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A hotel with bedrooms. Whatever will they think of next?

Five "shadow tankers" used to transport sanctioned Russian oil have been attacked in the last three months - four in the Mediterranean, and one in the Baltic Sea. The Baltic Sea one was confirmed as a limpet mine, and it's likely that the others also used this method. Having driven the Russian fleet out of the Black Sea, it seems that the country without a navy is successfully expanding its attacks on shipping with a Russian connection. Refineries, storage tanks and now shipping, the Ukrainian branch of Just Stop (Russian) Oil doesn't mess about.

I'll see your high beams and raise you... From the old Aussie "Ettamogah Pub cartoons:

John le Carré summed Trump up in his book "Agent Running in the Field", published in 2019: “He’s Putin’s sh**house cleaner. He does everything for little Vladi that little Vladi can’t do for himself: pisses on European unity, pisses on human rights, pisses on NATO. Assures us that Crimea and Ukraine belong to the Holy Russian Empire, the Middle East belongs to the Jews and the Saudis, and to hell with the world order." And, in the same book: “Putin had always been a fifth-rate spy. Now he was a spy turned autocrat who interpreted all life in terms of konspiratsia. Thanks to Putin and his gang of unredeemed Stalinists, Russia was not going forward to a bright future, but backwards into her dark, delusional past.”