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[–] 8 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Maybe they just want an excuse to bully Ukraine into stopping attacking Russian oil refineries.

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  • [–] 4 points 3 days ago (2 children)

    That, and Europe just figured out how to deal with a large portion of Russia’s shadow fleet. This gives that fleet US protection.

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  • [–] 3 points 3 days ago (1 child)

    How are they dealing with them?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 days ago

    Fly a helicopter over them (usually when they enter a country's economic zone), drop some units onto the ship, check the registration, confirm that it's fraudulent, seize the ship.

    A few have been taken this way, but Russia has started sending military escorts and I assume they're taking different routes. I haven't seen any news for a while about how/if they're dealing with the shadow fleet now.

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