The much-provoked head of the Russian Federation has seemingly had enough of NATO nations’ provocations.
Fed up to the back teeth with needling by the Western Alliance, he has issued a stern warning.
Russia could seize ships carrying Western cargo in retaliation for similar actions against Russian maritime trade, President Vladimir Putin has warned.
There have been several incidents in recent months in which Western militaries have seized vessels that their governments accused of being part of a so-called Russian ‘shadow fleet’.
Putin warned on Wednesday during a meeting with Pacific Fleet commanders that Moscow could take retaliatory measures wherever it deemed necessary.
‘Some nations are violating the Law of the Sea by trying to restrict the movement of our civilian traders.
High Seas Piracy
They recently came up with the idea of seizing our ships and selling off our plundered property. This is certainly nothing short of piracy and robbery,’ Putin said.
‘If such a policy is implemented in practice, we will be forced to take mirror responses. And not necessarily in the waters where our ships are being raided. We’ll do it wherever and anywhere we see fit,’ he added.
Russia knows where Western Vessels Ply
Pacific Fleet Commander Adm. Viktor Liina reported in response that the Russian military has detailed information about Western commercial traffic.
‘From April 24 to August 6 of 2026, 1,001 ships passed through the Russian exclusive economic zone, including 379 with flags of unfriendly nations,’ he said.
Rogue Nations
‘That includes 273 general cargo ships and 71 tankers, including 26 under the British flag and nine under the French flag.’
The UK and France have carried out several prohibitions of supposed Russian ‘shadow fleet’ vessels.
Plunder on the High Seas
In June, The Telegraph reported that British authorities were considering selling around 100,000 tons of Russian crude seized from a sanctioned tanker and using the proceeds to benefit Ukraine.
The term ‘shadow fleet’ is used by Western regimes to describe vessels they accuse of helping Russia circumvent sanctions, particularly the illegal price cap imposed on Russian oil.
The Criminal West
Moscow rejects the designation, saying it has no basis in international law and violates Russia’s right to conduct maritime trade.
Western governments have targeted hundreds of vessels with unilateral sanctions and have increasingly resorted to physically intercepting and detaining some of them.
Monkey See Monkey Do
Kyiv has also broadened its use of the ’shadow fleet’ label, applying it to various Russian commercial vessels targeted in Ukrainian drone strikes, including tankers and cargo ships. Let readers know what you think
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It is patently obvious that the western powers-that-be are trying to incite Russia into a full-fledged war with NATO type implications, so their crimes and graft don’t get exposed. This isn’t the first time they’ve done it, simply the latest iteration. I fully expect to see a carrier sunk in the med (by a mossad bomb) that will get blamed on Iran using Russian parts made from steel from North Korea forged in China. I think they’ve already started using the ‘axis’ powers label in a few places to float the idea.
The best hope is empowering the fed-up patriots in America to hang the politicians, but talk like that gets you on a watch-list, just like the KGB.
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On the tip of the pyramid governments around the world work together in Unisom. The latest example was the worldwide Covid scam. Those with a brain to think independently and eyes to see through the looking glass observed how government leaders in every country unleashed their draconian measures of tyranny against their own citizens with devastating results. Kneel and obey or being arrested, humiliated, attacked, fined or locked up. It doesn’t matter if you live under a communist, fascist, capitalist, socialist, monarchist regime. Your religious believe or affiliation doesn’t count neither. What it did was divide people ever more, inflicting horrendous trauma, fear, guilt, shame, humiliation and among the masses resignation from fighting back.
The never ending wars are fought between the 1% at the expense of everybody else. What we are witnessing is worse then piracy on a global scale. The damage and utter destruction of life, fauna and flora is staggering, as long as it feeds these despicable creatures and their Demiurge. The worst is yet to unfold, ’cause these snakes will use the unthinkable to take over our world. They will not succeed. They know what is coming our way, that’s why they’re so busy getting their underground DUMBs on Islands and remote regions around the world ready.
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Russians have the new ARENA system to protect armor which is better than cope cages.
Read about USMC having microwave mounted outside armor to fire pulse that stops incoming drones.
RF gets the most bang for buck out of military gear and has a proving ground in 404.
Cokehead rump ranger grifter Zelensky (every single time) attacked Iranian ships in the Caspian because it is task to start WWIII.
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Sauce for the goose, is sauce for the gander, as they say….thing is tho, why in the world is Russia(and Belarus) still selling enriched uranium, fertilizer and lumber to the US if theyre having their money frozen, sanctioned, etc. Maybe it;s just me, but either you;re at war, or you;re not, if not, then are you stupid or compromised and in on it like WWF wrestling back in the day? NATO has something up their sleeve, is it hubris and stupidity that they can break up Russia, perhaps some, but my money is on they want to use the battle to do what people did not agree to submit to during covid and the whole WEF era. you may not choose a carbon limit on your own, but if we bomb you into dust and all you can do is walk to places and forage for bugs and roots in the field, they you’re in line with it whether you wanted to or not. Sort of like back in the dark ages when one lord had too many rabblerousers around so would write to another lord to have a conflict so both of them could, to use a modern phrase “mow the lawn”.
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