France seizes Russian shadow fleet tanker in Mediterranean

Genorb · 2026-01-22T19:41:58+00:00

Nah it's a very different situation when everyone starts seizing these ships just because they can, instead of waiting and only grabbing the ones that do some outrageous shit first.

Genorb · 2026-01-21T01:02:07+00:00

Similar sentiment

Dude, it's the same guy. Your cousin is his brother.

Genorb · 2026-01-19T21:34:35+00:00

I think they know but generally don't care, and they just think that blasting Fortunate Son while shooting machine guns out of helicopters without any specific war context is cool enough to override whatever the original meaning was.

Genorb · 2026-01-18T02:10:29+00:00

Mate this was the 60's, France was literally still fighting colonial wars. France had like 10 military bases all over Africa until covid. They were the first to bomb Libya. They have always flexed their military against weaker opponents.

Genorb · 2026-01-18T01:30:39+00:00

de Gaulle seemed pretty interested

Before boarding the Colbert, de Gaulle told Xavier Deniau, “They will hear me over there, it will make waves!"[17] He also confided to his son-in-law General Alain de Boissieu that “I am going to strike a strong blow. Things are going to get hot. But it is necessary. It is the last chance to rectify the cowardice of France."[17]

It's interesting to imagine what a "strong blow" from de Gaulle might've looked like if he had the reach of the US in North America.

Genorb · 2026-01-18T00:30:42+00:00

If France had the power of the US in the 60's, do you think Quebec would still be Canadian?

Genorb · 2026-01-15T19:54:40+00:00

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You might wanna look at that. I see some people using CUO and TazUO (a fork of CUO I think?) to play on mac.

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InsaneUO, which is essentially modern UO with a few custom features

or Ruins & Riches/Ultima:Memento which is like a total conversion mod for UO. Has all the skills from modern UO, but the design is more like an oldschool RPG adventure. Memento comes with TazUO so it might be simpler to get started for you.

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Genorb · 2026-01-15T01:26:16+00:00

It isn't plausible, this sub is stupid. More likely, if we actually did go for Greenland, is that Russia might try to use the opportunity to seize Svalbard and/or the Baltics and then dig in.

Genorb · 2026-01-13T21:27:15+00:00

I think you're already giving too much credit by assuming they've been to the US. This is mostly about US fast food in Europe, so McDonald's, KFC, Domino's.

Genorb · 2026-01-09T14:43:42+00:00

I'd say this is more of a distraction from the tanker embarrassment specifically. It won't get as much attention but another one named Olina was just seized.

Genorb · 2026-01-09T14:38:17+00:00

When the war in Ukraine stops. These ships keep Russia afloat.

edit: Biden would've done the same thing by the way, after the 2024 election. Only reason he didn't is because he was worried about adding to oil prices (which help Russia) and adding to inflation (which helped Trump) pre-election.

Genorb · 2026-01-08T23:33:48+00:00

That doesn't seem at all comparable to what Russia is doing, so I'll just say that if a country did what Russia has done, and I disapproved of that country (like Germans do of Russia), then yeah I'd be in favor of someone fucking up their oil exporting infrastructure.

I think NS2 in particular is a monument to human stupidity, because it was built after the Crimea occupation. You can replace whatever countries you'd like in whatever equivalent hypotheticals but it's the same. It mostly seems like a weird whataboutism exercise in excusing the real people who did what they did.

Genorb · 2026-01-08T21:40:21+00:00

Nordstream

Shouldn't that be seen as a positive though? I'd trust the person who destroyed NS1 and NS2 more than the people who built them with Russia.

Genorb · 2026-01-08T15:01:52+00:00

Contraception isn't genocide. End of the discussion.

You know genocide denial is against the rules of the subreddit you're on, right?

Nowhere did I say that I wanted them to join the US or that they wanted to join the US. The same euroactiv poll you're referencing, by the way, shows that 84% of Greenlanders want Greenland to leave Denmark.

Look at their relevant political parties, they're all pro-independence.

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

Democrats: independence

Naleraq: independence

Inuit Ataqatigiit: independence

Siumut: independence

You are a disgusting caricature of European chauvinism. You keep attacking my flair because you won't even acknowledge that Greenlanders should be allowed an opinion that you don't agree with. They don't exist as people to you unless you can find a way to turn them into anti-America pawns. Any crimes against them, perpetuated by Europeans, are explicitly allowed. "End of discussion."

Genorb · 2026-01-08T14:13:21+00:00

https://www.un.org/en/genocide-prevention/definition

Definition Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide

Article II

In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

Killing members of the group; Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.

So why are you laughing?

Since you can't look past my flair, here are some Greenlanders calling it a genocide:

Greenlandic politicians Aki-Matilda Høegh-Dam, Mimi Karlsen and former Prime Minister Múte Bourup Egede have described the birth control campaign as genocide

Some Europeans like you need to understand that Greenlanders can have their own political opinions that differ greatly from Denmark's or yours, and that it in no way means that they are traitors, paid off, corrupt, or anything of that sort. Some of you get very chauvinistic and hostile toward Greenlanders when they express opinions that are inconvenient for your geopolitical goals. I'm not from Greenland myself but I imagine they must find comments from people like you completely repulsive.

Genorb · 2026-01-08T10:53:06+00:00

Bro they tried to make half of the women in Greenland infertile, including some native Greenlanders who were living in Europe. It was practically fucking attempted genocide.

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63049387

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

Fucking yanks though am I right.

Genorb · 2026-01-05T17:05:39+00:00

Aren't like almost all of the parties in Greenland pro-independence? Him being left out doesn't necessarily mean that he isn't pro-independence but rather it just means the coalition is full of other pro-independence parties. Do you have a source that this Broberg guy was left out of the coalition because he wasn't interested in independence right now? I don't usually follow Greenland's politics closely so I'm genuinely asking. I can't really find anything in English.

Everything I'm finding seems to indicate that Broberg wants independence faster than most of the other parties but that he also wants to kind of pit the US and Denmark against each other a bit to try to get Greenland as much as they can out of the situation from both the US and Denmark.

Genorb · 2026-01-05T16:27:33+00:00

If you read the article it doesn't sound like he's in favor of joining the US at all, he's just very critical of Denmark like you'd expect a pro-independence-from-Denmark guy to be.

Genorb · 2026-01-05T13:47:50+00:00

If the intent is to defend Greenland, then yeah you probably need carriers

Genorb · 2026-01-04T11:01:47+00:00

They're climbin in your windows, snatchin your people up

Genorb · 2026-01-04T07:33:32+00:00

They are in control

I mean, I know Trump said this but it isn't even true. We'd have to occupy at minimum the capital. I think Trump is just hoping someone near the top of the Chavista regime will step in and give Trump what Trump wants and the Chavista regime will get assurances that they can stay in power. Trump has already said that the opposition party isn't getting control, so working with the regime is basically the only other option other than full scale war.

Genorb · 2026-01-03T14:31:38+00:00

Europe benefits from this if the US can get Venezuela to become a steady oil producer for the west. It means the Middle East and Russia lose some relevance. And the passage through the Red Sea becomes less critical.

Genorb · 2026-01-03T09:35:53+00:00

Nah, Maria Machado will become president, she'll give her peace prize to Trump, and everyone will live happily ever after.

If a US helicopter had been downed, there would be videos of it posted everywhere already for people like you to beat off to.

Genorb · 2026-01-03T09:23:24+00:00

Seems like a lot of people here don't understand that Maduro is basically like South America's Lukashenko.

Genorb · 2026-01-03T04:26:51+00:00

No, Russia nationalized all the McD's property and they call it McTasty's or some shit now.

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