It's a weird premise to compare the UK government actions to those of Israel and defend the sanctity of Russia and the Cameroonian shipping registry.

Also, the following line is absolutely laughable.

> Fortunately Putin is neither as war hungry nor as politically desperate as Starmer.

Murray defended Russian state previously too - see this, for example:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Craig_Murray#Scepticism_about_...