The Danish straits are territorial waters of Denmark. As international straits Denmark needs to allow innocent passage, which of course doesn’t include ships that commit sabotage. I wonder if a case could be made to block ships using flags of convenience, since countries like Panama or Liberia allow effective pirate fleets to use their flags, so innocent passage can’t be assumed anymore
The ships that were caught or suspected of doing this kind of attacks all entered the Baltic though the Danish straits.
Theoretically Russia could use the White Sea–Baltic Canal to take the ships to the Baltic, but that would limit the ship size, be more cumbersome, and basically paint a target on the ships as soon as they show up outside russian waters.
Yeah, but we can’t blockade the whole area, that would be unlawful and disruptive as well. And these ships are not “technically Russian”, everyone flies some flag of convenience, so it comes back to the first problem of international shipping being and unregulated wild west.
It’s international waters, or at most EEZs, so if they did that, it would validate all of China’s shenanigans against the Philippines.
They could bomb Russian oil pipes I guess, but economic instability would get worse.
The Danish straits are territorial waters of Denmark. As international straits Denmark needs to allow innocent passage, which of course doesn’t include ships that commit sabotage. I wonder if a case could be made to block ships using flags of convenience, since countries like Panama or Liberia allow effective pirate fleets to use their flags, so innocent passage can’t be assumed anymore
But this didn’t happen in the Danish straits, it happened near Gotland, far enough from it that it’s not Danish waters.
Or didn’t it? The article doesn’t load correctly for me.
The ships that were caught or suspected of doing this kind of attacks all entered the Baltic though the Danish straits. Theoretically Russia could use the White Sea–Baltic Canal to take the ships to the Baltic, but that would limit the ship size, be more cumbersome, and basically paint a target on the ships as soon as they show up outside russian waters.
Yeah, but we can’t blockade the whole area, that would be unlawful and disruptive as well. And these ships are not “technically Russian”, everyone flies some flag of convenience, so it comes back to the first problem of international shipping being and unregulated wild west.
Which ships would you ban from crossing?