What do you think the money should be spent on?

It would probably blow up the port doing the laundering, which is unlikely to be happening in the EU.

But it would even more likely blow up an Indian or Chinese port.

It doesn’t matter. Like I said, I think this is a really bad idea. Mainly because it is collective punishment, and almost all of the thousands of victims would have had nothing to do with their corporations’ and their governments’ decision to buy that oil.

Throughout the deeply stupid and shameful invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan, and this is true, the US never detonated a cargo ship sized bomb killing ten thousand people in a busy port city just because they bought sanctioned oil.

Afghanistan and Iraq were terrible mistakes. And many (most?) NATO states had nothing to do with Iraq. Not that it matters right now. I’m talking about Russia’s imperialism right now.

I don’t give a fuck how Russia is run as long as they stop trying to steal land.

The US and EU might buy a little, but most of it is being bought by China, India, and Africa at a steep discount. As I’m sure you know. Everybody buying Russian oil deserves scorn, even if they are living in the EU or the US.

I should maybe add that I don’t think this is actually a good idea. I can just see that it’s scientifically possible, and I enjoy constructing scenarios like this.

But to those who are riding Putin’s dick, just know that these are the things the West could do, but chooses not to. And the fuck you to all buyers of Russian oil still stands. I don’t care how poor they are.

I would not permanently ban somebody for saying the Earth is flat. Instead, I would ban them for a week and send them on a sanity pilgrimage complete with required reading and a final test.

Quick! Some billionaire buy it to ensure its neutrality!

Steal some of the oil. Replace it at correct stoichiometric ratio with ammonium nitrate or some other powerful oxidiser. Attach a detonator and tracking device to the ship. Don’t tell the crew. Let the crew go free. When the ship reaches its destination, detonate. Halifax explosion, round two.

Fuck you, whoever would buy Russian oil.

Ah yes that’s it. Steal the oil, sell it, and use the proceeds to pay the crew to sabotage Russia and its allies.

Oh, also, steal the oil.

Sounds to me like war crimes are still a pretty good way to determine who the good guys are, then.

What is your “high”?

We are going to high-road the shit out of them.

Indeed. I for one would like these ass hats to have a good look at the culture they were so willing to fuck with, for such little money. The best view is not from a prison cell.

And how do we deal with saboteurs and enablers of sanctions evasion?

The head of the investigation, Risto Lohi of the National Bureau of Investigation, told Reuters the vessel was threatening to cut a second power cable, Estlink1, and the BalticConnector gas pipe between Finland and Estonia at the time it was seized.

“Lohi” is Finnish for “salmon”. That’s right. Inspector Salmon is in charge of this investigation. Thankyou, Finland.

Does Germany do them any more? How about Ireland?

Pay them to sabotage the infrastructure of Russia and its allies. Plainly all this crew wants is money.