Summary
Russia warned of retaliation if the EU seizes more of its “shadow fleet” oil tankers in the Baltic Sea, calling it an attack on Russian territory.
EU countries like Finland, Lithuania, Estonia, and Latvia are exploring legal ways to detain these vessels, which Russia allegedly uses to evade sanctions and fund its war in Ukraine.
Moscow threatened countermeasures, including boarding Western ships.
Ukraine welcomed the initiative, arguing that disrupting Russia’s oil exports would weaken its war finances. The debate follows Finland’s December seizure of a Russian-linked vessel.
I know they always rattle their fucking sabers and I know Putler isn’t here reading your comments and fuck their nuclear saber rattling, but like, idk if purposefully provoking a psychopath with nukes is the best rhetoric.
You remind me of Tweak in that SouthPark episode
Because I’m not yelling “bring it on” about nuclear holocaust when I live less than 4 hours away from Russia by car?
I’m in the Finnish reserves and will go and fuck em if they come but they’ve no resources really aside from them nukes and I’d rather we didn’t get into that sort of war.
Very tweaky, sure.
That’s the point of the episode… Everyone acts like Tweak is the crazy one because he is worried about the president provoking a nuclear response. It gets more and more targeted towards him and the other characters dismiss his concerns.
Ooh.
I just thought because he’s like a paranoid tweaker. I haven’t watched it since like ~2019 or something and even then not the most recent necessarily. Don’t remember that episode.
Good reference then, tips fedora