Russia sends navy ships to guard oil tanker being pursued by US forces

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c7v0deypjl4o

40 Comments

  1. EmekaEgbukaPukaNacua on

    It’ll be interesting to see if he cheesy Gordita crunches out or actually seizes this vessel.

  2. IncidentalIncidence on

    So this ship came from Iran and never actually made it into the Caribbean before turning around, but for some reason Washington cared enough to have the Coast Guard chase it across the Atlantic (but without inderdicting it). Now the ship has re-flagged underway to Russian, the 160th SOAR are staging in the UK and Russia is sending submarines to guard a supposedly empty ship?

    What do we think it’s carrying? Because it clearly isn’t actually empty.

  3. JustWordsSnowflake on

    Sending in massive firepower for an empty renamed Russian ship doing 8 knots…..

  4. Mr31edudtibboh on

    Russia “accidentally” firing on a US Navy ship is actually a good thing here, might keep Trump from invading Europe that way

  5. So you’re saying the strongest world power is unable to catch a tanker? Lol, fake news

  6. Honestly this is going to be a sick mission in whichever FPS come out on rope in the future!

  7. There’s something mighty important on that ship. Maybe some type of nuclear material or some weapons of some kind.

  8. Necessary-Ad-1353 on

    So this is an actual Russian oil carrier that is going against sanctions?right now you could sink it claiming Ukraine drones struck it!haha

  9. Just call the Ukrainians with coordinates and the Russian tanker can play tag with naval drones.

  10. OkResponsibility2470 on

    Uhh so why are they chasing it? Smallest navy ships are at least 3x faster than a tanker. If they wanted to capture it, they would have

  11. Tourist_Careless on

    Well the crew is doomed then. Nothing guaruntees an L like the Russian navy protecting you.

  12. Fine_Carpenter9774 on

    It’s not the tanker but the message that Russia wants to send. If the US attacks this tanker, Russia will attack the US boats and go all out.

    I think Putin wants to send a message to Trump that while you can get away with some things, for others there will be repercussions.

  13. Quick Ukraine! Russia apparently still has a couple of ships that haven’t been promoted to submarines yet! Do your magic!