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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by thyristan on Friday January 02, 2026 @05:02AM (#46463265)
Oil tankers are basically "weapons of mass environment destruction" (slight hyperbole, sorry ;). When you shoot at them, or their captains have the valves opened, their oil will devastate a sizable chunk of sea and coastline.

So you really need to tread lightly around enemy oil tankers.

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Re:Finland detains ship and its crew after critical undersea... by JumpCrisscross on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:06PM (#46468167)
> Oil tankers are basically "weapons of mass environment destruction"

Which is why you sink them empty. Ukraine has been doing this for months now.

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