The Russian cargo ship the Alaed has left Russian waters again on an attempt to deliver refurbished Syrian helicopters back to the Syrian military. The last shipping attempt failed after British officials, under US pressure, forced the revocation of their insurance.
The Alaed had been a Curucao-flagged ship, and British officials made a big deal of having given serious consideration to launching a naval attack on the ship and capturing it to prevent the return of the helicopters. It was at this point the insurance was pulled and the ship slunk back to Murmansk.
This time, things are different. The ship has been reflagged as a Russian ship and while still traveling as a private vessel it is trailing not far behind a flotilla of Russian naval ships headed to the same area on a “training” operation.
Being a Russian-flagged ship removes the insurance obstacle, and the close proximity of the flotilla presumably will prevent Britain from giving serious consideration to attacking it when it gets close to British waters.
What a laugh! English cowards attacking a Russian merchant vessel with Syrian overhauled copters?
Please. That was mere face saving words for domestic and israeli consumption. I wont even think of what the Russian response would have been to that.
Anyway the obstacle is removed and the vessels is guarded by 11 warships. Earlier this year when Aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov en route to Syria passed trough the Scottish straits the only thing they did was whining about the Russians throwing kitchen-waste into the ocean, perfectly legal but if they want to give an impression of wanting to start WW3 they should find a less laughable reason…
"The ship slunk back to Murmansk" – wow. Is Jason Ditz training for the MSM?
Nothing wrong with a figure of speech, is there?
Britain doesn't have the balls to attack a Russian ship.
GO RUSSIA !!!
The LAST remaining CHAMPION of FREEDOM and CHOICE.
I don't see the Russians threatening to block the millions of dollars of American and British Arms flowing into the Syrian terrorists (oops) freedom fighters
What democracy you talking about. How about murdering 330.00 Chechen in two wars. Is that what you call democracy. What about Putin with his FSB bombing his own people's apartment building to win the election and start another brutal war which wiped out Grozney from the face of the earth. Pls don't be dumbass and educate yourself. Russia, Israel, US & Iran are all in it together to wipe out the Sunni population in Syria. You are another sheeple who believed 911 was the work of Muslims then when truth came out you didn't act like the Ostrich do. Time will tell.
The Putin "bombing his own people" in 1999 is nothing but spurious paranoia (Putin has remained VERY popular in Russia since 2000 – show me a SINGLE poll which states otherwise). It's the Russian eqivalent of the 9-11 "truth" rubbish in the US – but then again, you believe that as well. George Bush did 9-11 and FSB agent Putin did the "apartment building." It all makes perfect sense!
> Russia, Israel, US & Iran are all in it together to wipe out the Sunni population in Syria.
Go easy on that hookah man.
Still, calling Russia a "champion is of freedom and choice" is pretty much off the chart in delusional confusion.
Me thinks that the ONLY dumbass around beeboltwu is YOU.
Why don't you open ypur eyes to whats happening around you and see that we are all being set up for the start of ANOTHER WAR .
I am sure you meant yourself with dumbass because I got used to living all around the world not brain washed by the MSM like yourself. I am sure it's a waste of time trying to explain to deaf ears like I tried back in 2001 after 911 or before the invasion of Iraq. Some people call me Hokkah man. What a retarded person you are. Again I say it's a waste of time reading your blogs. I am real white pure European but not stupid to believe there's a democracy in Russia. Here you dumbasses be courageous and go to Russia and see who rule Russia or your empire. The same Zionist and Putin is one half bred Jew murderer. By the way. What was the foreign ministers of Iran doing in Jordan meeting with the lizard face Israeli FM Avigdor Leiberman back in 2009 hosted by king Abdullah II. Afterall, are'nt they enemies?
This is my last word to you.
It takes one dumbass to know another one.
Stop wasting my time
" I am real white pure European…Putin is one half bred Jew murderer." Adolph Hitler is that you?
"I am real white pure European…" So? What's your point? You say that it's a waste of time reading these blogs, but you do it anyway. As to what was the foreign ministers(sic) of Iran doing in Jordan, there is something known as diplomacy. Didn't Nixon go to China? Or Sadat to Israel? This is the way conflicts are solved: negotiating.
beeboltwu,
No need to get all keyed up on a friendly forum here.
About Syria, if you delete the words “Russia”, “Iran”, and “Sunni population” from that sentence, then you might have something closer to reality.
If those are Mi-24 "Hind" choppers the Syrians are getting, they can turn an Israeli Merkava or US M1 Abrams tank into instant scrap iron.
watch birdie! It's not the merchant ship that's interesting. three old choppers are nothing…
4 fleet carriers?… this is not a drill.
this is guns of august
The pieces are falling into place before some action begins.
It's not slunk, it's slank: as in "the ship slunk at slank speed"…or wait. This language is a linking slip.
Slunk is correct. It’s the pt and pp of slink. Slank is not a word.
Signed: your friendly English teacher.
The old Brutish lion is bluffing and wouldn’t dare to do anything. As one old adage has it: When the lion gets old, even a mouse can screw him.