Vlad The Invader's Shadow Fleets.

Starmer has cleared the way for the Royal Navy to board Russian 'shadow fleets'. So what are shadow fleets? Shadow fleets are ships that use deception in various ways to get past ships patrolling that will interdict them, board them, and check that they are not carrying. anything that will help Putin's war with Zelenskyy. Recently, a ship from Venezuela (if I have this correct), before Maduro, was whisked from that country to the US to face trial, and reflagged itself flying the Russian colours. The fugitive ship, which had failed to collect Venezuelan oil from the under-siege Maduro regime, was hoping to race across the Atlantic and outrun its American pursuers. The ship had arranged to meet Russian ships to protect it. But the US ships caught up with it and, together with UK forces, boarded the ship.

Sir Keir said he had ordered the Royal Navy (RN) to board suspect ships not only to protect the UK, but to stop whatever these ships are carrying from reaching Russia and funding/helping his "war machine". These are Starmer's worlds as he seeks to combat Putin on the high seas, whether that be by stopping pirate vessels carrying contraband heading for Russia or Russian warships. Sir Keir is currently in Helsinki, Finland, to meet other Northern European leaders. The meeting is about a joint group of 10 Northern European nations called the Joint Expeditionary Force, or JEF, to declare that they are one with Ukraine in its fight with Russia.

The UK is the Head of this undertaking, where other JEF nations like Finland, Sweden, and Estonia have boarded these shadow fleets in the Baltic Sea. The more ships that are boarded and stopped, the fewer ships carrying goods bound for Russia will get there. If fewer ships are reaching Russia because of this, then that will affect Putin's war machine at least in the Atlantic. No doubt, China, North Korea and even Iran, even though it is in a fight for the survival of its Islamic regime against the US and Israel, are still supplying Russia.

The war started by Vlad the Invader (Putin) has been running for 5 long years now. When Russia first invaded Ukraine, it thought it would take all of all the country. However, Russian forces did not reach Kyiv and soon were bogged down in a slog fest with Ukrainian forces. Russia will always have the upper hand in men and material. The sheer determination of the Ukrainian armed forces to hold out against Russia has come at a great cost for Russia in men and equipment. Russia holds a rump bit of Ukraine, and it is making slow, grinding progress. The war has cost Ukraine much in men and material, also. The West props up Ukraine with money, advisors, and weapons to keep Vlodymyr Zelenskyy's regime in the fight.

To people like Sir Keir Starmer, the war against Iran launched on February 28 is illegal and unnecessary. This war, in his opinion, is distracting from the real danger, that of Russia and China. The US is sending a Marine carrier from Japan, for example, to the Persian Gulf. This diversion is ridiculous and takes the US's eyes off China, as China has designs on Taiwan.

This Iran War is stupid and unjustified, all because of Netanyahu and his fascist regime want to expand to a greater Israel. For 40 years, Netanyahu has been dreaming of this and knocking out Iran, because Iran stands in the way of Israel's plans. Obama and Biden were clever enough to reject Netanyahu's plans, but Trump has fallen for it, lock, stock, and barrel, big time. He has put America's men and women in harm's way. The price of gas and oil will go through the roof. Trump's billionaire buddies will not have to worry because they have the cushion of vast wealth to protect them. This will fall on the poorest in the West who are already struggling with the cost of living.

Sir Keir has not and will not join the US and Israel in attacking Iran. Sir Keir, in the beginning, did not want US bombers to use British bases on their way to Iran. However, he has now allowed this, so does this make us complicit in this war?

British Typhoon fighters are patrolling the Middle East to shoot down Iranian projectiles. HMS Dragon is steaming its way to Cyprus, unless it has already arrived to protect British civilians and military personnel after a British base was hit by a drone either from Iranian ally Hezbollah or Iran itself.