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Sunday’s successful blockade run could signal to international shippers that it’s reasonably safe to resume operations from Ukrainian ports.

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[-] maporita@unilem.org 23 points 1 year ago

The best answer to Russia's blockade would be a NATO escort. Unfortunately Turkey would need to be on board and Erdogan is trying to play the role of mediator in the conflict.

[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

I actually don't blame him for trying to play mediator, I think that's a good thing here, because I want putin to think there's always room to talk even while his army is being incinerated around him.

But we should send speedboats with the US flag carrying kfc in and out of Odessa with each convoy.

Ukraine is beating Russia, best case scenario for everyone is this keeps happening slowly enough that putin doesn't do anything stupid while his empire collapses around him.

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What a worthless blockade, the whole point of a blockade is to prevent ships from entering or leaving. I wonder if the Russian Black Sea fleet is even still operational.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago

As the article says, it appears to have been a bluff and the west called them on it.

[-] PersnickityPenguin@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

The whole invasion has been a bluff! Putin keeps threatening to nuke to West and NATO if we supplied Ukraine with assistance. Over and over and over. Well look how that went.

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Good point!

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[-] InvertedParallax@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

You take that back!

The Russian black fleet is the strongest submarine fleet on the planet, they launched their newest vessel, The Moskva, just last year!

As the saying goes: "In the Russian Black Fleet, every ship is a potential submarine!"

Russian submarine technology is sp advanced they're preparing to convert the entire Kurch bridge into a submarine! Western technology cannot match!

[-] kingthrillgore@kbin.social 10 points 1 year ago

Third strongest naval fleet beneath the Black Sea

[-] Ooops@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Operational? Sure. But not actually operating in the Black Sea region they are supposedly blockading.
Russia has long pulled many of their ships back to more secure locations to keep them from being targeted. It's basically typical Russian posturing. They can pretend to block grain ships in the Black Sea all they want but to actually do it they would need to have control there.
The only thing they could actually do is shooting missiles mostly blindly at everything that moves...

[-] MeetInPotatoes@lemmy.ml 9 points 1 year ago

I'll bet anyone 5 dollars and a pack of smokes that there's some "Hunt for Red October" shit going on under the water.

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