It is extremely obvious all these cable cutting “accidents” are done on purpose by Russia, Russian actors, or someone contracted by Russia. The ship should be seized and used for financing new cables, even if it the rusty bathtub is only worth a couple of bucks. Most importantly the crew (regardless of nationality) needs to be sentenced to something like 20-30 years in jail for acts of war or the like. Then future crews and shipping companies will realise the cost of accepting these contracts from Russia.
The crew should not be penalized for decisions they have no control over. That’s crazy.
I totally agree, but someone on the ship actually is responsible for following orders from whoever (Russia) to dump anchor and drag it along the seabed. I refuse to believe the captain did all of it himself, or held the crew at gunpoint to force them to do it. Most of the crew are surely innocent or, at worst, were actively ignoring the crime they collectively were doing. It is fully possible for the crew to ignore orders, they could possibly lose their jobs, but they decided their jobs were worth more than not propagating Nazi Russia’s stupid hybrid war.
Actions have consequences. Do stupid shit, win stupid prizes. And so on.
It is fully possible for the crew to ignore orders
You have no idea if that’s true. Russia is an authoritarian country. It didn’t get that way by allowing underlings to assert themselves. Even in your example of losing their jobs-that could be suicidal if they have a family relying on that income. In Russia, the punishment could be much worse. In an authoritarian oligarchy like Russia, all of the levers of power are controlled by the handful of elites. The entire national system is built for their benefit. Your average grunt is a victim in all this. They don’t have the ability to dissent. They’ll get made an example.
Or the sailors might have been gung-ho and did it without their captain knowing. Hell, idk.
According to MarineTraffic, which tracks ship movements, the Fitburg departed the Russian port of St. Petersburg on Tuesday and was headed to Haifa in Israel.
Not shocked by the origin or the destination.
They should start russianproofing those cables like I catproof mine
