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Originally Posted by Aktungbby

There seems to be considerable disinformation going on here Methinks this is an old game though: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-38745364 England should just claim the entire English Channel as China does the South China Seas, denying free passage and really piss off the commie bastards...precedent having been established by China!!??

Yeah, but when the russian crossed the English channel they warned to UK, France and Spain about the route taken. On the other hand, have you read the BBC note where showed a secret document in which there were discrepancies among the British high ranking whether to pass the HMS Defender there or a little further south? It was a deliberate step to seek an answer, Well, they already have it.

"The documents relating to the Royal Navy's Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, show that a mission described by the MoD as an "innocent passage through Ukrainian territorial waters", with guns covered and the ship's helicopter stowed in its hangar, was conducted in the expectation that Russia might respond aggressively."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-57624942