3e212cae2967abe19a48ccb306b
-IMO
One (probably the above) was an escalation on sensor/solar flare, the other (later I think) was (Russians) mis-interpreting what looked like (nuclear-)hot-arming a bunch of bomber jets...solved by brave counter-spy.
The other two..not so much
Mine, both, are 1983.
(see German TV-docu)
Stanislav Petrov is the one that didn't push the button on sat-sensors gone haywire on solar-glare (all systems indicating a massive USA-launch):
https://www.welt.de/kultur/history/article13888816/Wie-Offizier-Petrow-den-III-Weltkrieg-verhinderte.html
'Der Tag, an dem die Welt am Abgrund stand.'
(covering both incidents)
The mis-interpreted hot-arming (massive NATO) exercise was Arch-something.
He was out of uniform.
Now arresting him and shooting him to serve as a warning to others ….
I'll let @mercoglianos.bsky.social fill you in. He's likely more educated on this topic than anyone else here.
https://youtu.be/a03EAv2vZO8
That captain only had to know it was there. That's all.
He didn't care he would be arrested because, back home, the peasants see him as a hero.
The food and housing is better in a UK jail than at home too.
I know what you want it to be. But it's very likely not what you want it to be. Don't let hate overcome objectivity.
Hanlon's razor applies here.
Watch the video of the track. Relevant timestamp is 7:15 and on
https://youtu.be/a03EAv2vZO8?si=K8tgyxOV3t2tp_sN&t=435
Who ran the FSB immediately before being elected president, and presumably has been directing GRU since then..?
Please give our investigative services a chance, we don't want another death because they boarded to get the box before it was safe !
https://news.sky.com/story/what-we-know-about-north-sea-oil-tanker-and-cargo-ship-collision-13325883
https://www.ernst-russ.de/en/
https://infopelaut.com/daftar-perusahaan-pelayaran/ernst-russ-ag/
I mean, Google is our friend.
https://news.sky.com/story/what-we-know-about-north-sea-oil-tanker-and-cargo-ship-collision-13325883
But let's not argue minor details.
Anyway, he's being charged with negligent manslaughter, with wouldn't even be a death penalty crime in the U.S.
If it was one person, they may well have been asleep or drunk.
What is your experience on ships?
Which paper do you hold?
Perhaps wait for the investigation to be completed before we start killing people.
Granted, not the way the U.S. likes to do things, but across the pond they still believe in individual rights.
They are pretty much always accidents due to negligence.
All I hear is crickets from the US government...
🖕 #Krasnov
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Ship crashes into another ship carrying fuel for US military aircraft....
US military aircraft no doubt involved with the conflict in Ukraine
The conflict in Ukraine caused by the Russians
The Captain of the offending vessel is a Russian
As Sherlock Holmes would say-
'I hate coincidences'
Their gov. says differently.. so we will see.
Especially after losing the fuel on the cargo ship.
Have you seen how they treat the majority of the population in the US?
They are simultaneously the richest country in the world and bordering on third world conditions.
The billionaires have extracted so much value out of the workers that life expectancy is falling!
Shithole.
They have a government infiltrated/overrun by Russian Assets.
YES RUSSIA IS ATTACKING EUROPE.
Yes it’s time the continent confronted this truth fully.
Ukraine is the front line and needs help defeating them militarily.
Trump is such a brilliant negotiator.
With Trump in office, it's Putin he answers to. Mystery solved.