Google: “shadow fleet” “cable” before:2022-02-24
Results: 76400
Google: “shadow fleet” “cable” after:2022-02-24
Thats an exlusive after, so only those AFTER 2022-02-24.
Results: 90900
Wait… Lets make this more fun!
Google: “shadow fleet” “cable” after:2024-11-20
Results: 29500
So just to summarize:
54.33% of all google index entries (167300) containing both “cable” and “shadow fleet” were created after the start of the full scale russian invasion into Ukraine in 2022. Over the past two years and ten months.
Over that time the monthly increase over the entirety of the 34.19 months averaged:
90900/34.19 = 2659 entries per months
while after 2024-11-20, so in the past 38 days that increase grew to 29500 in just those 38 days alone.
So the last 38 days showed a total growth worth 11 of the previous months, and 17.63% of all mentions of those two terms on the internet (as seen by the google search crawler) in total.
Oh, journalist - dont you want to tell about “shadowfleets” second meaning again as ships that cut “cables”? The one thats only applicable to russias full scale invasion of Ukraine 54.33% of the time, and 17.63% of the times refers to things that only happened in the past 38 days?
Would you be kind enough to tell me again that this other meaning of shadow fleet means “ships that are used to cut sea cables”?
Because it surely seems like you made all of this up, so Nato loving european nations could sanction russias shadow fleet in the near future.
Oh please dear journalist -- explain it to me one last time…
Shit, if only the public could use google to find out whats happening here, .…
edit: But wait, it doesnt stop there - what if we apply the following filter, so to force exclude any result that also contains the term russian or russia?
Google: “shadow fleet” “cable” -russian -russia
167300 results (for the same search including russian or russia) shrink down to 6970
and if we apply
Google: “shadow fleet” “cable” -russian -russia before:2022-02-24
167300 results shrink down to 1110
Meaning, the combination of the terms “shadow fleet” and “cable” before the full scale russian invasion into ukraine and without the words russia or russian anywhere in the article only account for 0.6635% of all google search results for the terms “shadow fleet” and “cable”.
Shit, dear journalist, do you want to tell me one more time, what shadow fleet means in combination with cutting cables in russias case? Because it means absolutely SHIT outside the ukraine war, without the term russian or russia next to it.
And thats applied linguistics during a war.
Journalists will explain to you those special cases of the thing they just made up, so they could help sanction russias shadow fleet, because shadow fleet also means cutting cables, when the US does want it to attain that meaning.
And never before.
And for no fucking other reason.