There is no ‘shadow fleet’, unless you believe in a ‘white fleet’, AKA White Supremacy. As Ukraine-based KSE says “[a] vessel is classified as part of the “white fleet” – because the price cap will apply to its operations involving Russian oil.” This is not about international law, it's about imperial command; the White Empire trying to set prices for Russia, which will not bend. As the US Naval Institute says, “a vessel is part of the gray fleet if: it is not owned, operated and financed from an EU/G7+ entity (e.g., ownership based in Russia); it is insured with a P&I insurance not from the International Group of P&I [in London].” That's all shadow fleet means, it's not that these ships don't have paperwork and insurance, it's just that it's not from them. Who them? The White Empire behind all these false flags, which runs a ‘white fleet’ and calls anyone free a shadow because they're White Supremacist to the end.

All these sources refer to the empire that has no name, which I call White Empire to spare myself the commas and explaining (“EU/G7+ entity,” what a mouthful of bullshit). The White Empire (which runs the white fleet) is the colonizing/colonized countries that used ships to take shit and and then used shipping regulations to keep things flowing their way, with gunboats to enforce White Supremacism liberally. They use sanctions—which are acts of war under international law—to starve and coerce certain countries and call them ‘international’ if they get a few of their own false flags to go along. But countries are free to ship and trade with each other without being registered in London or using imperial tonnage. Yet the imperial they call those countries ‘illegal’ for just sailing around their own oceans, just as they call the natives ‘illegal’ for walking around their own continent. White Supremacy runs through all these definitions, like the White on this page. And it's an outrage.

America and its colonial cousins have no right to seize Venezuelan ships and murder Venezuelans sailors in the ocean. This is worse than piracy, as pirates don't try to starve entire nations into submission. The White Empire has no right to seize ships going from China to Iran, which is not their Empire even. And they have no right to attack Russian ships and call them a ‘shadow fleet’ for not bending the knee to the white fleet, which won't supply them anyways. The European Parliament openly calls “to limit Russia’s ability to acquire tankers from the ‘white fleet,’” they want them to just accept imperial price controls and imperial hegemony. This is all backed by open theft and thinly disguised White Supremacism. They call themselves a White Fleet, and consider everyone else beneath them. But you should lift the wool out of your eyes at least. The White isn't right, it's just might, and the shadows are free.

The sad fact is that the people that are supposed to report these facts use such simple words to hide such simple crimes from simpletons. The privatized propaganda outlets in the West report on countries ‘evading sanctions’ and operating a ‘shadow fleet’ and never once go an inch deeper to show that these are not international sanctions, and that you don't have to be approved by a White country to sail in international waters. This is not the rules-based order, it's the ruse-based order and the White media are chief wool drawers. After years of trying to launder a whole genocide, however, I'd like to think their media's credibility is burnt along with so many bodies, but the words are still out there and they still hurt. ‘Shadow fleet’, ‘evading sanctions’, the sanctimonious prose of White Supremacism, laundered through their suck-ass media institutions.

The shipping journals, like the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Lloyd's List, are at least a bit more honest. Therein, Mark O’Neil, CEO of something, says, “When we talk about the shadow fleet or the dark fleet, those descriptions are no longer valid. We’re perhaps as much of a shadow of the dark fleet as its fleet is to ours.” It's precisely this. There are people outside the orbit of White Empire who cannot insure their ships there and those who do not want to participate in its siege warfare against entire populations.

The White media's line is that these people should just stay home and submit to Empire, or else be called darkies and pirates and shunned. But shunned from what? The White Empire is the one doing the shadowy shit, like using warships to blow up innocents in Yemen, and using bureaucratic bullshit to try and besiege entire nations. There's no sense to these sanctions, they're just acts of war that all the false flags of White Empire (EU, G8-) rally around, and which the White media gets the advertising rights for. It's just the colonizers and their colonizing complaining that some people won't just roll over. It's just the colonial idea that might makes right, but luckily their might is no more.

For exactly how the White Empire's might is no more, I invite you to become a paying subscriber (or email me at indi@indi.ca if you can't afford and I'll gift you one, no explanation required). What follows is short but includes a painting.