I go a bit further - IF there is another Russian ship taken, and the pirates kill their citizens as is threatened by this “spokesman”, the Russians will launch a major reprisal attack into the pirates’ “safehaven” ... if this starts a war with that “nation”, so be it.
>I go a bit further - IF there is another Russian ship taken, and the pirates kill their citizens as is threatened by this “spokesman”, the Russians will launch a major reprisal attack into the pirates’ “safehaven” ... if this starts a war with that “nation”, so be it.>
There is no nation to fight with. ‘Somalian pirates’ are actually a group of gangs.
They could be hurt badly by police means. I mean by BAD police means, not Mirandizing.
Cutting a few leaders into pieces, bulldozing a few communities giving a shelter to a gangs etc.
A set of standard means Russians successfully used against their muslim pals for centuries.