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UK and Norway team up to hunt Russian submarines and undersea sabotage (www.thebarentsobserver.com)
submitted 2 hours ago by Sepia@mander.xyz to c/europe@feddit.org
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The partnership is designed to protect undersea oil and gas pipelines, as well as cables for data traffic.

Both navies will operate as one – sharing maintenance facilities, technology and equipment to create truly interchangeable forces able to deploy rapidly wherever needed, the British Ministry of Defence said in a press release.

This is the most comprehensive defence agreement in modern times, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence added as the deal was sign by Defence Secretary John Healey and his Norwegian counterpart Tore O. Sandvik at 10 Downing Street on December 4.

"The British presence in the High North plays a crucial role in safeguarding Norwegian and European security," Prime Minister Jonas Gahr StΓΈre said after he met his British colleague Keir Starmer in London.

The two prime ministers then flew north to the Royal Airforce base Lossiemouth in Moray, Scotland. It is from here British P-8 maritime patrol aircraft are operating when flying missions over the North Sea or further north over the Norwegian and Barents Seas.

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[–] jenesaisquoi@feddit.org 5 points 31 minutes ago

Russian u-boats regularly violated Swedish territorial waters. Sweden complained to Russia increasingly persistently as the territorial violations went on. The Russians basically ignored them and continued.

Russian u-boats also went into Finnish territorial waters. The Finns dropped depth charges on them. The Russians complained to the Finns about attacking their boats. The Finns responded by saying, oh, I'm sorry, we were having military exercises. We did not expect anyone to be in that area as that would be illegal. Please make sure you won't go there again because we plan on continuing our exercises. Here is a map. The Russians no longer violate Finnish waters.

What do we all learn from this? Putler is a very simple mafia thug. You don't have civilised conversations with mafia thugs, you punch them in the face. They don't learn any other way.

[–] Valmond@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

So NATO is bust but Europe is waking up.

Kind of neat IMO.

[–] bonenode@piefed.social 3 points 1 hour ago

So you are happy to call out Russia on sabotage and call for destruction and "hunting down" of Russian vessels... but sending troops to Ukraine to maybe put an end to this war is somehow wrong because you'd be attacking Russian troops. Ok.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Glad to hear it!

[–] N0t_5ure@lemmy.world 5 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

It's good to see them waking up the fact that they're effectively already at war with Russia and need to fight back.

[–] xxce2AAb@feddit.dk 4 points 1 hour ago

I'm Danish, so you won't find me disagreeing with you.