HMS Diamond, currently patrolling the Red Sea
Nick Mordowanec – Newsweek Jan 2, 2024
Russia is being encouraged by some of its own to target the British military for helping Ukraine carry out a successful attack in the Black Sea last week.
Dozens of Russian service members were declared missing or wounded after the 370-foot Ropucha-class Novocherkassk large landing ship was hit on December 26 in Crimea by Ukrainian cruise missiles. Moscow admitted damage to the ship, which carried a crew of up to 87 service members.
The missiles used by Ukraine were reportedly provided by the U.K. Ministry of Defense, which also aided Kyiv with satellite reconnaissance and target guidance. It has led to some, including Russian political scientist Yuri Baranchik, to encourage Moscow to attack the British warship HMS Diamond.
“This is a blow from Britain/the United States and a desire to interrupt the positive background from the capture of Marinka, as well as the recent successes of the Russian Armed Forces at the front,” Barinchik wrote on Telegram, describing the attack as a “training exercise” for a potential future strike on Russia’s naval components in the Northern Fleet.
“This latest destruction of Putin’s navy demonstrates that those who believe there’s a stalemate in the Ukraine war are wrong,” U.K. Defense Secretary Grant Shapps said following the attack, according to Sky News. “They haven’t noticed that over the past four months, 20 percent of Russia’s Black Sea Fleet has been destroyed.”
A spokesperson for the British Royal Navy declined to comment to Newsweek, which also reached out to the Russian Defense Ministry.
Retired U.S. Marine Corps Colonel Mark Cancian told Newsweek via email that Baranchik’s remarks are indicative of routine Russian behavior, where Russian President Vladimir Putin won’t make direct threats but will have surrogates do his bidding.
“Clearly, the pressure that Ukraine is exerting on Crimea is hurting Russia,” Cancian said. “The logic here is indirect: The U.K. supplied Storm Shadow missiles to Ukraine, which Ukraine used to attack the ship in Crimea. Russia cannot attack U.K. forces in Europe without risking a conflict with NATO. However, it could have surrogates attack UK forces elsewhere.”
Barinchik desires a response through the Iran-aligned Houthis, to sink the British ship that is currently participating in the 12-nation “Guardian of Prosperity” operation led by the U.S.
The operation was launched in response to a series of Houthi-led drone, missile and naval attacks against commercial shipping in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemeni. Since 2014, the Houthis have been at war with the Western-recognized Yemeni government, and since 2015 with a regional Western-leaning coalition led by Saudi Arabia.
U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin called the Red Sea a “critical” waterway that will be defended. Arab countries like Egypt have hesitated to partake in the operation, while countries like the Netherlands and Norway have offered personnel but no ships.
Gas prices have increased due to escalating anti-Western tensions emanating from the ongoing war between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas in Gaza.
“We can provide the Houthis with appropriate anti-ship missiles, while the West supplies Kyiv with relevant specialists who are not formally in military service in the Russian Armed Forces,” Baranchik said. “In principle, we can raise the stakes beyond the limits with mandatory preliminary information support.
“First, a message from a Russian official blamed Britain for the sinking of the Novocherkassk large landing ship. Then, take into the air two MiG-31K [missiles], preferably a MiG-31I, or two Tu-22M2/TU-22M2M—you need to look at the flight range of the carriers—and hit the British destroyer Diamond with two ‘daggers.’
“Do it yourself. And officially declare that Russia’s patience with the antics of the West is over. London will run to complain to the USA.”
Cancian said present threats regarding naval vessels in the Red Sea are merely “symbolic” due to it requiring weeks or even months for missiles to be sent from Russia to Yemen.
“The shipment would probably need to go through the Iranians, who have an existing logistics pipeline to the Houthis,” he said.
How can my dad attack the Pomgolians from the Pirate Rocks and the rest of the “west” when all of his relatives, his hooked nosed bosses and oligarch friends that pay his salary live there?
Lets GO Vlad! It’s about TIME!!! 👍
Putin is under enormous pressure to attack the UK in some way.
This idea that Russia can’t do this attack directly, is bollox!
If Russia hit a UK carrier, at sea, or in Portsmouth Harbour, no one will come to bankrupt Nazi UKs aid.
Half of NATO would not risk their lands to nuclear annihilation for a Nazi terrorist state. The Nazi US won’t lift a finger to help the UK.
After HMS rust bucket is resting on the sea floor, it might (lol) knock some sense into the Nazi sect, because it’s not just Russia. It’s China, North Korea, with advanced Russian nukes, Iran, Pakistan and others who will join in with the fireworks display.
Just as we’ve seen the IDF running away, and the US navy made a laughing stock, because they are nowhere near as powerful as they thought, it will be the same after Russia sinks a UK carrier.
No one will lift a finger. I say a carrier, but it could be Windsor Castle, No10, Westminster Abbey, but it doesn’t matter, the Russians would hit a prime military target.
Putin might look secure, but a midnight coup, and a strike on the UK, and it doesn’t matter what anyone thinks the following morning. The French will not support NATO action on Russia. The US will not let Nazi UK use Trident, and even if it did, they would be taken out by Russian defenses.
Alistair Crooke was on Judging Freedom. He made the point about the UKs dreadful economy and the decline of the West. He was asked if the likes of Sunak and Biden were aware of this decline, and Crooke said ‘no, they are in it, part off it’. This is not my view. I believe they know, but are in public face denial.
I wonder, are they completely ignorant about a Ruusian attack on the UK, or is this public school boy invincibility?
School boys playing toy soldiers in the dirt/sand, they never lose, and could it be that the school boy collective is just carried away by the euphoria of history, and their death is just as natural as the new winners joy.
Better scarper, those trolls and bots are coming. lol
https://www.youtube.com/live/od5lipBQhe0?si=eMbooGe3gno5O5CH
The Rothschilds and the other satanic globalist bankers are supporting (as always) both sides of the planned WW3. The ‘victors’ will have to pay the war debts of the losing side. The planned result of the war kaos is a global digital slavery order with a one world government, biometric digital ID, vaccine passports and CBDCs. This is their plan to handle their imploding present fiat control system.
The only way to ‘win’; is to refuse to play (fight WW3).
If we refuse to fight in their third world war, the planned great reset will instead become the great awakening with the establishment of a sound money that is not amenable to counterfeiting by the present corrupt powers that be.
If we refuse to fight WW3, truth and freedom will be victorious.
Russia is sitting back and letting the Anal Empire destroy itself. Escobar who has links with Russia said recently that they are not going to wrap up Ukraine till 2025, death by a thousand cuts for the West. Alistair Crooke summed it up perfectly on Judging Freedom regarding the predicament of the Western world.
Both US & England’s arsenals are nearing empty, another year of propping up that Coke head Zeli & we won’t have enough munitions to defend ourselves.
@ANOUGHTY MOUSER
TPTB dont need us drafted . this is a war against
civilians since they are expendable as useless eaters
for TPTB (they are in reality useless eaters) . israel
is just doing what TPTB want have done with the
whole humanity . therefore a (limited) nuke war is
just fine for them . they dont need you or anybody
of us .
The Authoritative voice of TTS CJ gets to conjecture and spout unsubstantiated invective us usual..
Carl `Fuck All` Jones..
@Paul James
Deagel – who sees both US & UK being obliterated by 2025 – would agree with your assessment.
It’s not going to last a year. The Jews are controlling the narrative, and will continue to do so until the day Yahwey comes callin.
Ukraine is on stalemate hold, till Gaza is emptied completely, and the oil wells and gas wells are pumping the wealth, the skids of gold the US Jews have promised Netanyahu arrives.
Sorry, it’s ALL going to be cancelled, with prejudice…
Yes a good interview of Alistair Crooke by the icecream salesman..(aka Herman Munster`s lovechild..)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=od5lipBQhe0
no due diligence at any political level…UK completely JewK now
UKColumn highlights the subversion of all our institutions by these untermensch