Royal Navy Allision!
What’s Going on With Shipping? Jan. 21, 2024
In this episode, Sal Mercogliano – maritime historian at Campbell University (@campbelledu) and former merchant mariner – discusses the allision between the @RoyalNavy HMS Chiddingfold and HMS Bangor in Manama, Bahrain on January 19, 2024.
What is Going on With Shipping?
Previously:
TEHRAN (Tasnim) – A collision occurred between two UK Royal Navy minesweeper vessels during docking in Bahrain, resulting in significant damage to one of the ships.
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Lindsey Graham is such a psychopath!
President Biden on Thursday met with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky and announced a new tranche of US military aid for Ukraine that includes more cluster bombs, which are notorious for killing and maiming civilians.
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For the first time in a decade, Ukraine has surpassed Syria as the country with the highest number of casualties from cluster bombs. That’s according to a report from the Cluster Munition Coalition weapons watchdog. Nathan Southern from the University of St. Andrews has more on this report.
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Timeline: Use of controversial cluster bombs in past conflicts
Al Jazeera falsely claims that Russia used cluster munitions in Crimea! Nowhere, in the linked report, does HRW mention Crimea!
President Biden may have crossed a new red line for the Democratic Party when he announced he would send banned cluster munitions to shore up Ukraine’s slow counter-offensive against Russian troops.
Stop Biden From Sending Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
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Rep. Gaetz Says He Will Co-Sponsor Amendment to Block Cluster Bombs to Ukraine
Gaetz said that the NDAA will be voted on this week in the House. “We have an opportunity with bipartisanship to stand against the war-mongering Bidens,” he said.
Here’s why supplying Ukraine with cluster munitions would be a terrible mistake
Democrats Denounce Biden’s Decision to Send Cluster Munitions to Ukraine
Ukrainian forces appear to have used rockets to scatter stacks of internationally banned, hand-size antipersonnel land mines over Russian-occupied areas in eastern Ukraine, according to evidence collected by Human Rights Watch.
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Russian sappers have begun another round of explosives clearance operations in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic.
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Flash : the Ukrainian Nazis have started to persecute civilians in Kherson
The man is a veteran of the Soviet Army!
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Ukraine won’t let journalists into Kherson amid fears of civilian shootings
Ukraine is not allowing journalists into the settlements that have come under Ukrainian control in Kherson in recent days. The Ukrainian journalist and blogger Anatoly Shary reports on shootings and fears that the media lockout serves to cover up war crimes.
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Earlier, Shariy reported that the Ukrainian army began repression against residents of the region immediately after its invasion. According to his information, 20 people suspected of “collaborating” with Russia were shot dead in the settlement of Snigirevka. On Friday morning he wrote:
“In Snigirevka, which had been quietly defended recently and had in fact quietly surrendered, 20 Russian collaborators were killed, according to the Russian military.
I’m skeptical about the number. I think there are a lot more.”
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“Everyone who worked with the Russians and couldn’t leave Kherson, and that’s thousands, if not tens of thousands, is finished.
Posted on May 29, 2022 by ELCOMUNISTA.NET from TELESUR
The Russian Ministry of Defense reported that this Saturday the first merchant ship arrived at the Ukrainian port of Mariupol since the beginning of the Russian military operation in the east of the country.
First Merchant ship arrives in Mariupol since the beginning of the conflict – Eng/Esp
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