So let me understand your point correctly, Britain, by doing absolutely nothing useful and needlessly increasing tensions and creating a risk of war by transiting a ship that could have been blown up any second, was doing an admirable move?
Seems to me it was toxic internal propaganda and nothing actually useful. Meanwhile Russia sees absolutely no consequence, and they won't.
Exploiting the conundrum that Russian dictatorship has holed itself into, making it question own decisions without unnecessary bloodshed?
It has shown itself an aggressor and is alone against pretty much the whole developed world. It won’t start a war, since it will lose (both the war and the approval of own population, already not that far from revolution or civil war). All it can do is watch and bite its elbow.
Seems to me it was toxic internal propaganda and nothing actually useful. Meanwhile Russia sees absolutely no consequence, and they won't.