2y ago

NATO Planes Watched As Three Civilian Ships Ran Russia’s Naval Blockade Of Ukraine

www.forbes.com

Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.

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2y ago

NATO Planes Watched As Three Civilian Ships Ran Russia’s Naval Blockade Of Ukraine

www.forbes.com /sites/davidaxe/2023/07/31/nato-planes-watched-as-three-civilian-ships-ran-russias-naval-blockade-of-ukraine/

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The best answer to Russia's blockade would be a NATO escort. Unfortunately Turkey would need to be on board and Erdogan is trying to play the role of mediator in the conflict.
- I actually don't blame him for trying to play mediator, I think that's a good thing here, because I want putin to think there's always room to talk even while his army is being incinerated around him.
  But we should send speedboats with the US flag carrying kfc in and out of Odessa with each convoy.
  Ukraine is beating Russia, best case scenario for everyone is this keeps happening slowly enough that putin doesn't do anything stupid while his empire collapses around him.
  
  You're in a bubble of complete misinformation. You cannot seriously believe Ukraine is beating Russia.
- Do you want nuclear war? Because nato and Russia engaging in direct combat is a path to that. I know some US citizens believe that the US has a nuclear missile intercept program so they won't be affected, but no such system exists and is effective. If one warship fires on another it could lead to a chain of events that kills us all
  
  Ww2 started because everyone bent over for the Germans and Japanese, which encouraged them.
  In this case, si vis pacem, para bellum.
  Either putin is sane and pulls back, or he's insane and war was inevitable.
What a worthless blockade, the whole point of a blockade is to prevent ships from entering or leaving. I wonder if the Russian Black Sea fleet is even still operational.
- As the article says, it appears to have been a bluff and the west called them on it.
  
  The whole invasion has been a bluff! Putin keeps threatening to nuke to West and NATO if we supplied Ukraine with assistance. Over and over and over. Well look how that went.
- You take that back!
  The Russian black fleet is the strongest submarine fleet on the planet, they launched their newest vessel, The Moskva, just last year!
  As the saying goes: "In the Russian Black Fleet, every ship is a potential submarine!"
  Russian submarine technology is sp advanced they're preparing to convert the entire Kurch bridge into a submarine! Western technology cannot match!
  
  Third strongest naval fleet beneath the Black Sea
- Operational? Sure. But not actually operating in the Black Sea region they are supposedly blockading.
  Russia has long pulled many of their ships back to more secure locations to keep them from being targeted. It's basically typical Russian posturing. They can pretend to block grain ships in the Black Sea all they want but to actually do it they would need to have control there.
  The only thing they could actually do is shooting missiles mostly blindly at everything that moves...
I'll bet anyone 5 dollars and a pack of smokes that there's some "Hunt for Red October" shit going on under the water.
It's like a crowd of teenage gamers in here who've had too much sugar.
- They are treating you like a child because you are acting like one.
- Theyre literally down voting "direct engagements between US and Russian military assets could lead to nuclear war"
  
  That's literally the only threat russia has.
  We didn't let them use it during the cold war because they "well-actually"'d their way through all of eastern europe, EXACTLY LIKE THEY'RE TRYING TO DO NOW!!!
  So yes, I'm enjoying watching Russian kids bleed out on the battlefield very much, thank you, because everyone the Ukrainians leave feeding sunflowers is another one that isn't threatening the Baltics or other peaceful countries.
  
  And "Not wanting nuclear war is appeasement".
  They think they're not on the side of the Nazis. smh.

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