• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    Hang the captain and first mate, take the oil, sink the ship. This is how we’ve always dealt with pirates.

    • AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world
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      Scrap the ship, don’t sink it. We have more than enough waste on the bottom of the various oceans and seas as is.

      • kreskin@lemmy.world
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        They use end of life ships for this shenanigans anyway. They are essentially already scrap.

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          23 hours ago

          This is normal for russian navy as even their flagships are in a state a civilized nation would consider “scrap”.

          Moscow didn’t even know it was being sunk since its systems were in such disrepair.

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      In some civilized parts of the world, we’ve renounced death penalty some time ago and only the far-right wants it back.

        • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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          You definitely could. A hanging lasts less than a day. A trial could stay in the Overton window for much longer.

          • kreskin@lemmy.world
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            Sink the boat so it interrupts shipping into one of their waterways. Do it with every sabotage boat from now on.

          • GreenKnight23@lemmy.world
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            like Trumps? or Epstein? or the Pandora Papers?

            the list goes on and on.

            Overton window is broken. Putin threw someone out of it.

            • friend_of_satan@lemmy.world
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              The point in question here is how public the event would be, not how effective. So in that regard, yes, Trump’s and even Epstien’s trials were quite public, regardless of how effective they were at rendering justice.

              You’re attacking a straw man, which is how effective the judicial system was. As for that attack, you’re absolutely right. Those three instances had laughable results and dumbfounding failures of justice.

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          Remember these are not pirates they are crew being told what to do with families back in Mother Russia and a great many pressures on them. Better a trial with all the details spewing forth and Russia blaming birdstrike and threatening armageddon over a cable.

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            I can’t have sympathy for someone who’s committed war crimes.

            I agree that having a platform to expose Russian interference is helpful, I also think setting an example to those who are helping Russia (coerced or not) is far more helpful than exposing Russia.