Originally Posted by
DaveReidUK
Three million of them in fact - see post #1.
What a ridiculous, irrational irrelevance.
Its next cargo could easily have been ten Million .762 rounds or half a squadron of T72 tanks.
What a bizarre concept to conflate the 'rights' of a leaglly and reasonably impounded strategic asset with the humanitarian nature of its previous cargo!
If the Moskva had just returned to the Black Sea following a humanitarian visit to some volcano-struck island would it have made her sinking any the less necessary, or any the more deplorable?
"Yeah! I know Officer, boot's fulla coke innit? But I delivered meals on wheels in this car this afternoon so I ain't done nuffink wrong! Av-eye?"
Heavens above !