New footage published by the French Navy from yesterday’s interception, boarding, and seizure of the stateless sanctioned crude oil tanker, M/T GRINCH - part of Russia’s Shadow Fleet - in the Western Mediterranean near the Strait of Gibraltar between Spain and Morocco.

37% chance the French seize another tanker before March.

Europe is stepping up, stopping Russia from moving oil and enforcing sanctions in the Mediterranean.

Shadow fleets only work until interdiction becomes routine policy.

French are trying to show they are big players, too. Goes with Macron's sunglasses.

macron is like "hey i can do that too"

Interdicting near Gibraltar matters. Its a strategic chokepoint and action there sends a message well beyond the Mediterranean.

france nabs another shadow tanker, straight hit to moscovia's war chest. every barrel they lose means fewer shells on ukrainian positions. squeeze harder.

Trump show EU how to do it but they have forgotten Russia is only afraid of US not EU

The sun is setting on the shadow fleet; after witnessing the Progress tanker's failure this morning, we are now watching the French Navy board and seize the M/T GRINCH near Gibraltar. Russia’s gamble to bypass sanctions has turned into a military hunt. This is the field reality of the Meloni-Merz defense stance; the fairy tales are over, and realism is speaking from the gun barrels and onto the deck.

Well done, France

The EU needs to do a lot more of this. Every day this should be happening.

France is playing with the fire

Europe is getting awakened.

Well that's how you film a Boarding maneuver, Yankees🇪🇺👊

Her "Deck" looks well maintained ..... but remember this: The vessel is 22 yo, her Skeleton Construction and Bulkheads are from the Yeltsin Era, it is a Soviet Rust Bucket:

It seems Putin is going to have more problems than he anticipated.

Dangerous game being played by France here. The French and British ‘shadow’ forces inside Ukraine are likely about to get an Oreshnik up their back sides. If it escalates, Russian doesn’t need to worry at all because it is in the driving seat now. It has something that America

France just yeeted a Russian shadow fleet tanker near Gibraltar. Grinch got grinched. Oil sanctions finally showing teeth 🦷💥

Based

Getting punked out by France has got to be one of the most cringe and frankly, retarded ways to operate as a "superpower"

Not good showing unnecessary heroics

OMG! What if the French get back to being the French and stop being head pawns in the globalist nonsense?

Not like the movies, haha: At 1:01 the solder's tone sounds like hotel "room service" - only he's saying "French Navy, we are French Navy"

Any interest in covering this?

Polymarket feels like a window into the future.

France is getting in on the action

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Sanctions at sea are getting real. What worries people more: the shadow fleet dodging rules in “stateless” mode, or the precedent of navies physically seizing commercial ships in busy chokepoints?

viva la france

Strong message sent 🚨 France cracking down on Russia’s shadow fleet and illegal oil trafficking.

Order improves stability.

@grok La France a t’il montré sa force en faisant cet arraisonnement ?

French Navy cleaning house in the Med again