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Welcome back to It Could Happen here and our special two-part series, Irregular Naval Warfare and You, where James and I teach you how you too can challenge the U.S. Navy's dominance of the seas or at least the coasts for fun and profit.

Actually today, last episode, we talked about

people challenging the U.S. Navy's coastal dominance. Today, we're talking about doing the same thing

for the Russian Navy. So that's going to be fun. And of course, the Navy of Myanmar, which is a bit

of a different class from the U.S. and Russian Navy, but no less interesting.

Yeah, still fun.

We love to see a boat lose.

Yeah, I just like boats going down, you know.

I just hate a boat.

Yeah.

Us, the Yorkers, many, you know, we're coming together on this.

Yeah.

I'm going to start with Ukraine, and then we're going to throw to James to talk about our friends in Myanmar and how they have repurposed civilian technology and stolen weapons to counter a navy without really having one of their own. But first, Ukraine.

In 2014, when the Russian army invaded eastern Ukraine and took Crimea, Ukraine lost a significant portion of its already not that impressive Navy.

Most of their boats were just taken by Russia, along with a number of sailors who defected.

A lot of other sailors fled the region, leaving behind their homes in cities like Sebastopol to

continue serving their country and a war that, a decade later, is still ongoing.

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