Kevin Leecaster
@mbpaz @HistoPol
The EU has a navy, but not much of one I don't think.
The U.S. navy has been stretched thin because of our responsibilities in the Pacific and Middle East over the past few years.
I'm hoping that Europe does step forward to take more responsibility towards enforcing international rules and norms soon.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
Yes, but the UK does, if I remember correctly.
Trojan Duck
@GreenFire @HistoPol @mbpaz Cumulatively the EU has a pretty good sized fleet. Russia's surface fleet is big but pretty decrepit. Not so their sub fleet, however.
Kevin Leecaster
@todwest @HistoPol @mbpaz
From Europe, only Sweden and Italy made the top ten list for size of navies in 2020.
Top 10 Largest Navies in the World (by total number of warships and submarines - 2020):
Russia 781
China 730
North Korea 505
U.S. 472
Sweden 353
Indonesia 333
Italy 309
India 294
Thailand 293
Sri Lanka 270
Trojan Duck
@HistoPol @GreenFire @mbpaz And France, and Germany, and Italy, among others. And they are not half bad, despite their size.
Kevin Leecaster
@todwest @HistoPol @mbpaz
Yeah, one thing about just judging navies on number of warships that could also be misleading is the number of personnel.
I don't know why the shadow fleet has not been stopped from plying their trade in sanctioned oil, but I do not think that it is from a lack of will on the part of the USA. I expect that there are aspects of it that I am not familiar with not being a naval nor maritime legal expert.
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
#GeoPol #Russia #ShadowFleet #BigOil
(1/n)
Me neither. However, we're asking the right questions.
In my view, it was #BigOil 🛢 that was responsible for blowing up #Nordstream2. 3)
Why? Because they had the most to gain from it. They had long been pressuring successive US governments to make Germany stop the construction 🚧, 2) which failed, b/c of German industries' dependence on cheap #Russian oil 🛢. 1)
The million-dollar...
HistoPol (#HP) 🏴 🇺🇸 🏴
#GeoPol #Russia #ShadowFleet #BigOil
(2/n)
...question is:
why are they not clamering for the seizure etc. Of the #ShadowFleet ships? B/C of the oversupply of oil due to Russian sales, FF priced are lower than they could be...
#BigOil had been lying to Congress and the world about anthropogenic #GlobalWarming. 4)
They have neither shame nor conscience.
👉Why are they not seizing this opportunity.?👈
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