The interesting thing about this is that those who impose political correctness on us are the ones who are trying to make us like the USSR. Once they gain power PC goes out the window.
Were an American ship to have done that the cries of racism and the multiple lawsuits would be coming from these same people. What is sauce for the goose is poison for the gander.
Every man, woman, and child on this planet is engaged in a continuous war of attrition with the totalitarians.
But since a Russian captain and crew did it, the pirates are likely to avoid Russian ships in future.
Piracy on the high seas cannot always be dealt with using the niceties of due process. The Somalis are brigands and understand only the use of deadly force.
And there is also a Somali underworld problem in this country, just saying.