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Posted on 06/17/2026 12:22:24 PM PDT by MinorityRepublican
Warning shots fired by a Russian warship sailing across the Channel on Tuesday morning were “deeply concerning and reckless”, Keir Starmer said from the G7 summit on Wednesday as he warned that the UK was dealing with proxy attacks from Russia “every single day”.
The prime minister said the Ministry of Defence had assessed that the Russian vessel was drifting and fired the shots within a few hundred metres of a British pleasure yacht.
He said: “We’re living in a more volatile and dangerous world than we have at any time in our lifetimes … That is true, it’s not just an abstract description.”
The incident took place at 11.40am on Tuesday more than 20 miles south of the Isle of Wight and less than 40 miles north of Normandy, France, when the yacht, identified as the private vessel Bright Future, sailed close to the Admiral Grigorovich and ignored at least one warning.
British sources said initial indications were that Russian sailors fired more than one shot after the yacht had got close to the heavily armed frigate.
“Following attempts to contact a British vessel in the channel, the Grigorovich fired warning shots. These were not aimed at the vessel and were an attempt to prevent a possible collision,” the Ministry of Defence said.
Russia’s defence ministry said later the yacht was on a “dangerous course” and that several attempts were made to contact it. Signal rockets were fired, the Russians said, but the yacht continued to within 150 metres before a warning shot was fired.
Starmer told the BBC that the incident “shouldn’t have happened”, adding: “It is reckless, and the couple of the yacht must be terrified, and I think everybody will feel for them as I do.”
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They were probably there to take pictures of how pathetic and stupid The UK has become.
Reminds of Vincent Astor and his yacht spying on the Japanese before Pearl Harbor.
A full investigation has been launched, and is currently underway, with the highest degree of urgency.
Depending upon the results of these inquiries, a sternly worded letter may be required; this would be transmitted through diplomatic channels at the most senior level.
Starmer’s global crime syndicate hates Russia.
As much as they hate America.
Meanwhile, President Trump has stated he trusts Putin.
Ever wonder why the mainstream media opposes Putin?
The UK government has always been stupid.
Because they harbor the headquarters of the globalists.
The best thing to do, the most intelligent thing, is to pay close attention to what the globalists are doing.
The enemies of the globalists are America’s friend.
It’s incredible to me that this journalist somehow neglected to mention that Britain seized a Russian associated tanker an ouoke days ago..
Isn’t that horrible journalism?
Wouldn’t that fact and context be very interesting for the reader?
Journalists often aren’t in the habit of telling the whole story or the truth
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“the Russian vessel was drifting”
The Russians were probably collecting information electronically and the 36-foot pleasure yacht was probably messing with signal collection.
Putin could stomp his foot and Starmer would wet his pants. Starmer is a joke and a very bad joke at that.
Starmer could go to school in Iran. They apparently know how to control a channel.
The latest status of the Royal Navy subs.......
All five of the Royal Navy’s operational Astute-class hunter-killer boats docked simultaneously for maintenance, repairs, or upgrades.
Trump tries to flatter other leaders, its Trump's negotiation style, flatter first to try to get a deal done. For instance Trump on President Xi Jinping, whom he referred to as a "great leader" and "warm". Trump on North Korean leader "Chairman Kim has a great and beautiful vision for his country".
Do I believe it all? No
Other Trump statements on Putin:
Trump said of Putin: “I’ve known him a long time, always gotten along with him, but he’s sending rockets into cities and killing people, and I don’t like it at all. We’re in the middle of talking and he’s sending rockets into Kyiv and other cities. I don’t like it at all.” He also spoke about imposing additional sanctions on Russia.
Trump followed up this statement with a strongly worded Truth Social post, in which he said that Putin “has gone absolutely CRAZY! . . . I’ve always said that he wants ALL of Ukraine, not just a piece of it, and maybe that’s proving to be right, but if he does, it will lead to the downfall of Russia!”
"A lot of people are dying and it should end," Trump said in a July 8 Cabinet meeting. "And I don't know, we get a lot of bullsh-- thrown at us by Putin."
"Every conversation I have with him is a good conversation," the president told reporters of Putin during an Oval Office executive order signing event. "And then unfortunately, a bomb is loaded up into Kyiv or someplace, and then I get very angry about it."
Trump's full message to Putin in the midst of ongoing peace negotiations read: "I am not happy with the Russian strikes on KYIV. Not necessary, and very bad timing. Vladimir, STOP! 5000 soldiers a week are dying. Lets get the Peace Deal DONE!".
President Donald Trump said he was “very angry” and “pissed off” when Russian President Vladimir Putin criticized the credibility of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy’s leadership, adding that the comments were “not going in the right location.”
the UK should be given the same containment and regime-change operations the Soviet Union received in the Cold War.
Your post, suspiciously, contains excessive detail.
Weakness invites aggression and England under Starmer is very weak!
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