☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.ml to news@hexbear.netEnglish · 2 months agoIran to Allow Only Chinese & Russian Vessels Through Strait of Hormuz, Citing Beijing & Moscow's 'Support' in Ongoing Conflictwww.republicworld.comexternal-linkmessage-square13linkfedilinkarrow-up1133arrow-down10cross-posted to: worldnews@lemmygrad.mlworldnews@lemmy.ml
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minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up39·2 months agoTechnically, they never touched vessels registered in Russia, just ones under flags of other countries that ferry Russian oil.
minus-squaremiz [any, any]@hexbear.netlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up25·2 months agodidn’t that one vessel in north sea have a Russian flag when seized but reflagged after it left port? maybe that is the loophole or something
minus-square☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆@lemmygrad.mlOPlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up17·2 months agoNo, Russia didn’t recognize them switching it on the fly.
minus-squarecfgaussian@lemmygrad.mllinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up15·2 months agoTechnically they did that on their own without Russia’s approval. It’s still obviously a proxy piracy campaign against Russia, but there is a very thin layer of “plausible deniability”.
Technically, they never touched vessels registered in Russia, just ones under flags of other countries that ferry Russian oil.
didn’t that one vessel in north sea have a Russian flag when seized but reflagged after it left port? maybe that is the loophole or something
No, Russia didn’t recognize them switching it on the fly.
Technically they did that on their own without Russia’s approval.
It’s still obviously a proxy piracy campaign against Russia, but there is a very thin layer of “plausible deniability”.