• Optional@lemmy.worldOP
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    2 days ago

    You don’t have to make this stuff up.

    Srs tho, if the russian navy is escorting oil tankers, how is it possibly considered a “dark fleet”? Is that about as official as it gets?

    • FishFace@piefed.social
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      1 day ago

      The dark fleet is just the ships that break laws to try and circumvent sanctions placed on Russia. Being escorted doesn’t change that.

    • cecilkorik@lemmy.ca
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      2 days ago

      because we are expected to trust “the system” and not our own lying eyes. the system is working as intended.

  • gaiussabinus@lemmy.world
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    This is the ship that fired at a sailboat with a pair of seniors on it in the English channel. Great Briton should impound the ship and arrest the crew for endangerment.

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      1 day ago

      The ship should fire its cannons to propel it backwards. That would get it some distance, I’m sure!

  • Senator Collins@aussie.zone
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    2 days ago

    Well, there are a lot of these ships going around the world all the time, and very seldom does anything like this happen. I just don’t want people thinking that frigates aren’t safe.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works
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    It’s pretty funny watching the Russian Navy categorically fail at meaningful and consistent power projection. Like, yeah, nobody wants to directly confront one of their warships, and with good reason - it’d likely be used as a (paper thin) justification for some sort of strategic (possibly military) escalation against the country that confronted them (or more likely, against NATO and/or the EU in general). But given their ships are evidently so poorly logistically supported, under fueled (or just kept out far too long)such that they are forced to drift in the English Channel, and unable to be supported by modern supply vessels capable of efficiently executing replenishment-at-sea… honestly, the Battle of Tsushima vibes are only getting stronger 😛