The news footage was satisfyingly reminiscent of Mission: Impossible . Masked French commandoes swarmed up the side of the rusty oil tanker Boracay , assault rifles drawn, and commenced their search for evidence the vessel had been responsible for launching Russian drones at Danish airports. The captain and first officer – both Chinese nationals – were taken into custody. France’s president Emmanuel Macron could not confirm that the Boracay was responsible for the drone attacks – but did make it clear that stopping the vessel off the coast of St Nazaire was intended as ‘a step moving towards a policy of obstruction of suspicious ships in our waters that are involved in trafficking’ Russian oil. The intention, according to Macron, was to ‘increase pressure on Russia to convince it to

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