Russian Navy

When you look at what Ukraine has been able to do using small sea drones, they've been able to cripple Russia's Black Sea fleet at a fraction of the cost.

I mean, look, I don't want to hold up the Russian Navy as the world's best Navy.

They're not, okay? They have maintenance problems on the ships.

They have leadership problems.

So I have several questions about this, which I'm sure will be answered, but I'm

looking at the Russian Navy wiki, so I can't be bothered.

So do they, like, this has got to involve, like, not just, like, you know, okay, we're just going to send it out to sea.

This has got to involve, like, retrofitting for, like, navigation, stuff like that, like, ageist systems.

So we're fucked is what I'm hearing.

How did we win the Cold War? We didn't.

Because the Russian Navy is worse than this somehow.

Jesus Christ.

What's different, according to Mr. Trump, is that the U.S. will have the right to veto plans by its adversaries to build a military presence or undertake sensitive investments on the island.

With China's interest in investing in critical minerals projects, as well as the Russian Navy's use of Arctic waterways, this could protect Western Europe's interests too.

The timing of this agreement is significant for the transatlantic alliance, even in its current frayed state.

Mr. Trump's announcement came on the same day that Congress passed a Russia sanctions bill, which boosts Europe's efforts to help Ukraine fend off aggression from Moscow.

What anomaly? Dmitry poured whiskey into a cracked mug, eyes fixed on the sliver of moon through the window.

Russian Navy set up relay here for early warning, sound propagation, he said, but I saw he didn't believe it any more than I did.

Bradley looped the tape, digitizing snatches of signal through his laptop speakers hissing.

In one sliver, you could make out a dozen voices layered over each other, speaking in and out of sequence male, female, something childlike.

This expedition, we suggested, might also try to reach, or at least to sight, an unknown land which must be situated at no great distance from Novaya Zemlya.

The probable existence of such a land had been indicated by an officer of the Russian Navy, Baron Schilling, in an excellent but little-known paper on the currents in the Arctic Ocean.

When I read this paper, as also Lutke's Journey to Novaya Zemlya, and made myself acquainted with the general conditions of this part of the Arctic Ocean, I saw at once that the supposition must be correct.

There must be a land to the northwest of Novaya Zemlya, and it must reach a higher latitude than Spitsbergen.

This is the tiniest part that I love.

I love the guy who is the head of the Russian Navy, whose only dialogue is, "Ya, ya.

Ya, ya," walking through his... that, that little scene where he's walking to his office and you learn, you know all about him by the time he's arrived at-

Yeah

And, uh, well, only today we had some developments.

Uh, Poland's Foreign Minister, Sikorski, made a point that, uh, Poland has a military superiority over Russia, while Denmark has argued that the Russian Navy frigate fired some warning shots on a Danish patrol helicopter in the Baltic Sea.

I guess, you know, the Russians are getting fed up with having their ships, uh, you know, either seized or harassed, so they are responding.

But h- how do you see this? Is this a critical phase where NATO and Russia might start to clash to, you know, to escalate the situation?