Royal Navy shadows Russian warships after 'unusually high levels of activity' in Channel and North Sea

Sky News ^ | March 26 2020 | Lucia Binding

[knighthawk]

It comes as the Royal Navy has been preparing to help the NHS and other government departments deal with the coronavirus outbreak.

Nine Royal Navy vessels have shadowed seven Russian warships after detecting "unusually high levels of activity" in the Channel and North Sea.

It comes as the Royal Navy has been preparing to help the NHS and other government departments deal with the coronavirus crisis.

[nuconvert]

Putin isn’t wasting this opportunity to harass the west...tanking the price of oil and internet hack attacks & cyber threats. He’s proving he’s not part of the solution but an added hinderance. He’s having a good time.

[2banana]

The British Navy still has ships?

Who knew?

[DesertRhino]

9 Brit surface ships? That’s half their tiny navy.

[2banana]

It is international waters. Just like the Straights of Taiwan.

[McGruff]

I’d be more worried if they were Chinese ships.

[nuconvert]

“It is international waters”

SO, therefore the Brits shouldn’t pay any attention to them?
They were sent there to intimidate & harass during a time when most of the world is trying to cope with a pandemic.

[2banana]

I have yet to read or see any evidence of “intimidate & harass” - unless your definition is just even using international waters...

[nuconvert]

What part of ‘unusually high levels of activity’ didn’t you get?
The Russians are doing it intentionally.

[mac_truck]

Putin isn’t wasting this opportunity to harass the west...tanking the price of oil and internet hack attacks & cyber threats.

It was the Saudis/OPEC who increased their oil production levels not the Russians...but ok.

[mac_truck]

I have yet to read or see any evidence of “intimidate & harass” - unless your definition is just even using international waters...

British tabloid hyperbole is fodder for soft western minds.

[nuconvert]

Good try, but wrong

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_Russia%E2%80%93Saudi_Arabia_oil_price_war

[bgill]

Wait, lemme guess, Russian headlines are today reading, “Royal Navy Stalking Russian Ships”. It’s all in a say’s work. Same thing every day.

[nuconvert]

” fodder for soft western minds. “

Spoken like a true, loyal Punintista

[DesertRhino]

Silliness. Is it a provocation every time the Brits leave port? Authoritarian governments need an external threat to point to. It’s a well known concept. Trying to show how relevant they are.

[nuconvert]

“Is it a provocation every time the Brits leave port? “

Again, which part of ‘unusually high levels of activity’ didn’t you get?

“Authoritarian governments need an external threat to point to. It’s a well known concept. Trying to show how relevant they are.”

And the rest of the world is fighting & trying to cope with a pandemic. Never let a good disaster go to waste - a Putin moto, no doubt. Intimidate your enemy when its down

[2banana]

What does that even mean?????

“unusually high levels of activity”

[nuconvert]

You’ll have to ask the military branch of the British gov’t

[mac_truck]

Lol...according to your own dopey source, Saudi oil production is going to increase by 2.5 million barrels, while Russia is holding steady.

[nuconvert]

That was the just easiest source. It’s been all over the news, primarily business/financial sources.

You need to keep up if you want to stay in step with your hero, Putin.