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by rasz 26 days ago
But UK didnt send a single missile or drone into russia. This to russia is a sign of weakness and permission to keep pushing.

https://www.gbnews.com/news/russia-news-keir-starmer-kremlin...

"Almost 200 so-called Russian "shadow fleet" vessels have entered UK waters since the prime minister threatened to intercept them nearly seven weeks ago, BBC Verify analysis suggests." https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cn8pvgw802no

Strong signal would be Alexander Mishkin, Anatoliy Chepiga and their superior fatally slipping on Ice in downtown Moscow, not putting them on sanctions list.

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Googling what happened:

>In what then Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson called an "extraordinary international response" on the part of the UK's allies, on 26 and 27 March 2018 there followed a concerted action by the U.S., most EU member states, Albania, Australia, Canada, Macedonia, Moldova, and Norway, and other NATO states to expel a total of over 140 Russian accredited diplomats (including those expelled by the UK)

which I guess is not wacking Mishin and Chepiga but it's not nothing either.

140 sounds like a lot until you realize there is ~50 in UK alone right now, and ~3000 across EU.

Austria, the central hub of FSB spy network (https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/jul/01/vladimir-putin...), has over 200.

Freezing ownership of https://nypost.com/2023/03/16/putin-allys-child-revealed-as-... and many more https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/news/2025/11/03/8005603/ like it would hurt putin more than some tiny number or diplomats.