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If there is going to be a WWIII it's going to be started by TrumpRussia has sent a submarine to escort an Iranian-linked sanctioned oil tanker in the Atlantic - sparking fears of a confrontation with the US.
The vessel, once known as the Guyana-flagged, Iranian-linked sanctioned Bella 1 and now renamed the Russian-flagged Marinera, is said to be heading toward its apparent destination in northern Russia, a US official told the Wall Street Journal.
It was also tracked by the US, UK, France and Ireland from the air after it escaped US interception in December.
A US Navy P‑8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft was spotted tracking the vessel as it passed the south of Iceland, before returning to RAF Mildenhall.
But now, a submarine and multiple Russian Navy vessels are on their way to bring it back to Russia, the Wall Street Journal revealed.
Link
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/russia-sends-submarine-to-stop-donald-trump-seizing-runaway-tanker-as-major-atlantic-clash-looms/ar-AA1TIf5M?ocid=msedgntp&pc=HCTS&cvid=84fad209c0354a7e925355d90db78a2b&ei=15
Coldwater
(957 posts)
harumph
(3,115 posts)I've got some young men in my extended family who are affluent conservative crusaders. That said, I'm afraid if we keep going this way, we're all going to pay the price. But yeah, it's gets to the point where you just gotta say "Fuck it - live your dream assholes."
Lovie777
(21,789 posts)I don't think this RW government thought this thru.
malaise
(292,926 posts)That is all
Coldwater
(957 posts)
CanonRay
(15,955 posts)C_U_L8R
(48,896 posts)Do the Russians have something on that ship they dont want us to see?
Bay of Pigs, the Trump Edition? What could go wrong? Everything.
Coldwater
(957 posts)and like all cult Leaders when it's over it will end in fire
cloudbase
(6,161 posts)coming to a (war) theater near you.
superpatriotman
(6,807 posts)If we can never use them? -Krasnov probably
RoseTrellis
(113 posts)Multiple sites are reporting the Russian ship is now being boarded by the US.
Link to tweet
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Happy Hoosier
(9,404 posts)But I'd like to know how how a slow-ass oil tanker managed to evade the most powerful navy in the world in its own back lake.
Tommy Carcetti
(44,411 posts)...with the end result being the tanker being released, Maduro being sent to exile to Russia (as is the case with many a deposed leader), and a more openly "flexible" Trump when it comes to matters such as Ukraine.
I'm still not convinced that's not going to be the end result, given Fiona Hill's 2019 testimony.
Jacson6
(1,772 posts)EllieBC
(3,623 posts)the have on dear leader? That would make all of this go away FAST.