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So if someone sails a loaded warship within the line of sight of a foreign nation military base without their OK... They should just be cool? Asking for a friend.

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how do you know that they are not having difficulties? Catastrophic engine and steering failure?

You should fail them on the open radio channel, maybe via airhorns/flags/Morse etc. Warning shots after that?

All that said, it seems that russians did all of that and its nothing but brits flexing and doing political dance

> Russia claims the illegally-annexed peninsula and its waters are its territory, but Britain says its ship was passing through Ukrainian waters.

They even put a journalist on the deck

In line of sight to whose military base? This ship was operating in Ukrainian waters off Ukrainian territory.

Sevastopol Naval Base is Russian since 1783 if I understand correctly.

In Ukraine.

I don't want to play tit-for-tat but it's "in Ukraine" just like Guantanamo Bay is "in Cuba". So it's complicated and not explained with a naive "I just wanted to sail my warship through, gee why do u bully ME?"

To be fair, Guantanamo is indeed on the island of Cuba.

Crimea de facto belongs to Russia now and that isn't going to change to no matter how many warships cruise past it.

Realistically it's difficult to imagine any scenario where Crimea ends up belonging to Ukraine again.

Now that Biden has waived the sanctions against the Nordstream 2 project, Ukraine will lose it's strategic importance as a gas transit country. At the same time Russia's importance as an energy supplier to Europe will increase. It won't be much longer before no one cares about Ukraine or Crimea anymore.

No. Crimea does not belong to Russia. That’s nonsense.

Yes, Crimea does indeed de facto belong to Russia, although de jure it is recognised by most countries as belonging to Ukraine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_facto

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_jure

I’ll leave the semantic arguments to the Latin majors. Russia may see some legitimacy to its claim to Crimean territory, but it’s a self-asserted claim and it should be treated with as much respect as any other self-asserted claim.

Again, I assert that I am mayor of Moscow.

I’m not talking about semantics nor about the international legality of it.

The difference between your assertion and this situation Is that in addition to asserting that Crimea is now a part of Russia they also control and govern it. I don’t think there is a lot anyone can do about that.

I don’t think that’s a contentious claim to make, it’s simply just the reality of it.

What will be more interesting will be to see how far Western/NATO countries will go to change that reality and how far Russia will go to prevent that.

It is called "occupied". Yet Crimea belongs to Ukraine.

Crimea occupied by Russian Federation. Sevastopol naval base due date is 28 May 2017.

I mean, yes. You don't get to claim territory around your military bases in foreign countries, that's just not how that works. If country A doesn't like country B sailing near their military bases in country C, they need to ask country C to stop it...

Since Country C is Ukraine... good luck?

The Russians sailed [0] past the white cliffs of Dover not too long ago. It did suffer severe mechanical faults however...

[0] https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/navy-ships/a361788...

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