I’ve boarded hundreds of foreign flagged vessels who were suspected of embargo violations. I’ve boarded Panamanian, German, UK, Spanish and a multitude of other flagged vessels. What makes Russia different from any other country who tries to skirt the law? I’ll give you the location of the boarding is different, but everything else is the same.
Free Republic is infested with russians and russian assets. They reveal themselves by their own rhetoric.
Not an expert but I was working off shore in the North Sea and read a book rapidly one time on who can board whom.
Some EU country demanded to board our drilling rig (which was in this weird area that was either international or Norway waters, depending on what treaty you believed in).
We really didn’t want to them on board or even close to us, because it was a direct violation of safety policy to have anyone else there and a good way to get killed when we were tripping pipe, which is exactly what we were doing.
Anyway, according to the book I hastily read most countries have a treaty with the USA and each other saying we can board their boats and vice versa or we routinely grant permission to do so and vice versa. It’s super not clear if this applies to something that doesn’t move like a drilling platform, but we decided we were obligated to let them on.
But we had called the British Navy (British rig) due to confusion and they chased the other people off.
Still no clue what they wanted.
Yeah, that pesky detail makes "everything else that's the same" not the same at all.