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Major events in the Ukraine proxy war, 2026 (view source)
Revision as of 05:36, February 15, 2026
, February 15→War at sea
==War at sea==
==War at sea==
[[John Helmer]] reported:
{{Cquote|As [[Lavrov]] pointed out, as clear as day, while the [[American]]s have been [[negotiating]] a [[tactic]]al withdrawal from the [[Ukrainian]] battlefield because they are losing and want to conserve their forces from total capitulation and destruction, the Americans have been [[escalating]] at sea. So, they’re attacking every single major sea route. They seized the [[Russia]]n flag vessel the ''Marinara'' was reflagged as it sailed off the coast of [[Scotland]] near [[Iceland]]. They are expanding in the [[Baltic]] through [[Estonia]], [[Poland]], and [[Germany]]. They’ve expanded in the south in the central [[Atlantic]] off the coast of [[France]]. They’ve expanded aggressively in the Danish straits through [[Denmark]]. We’ve talked about all of these incidents. Attacks off the coast of [[Crete]] in the [[Mediterranean]]. Vessels, Russian vessels have been sunk. So-called [[sabotage]] off the coast of [[Algeria]] at the end of 2024. And I’m not even including the war at sea in the [[Black Sea]].
So what we have, including the most recent seizure of vessels, is what Lavrov called [[piracy]]. Now piracy happens when vessels are not Russian flagged … not all working for Russia, only about 15% of them, are Russian flagged, but the speed at which Russian flagging has occurred is now accelerating. The question then becomes—and it’s a fraught question, a controversial question in [[Moscow]] right now—What can the Russian Navy, what can the Russian air force, what will the [[commander-in-chief]] agree to do, to defend this fleet from [[US]] attack? And you can very well understand when Lavrov says this level of attack on our vessels, on our trade, whether it’s flagged or not, it’s still Russian [[trade]], is an [[escalation]] that violates—no matter what understanding was reached in [[Anchorage]].
So now they’re having an argument. And in December, Admiral Alexander Moiseyev, the Russian naval commander, published a piece in a military magazine, ''Military Thought'' it’s called in English, arguing that you must have Russian naval protection to keep the trade routes open. Now, that’s easier said for the [[Arctic]] route because there’s a Russian shore, there are Russian bases. It’s not so easy to project Russian naval power far off Russian shores where the US has bases. And we’ve just seen a major interception and seizure of a vessel, not a Russian flagged vessel, in the [[Indian Ocean]]. The Americans, for the time, have been keeping it secret. It appears to have been in the western Indian Ocean and it takes a lot of effort for the [[US Navy]] and its shore bases—[[Singapore]], [[Diego Garcia]], and elsewhere—to mount these operations. However, it’s clear it’s a [[war]] against Russia at sea, it’s clear it’s got an [[economic]] target, and it’s clear that [[Dmitriev]] and that faction in Moscow have nothing to add to the defense and they don’t want their business-as-usual doctrine to be undermined if there’s a clash between Russian naval support for Russian flagged vessels.}}
==References==
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