The distress in question? The front fell off.
https://video.nostr.build/0342628c1d99bd5e4646b5bbac9d0627a0a991dd9847b5f0cdde8706179001b1.mp4
Also, these weren't Russian cargo ships. They're Russian oil tankers built for river service that were used in the open ocean due to sanctions. Sinking them is a major success of sanctions; hopefully more will sink cutting off Russia's illegal oil exports. Luckily the oil slick is moving towards Russia too.
you sure are hateful. do you think this will impact those waging the war or something?
Of course it does. Russia is spending almost half of the government budget on war, something like 10% to 20% of GDP. A large % of that goes to buying weapons and parts from foreign countries (eg drones). Russia pays for that through exports, especially oil.
Wars at this scale are always a question of economics. Crush the economy, stop the war.
The crew of those ships and the ships themselves are valid military targets. In this case it was nature that ultimately sunk them. But it would have been equally valid to use a drone to kill the crew.
I'm guessing you're gay and you think this is cute? I can't tell if it's cute because I'm not gay, but it's really dumb
lol!
I'm very unsurprised that you have a Palestinian flag in your username...
Equally valid to use a drone to kill the crew?
Do you understand what "reprisals" are, and what would happen to Western economies if our governments shared your insanity?
Do you understand what DID happen to Western economies during WW1 and WW2? Russia and its allies are far more capable of commerce-raiding today than the Central Powers were during WW1.
"reprisals" 😂😂😂
Russia can't even operate their Navy in the
Black Sea.
Ukraine has an "international legion", you could sign up and "walk the walk", if you truly believed and weren't just striking a pose.
Iran, alone, could likely end the modern Western economy, lifestyle and democratic illusion with a determined, drone-heavy harrassment of our oil supply lines.
Russia is at least an order of magnitude more dangerous, and has local allies on every major ocean.
You have absolutely no idea how your food, fuel and plastic trinkets reach you, do you?
We are very vulnerable to commerce-raiding, and Russia is not. Thankfully Putin is a gullible old Boomer with a crush on the (vanished) 1990s West, and a dependency on China who don't want him to fire the first shot in commerce-raiding because China is as vulnerable as we are.
But if we fire the first shot...
This is one of the few accurate assessments of Putin's character that I've read. He has a bad tendency toward nostalgia and sentimentality. As a leader, he has accomplished some things in improving Russia's condition since the fall of the USSR. But he's generally overrated by his followers. He doesn't really have it in him to confront the Western leaders and his actions throughout his career have amounted to half-measures at best. The West has always been able to lead him. I don't think Xi has it in him to be a counter-balance to the West either, though I have less insight into his character.
You are wasting your time, he wants to believe & believe he shall.
He's a moron like the rest of the emotional twits.
And I'm too disinterested to figure out which group of numbnuts he belongs to, the dipshits who still want to fight the ussr & think it is still there or the butthurt dipshits who are always crying they did it wrong & made us all look bad crew...😴
you clearly have never been to war.
I respect your opinion, but I think your opinion is still terrible.
War is never a solution, no matter who starts.
"War is never a solution"
Russia started this war. Should Ukrainians just roll over and die?
I have also heard other opinions that say that the conflict was finally triggered by a three-letter agency on 18.02.2014 on the Maidan.
In the end, it doesn't matter, because as I have already written:
War is never a solution, no matter who starts.
In my opinion, it would be better to use Bitcoin mining for warfare.
Then you would only fight for the next block.
and no one have To die in stupid Wars.
leave land that becomes unsafe to live in
instinctively seek land that is safe to live in
be part of a bloodline that migrates to safe areas instead of one that waits to get wiped out
ask me more rocket science questions
Should Gazans leave?
If the point of this reply is to waste my time, here's me replying again.
If the point is actually to get an answer to your question, you will ask someone else or maybe a chat bot, because I don't feel like holding your hand through such a stupid question when it seems like you're just wasting my time.
If people should have time for your replies, you will reply to me next with the best answer you were able to get from friends or chat bots, demonstrating some chance of sincerity.
What do you make of 2014?
It's a general words. I'm sitting now in Kyiv in corridor in my flat listening explosions outside. I wonder how your position would change if you'd heard 900 kg missile exploded near you
You seem to have a blood thirstyness / fetish for violence that is consistently off putting for the rest of the community
I want to see the war end. Killing Russians achieves that.
I don't care how off putting this is for weirdo pseudonyms like yourself.
Peter is saying simple obvious things.
this is funny. what Peter says is that ukranians have the right to kill those who want to kill them. but somehow is it Peter who fetish for violence not russians who bombs cities daily. sorry guys, I feel that it is just too difficult for many to think clearly
After experiencing humor you may go through several other feelings on the way to understanding
The crew can never be a target, they are human lives.
Oil tankers should not be scrapped, but seized.
Destroying oil tankers is a waste of material and has a huge environmental impact.
“they are human lives”
Russian soldiers are humans. Killing them is a good thing. This is no different.
The crew of Russian oil tankers are making a significant contribution to the war. They are just as much a target as soldiers.
Do you think the people working in Russian weapons factories can't be killed either?
The vast majority of people who are targeted would rather be at home with their families than out there getting their hands dirty with blood.
It is important to go after those who give the orders, not just kill the cannon fodder, as most of them are innocent.
Civilization evolves by doing good after evil, not by responding to evil with more evil.
Those who kill out of hatred are no different from those who kill to gain more power.
That's a bunch of high-minded nonsense that will just get good people killed.
We didn't defeat Hitler by carefully sparing the lives of Germans. We defeated Hitler by killing literally millions of Germans in the most effective ways possible.
I disagree, there are good people on both sides.
Killing good people only leads to their children seeking revenge.
I don’t want my taxes to fund hatred between two nations.
You might say, “By that logic, the nazis would never have been defeated”. That’s true, but according to my moral values, I cannot accept my taxes funding the deaths of innocents and not oppose it.
There's a handful of good people in Russia. Case in point:
https://x.com/KyivPost/status/1868908207974105542
But obviously, comparing a nation of good people getting invaded by a nation of psychopaths invading them is absurd.
You might as well complain that police are "fueling hate" by arresting thieves. Which of course is a claim in western politics. By nutty psychopaths who are trying to equivocate good and evil.
You know nothing about WW2.
Firebombing Dresden, Hamburg et all added a year to the war, and cost an extra million allied casualties (mostly Soviet).
These and other open attacks on civillians also likely saved Hitler from Operation Valkyrie; via their effect on mid-ranking Wehrmacht officer's views on negotiating with the West.
Ukraine has a foreign legion you could join, if you really believed. You could kill some Russian civillians in Kursk, and find out for yourself what that does to enemy morale.
Third Russian oil tanker sunk in bad weather in three days. 😂😂😂
https://video.nostr.build/60a0daad0d27138352e5e9d1fd5615861119db3e84319f2862e155043c2c185b.mp4
I think it's funny that Russian tankers sank, but sanctions are disgusting and the most fiat anti-free trade thing in existence. Glad we have Bitcoin. There is no such thing as an illegal oil export. There is a buyer and a seller, period.
In order for you to understand who we are dealing with, I will give you one example. and there are many. in Ukraine, in the Kharkiv region, there is a village, Skovorodinovka. the population is about 500 people. It's a small village in the middle of nowhere. In the village there is a museum of the Ukrainian writer Hryhoriy Skovoroda. On May 6, 22, a Russian missile flew there and destroyed the museum.
You can check my words, it's not difficult, everything is online.
The museum of the Ukrainian writer! Is it a military target? What's the point of this? Maybe because of NATO Expansion?
Try to explain to yourself how crazy you have to be to spend an expensive missile to destroy a museum house in the countryside?
"Russia's illegal oil exports" did I somehow teleport to Bluesky or Reddit? Luckily there's already a perfect currency for people who want to control other people's business. Unfortunately, Bitcoin is eating its lunch.
