Alexander Mercouris
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Exit Followed By Bear: Russia Drives Away British Destroyer From Sevastopol. Berlin & Paris Talk to Moscow
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Nice socks. You are my staple for global politics. Thank you. I have watched your journalism get stronger as the truth becomes more evident over the last couple of years.
The Duran do a good job, as far as they go.
Combine the Anglo Greek team, the Duran, with the allied N Atlantic team.
viz. “ukcolumn.org”
Thanks, I am Canadian, my formative years were spent in the Yorkshire Dales. The “First Domino” in the US election audits is about to fall in Arizona.
Vlad is very kind.
Should have sunk HMS
Vlad is very intelligent. Don’t know if he is kind or not. But if he had sunk HMS, he would have played into the hands of the Empire by giving them the reaction they were trying to trick him into. He would have given them a credible pretext for starting a “defensive” war against “Russian aggression.”
Vladislav= Vlad
Vladimir= Vova
To call someone like that, and you don’t know them as a friend, is insulting.
Don’t confuse western minds. They’re confused enough as it is.
Mr Putin or the president of Russia.. Official titles only…Okydoaky..👍
MSM has hyped “Russia stages carrier strike exercise near Hawaii” meme lately (in order to justify incursion near Sebastopol?).
The Brits fired warning shots at a Spanish warship near Gibraltar a few years back. What do these thick-headed Brits not understand about such things? Seems their leaders all scored in the lowest 1% on the analogies section of their Brit GRE equivalents.
British Imperial attitudes reductio ad current leadership absurdum …..the world is their bathtub and they can float their rubber duckies anywhere they like.
“Spain insists on a bilateral agreement with the UK over sovereignty, whereas the UK will only discuss sovereignty if Gibraltar is included in the discussions.”
Sounds much like Russia’s position on the Donbass Republics, as incorporated in Minsk II and codified by unanimous vote in UNSC Res. 2202.
What DOESN’T the US,UK,EU, let alone UA get, or want to get, about the Donbass? Hmmm?
Scoundrels, nothing more to be said.
Pounding it into their heads with a 10 lb mallet might do the trick.
Behdety Affluent, I accept your Statesman explanation in regards to HMS Defender, a state of the art Destroyer, that there was a break down in communications at such a critical time. The Captain being overly disciplined as not to confirm these types of orders, a duty full servant. My real hope is that pendulum council was not used to feed into this. I present such council as Macro for the respondent to consider there after, not generally as a dictate. Respects and Gratitude for your efforts. Babi bolted on the doors in india, Meera, opened up..Rama a Sun in the… Read more »
I prefer fact to speculation but in this case, some questions have been gently chipping at my noggin. Why didn’t the Russians pull a Donald Cook on this vessel? 1) Maybe it wasn’t all that it was hyped to be to begin with or 2) If it was, then would it not be prudent of NATO to outfit a vessel with all sorts of sensors, electronics etc. etc and lure the Russians into disabling it, or trying at least and collecting all sorts of valuable data along the way? If this was in fact the scenario, were the Russians too… Read more »
yes, the Russians are too smart to fall for any of the tricks our geniuses in the West are able to come up with. See my comment above.
Why play the same hand twice … The Donald Cook was to Russia a validation of the vulnerability… The data was obtained and will be both analysed and improved as to use during a conflict situation… Return to ramming … they don’t like that as that says you were caught trolling in our territory…
Maybe Russians hoping ship would fire its surekill armed and ready
to fire missiles first…….
Can anyone work out the probability of a warship straying into Russian territory with a BBC journo actually on board.
No doubt Ukrainian hackers were on board too, to fiddle with transmissions to make it appear the Russians hacked the controls to purposely send it into Russian waters.
The WaPo will run that exclusive by noon tomorrow. Have to give it ‘plausible analysis’ time, after all.
According to the UK spokesperson, the vessel took “the direct route from Ukraine to Georgia”, which of course goes 3 kilometres close to sevastopol harbor.
Yeah, right. The UK must be very desperate indeed to make such a fool of herself in public to get whatever support from their poodle master.
When will Monty Python be making a comeback? So much unexploited treasure in the UK these days, esp. with BoJo.
The Daily Mail journalist was there to give ‘gravitas’ to the BBC’s reports, and for backup laughs.
Don’t know but I just calculated 90 seconds for a Shkval to sink it and declare it hit a mine.
Wiser to use a Kinzhal, sink it in 0.90 seconds and declare an albatross hit it.
Clearly Bojo’s statements confirm UK gov determination to cause trouble with their gung ho hooray Henry dimwit policies. Determined somehow to bring things to russophobic hysterical head eg Tom Tugendhat, chair of the UK’s Foreign Affairs Committee slammed the government of Russia’s Vladimir Putin in a pair of tweets on Wednesday. ‘Firing shots at ships in international waters is criminal. Putin’s regime has: Used chemical weapons in the UK, Murdered opponents across Europe, Set explosions in Prague, Invaded and illegally occupied Ukraine and Georgia, Kept the Russian people hostage for a generation,’ he wrote. ‘Now it appears they lied about… Read more »
Quote, “Note Turkey and Ukraine are now publicising firming up agreements even more to get Ukraine up to Nato standards. ” Unquote. L.O.L. Now that sentence is really funny. NATO Standards, L.O.L.
NATO standards are inviolable, unless they decide to violate them, usu. by a vote of one.
Typically, for NATO the more violent the petitioning state, the better so as not to miss the opportunity to incorporate the violence into NATO’s greater good.
In Ukraine’s case, the challenge may have been too much, or too transparent, so NATO subcontracted to its black sheep Turkey, to accomplish the task.
Brits are so colorful in their accusations.
Most – acrually, all – westeen “analysts” missed two things. Too bad nine of them speak any russian.
– russia did not only ditch the U.S. dollar but also the british pound. Ouch.
– together with Vlad’s clear message to the oligarchs during the “state of the nation” speech to getvtheir billions out of london, that should give “perfidious albion” some second thoughts.
That’s the difference between russia and the west: the west is playing silly games. Russia is playing hardball.
What could it buy with British pounds anyway that it doesn’t already have?
“The United Kingdom ranks among world-leading nations for exporting aircraft parts, platinum and gold.”
The platinum and gold are just re-exports of Russian imports anyway. Probably the titanium aircraft parts too.
Navalny’s sidekick promised they would have it all.
I thought the platinum and gold were payments from Russia thieves seeking asylum.
Well, some was from Saudi princes to pay for services rendered. I’d throw the Israelis in there too but they’re sort of a competing clearing house laundry for such funds, so it becomes a bit more complicated.
Saudi ‘prince’, the very idea makes me chuckle. Might as well call Hunter Biden America’s drug czar.
Our lazy media and its master the British government and its knee bending opposition have no idea what ”don’t poke the bear” means. But I now see a change in Russian attitudes towards the arrogant Brits and the EU. You just might poke it too much one day and you will be left to fight the country that won WW11.
Boris must stop playing with his willy, otherwise Matron will just have to cut it off!
Next time around, he’s planning a helicopter drop into Sevastopol.