alphacyberranger to World NewsEnglish • 1 year agoPossible Mine Blast Rips Through Black Sea Cargo Ship Off Ukraine and Romaniathemessenger.comexternal-linkmessage-square11arrow-up1138arrow-down11
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minus-squareivanafteralllinkfedilink20•1 year agoDon’t worry, there’s no historic precedent for attacks on civilian shipping vessels leading to major war.
minus-squareflying_monkieslinkfedilink9•1 year agoNone at all. On the plus side, the last time someone went that pants-on-head stupid and put mines where they shouldn’t, it was a very short war.
minus-squareNeon 🏳️🌈🇺🇦🇪🇺🏳️⚧️🇹🇼🇮🇱🏳️🌈linkEnglish2•1 year agono, but there is precedents for attacks on civilian ships drawing other major powers into an already ongoing war.
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkEnglish1•edit-21 year agoThis comes to mind: mostly because we played that song for band one time.
minus-square@HappycamperNZlinkEnglish5•1 year agoLusitania, Athena, hospital ships and a shitload of merchant vessels operating in the exclusion zone around UK prior to America’s entry
minus-square@Burn_The_RightlinkEnglish1•1 year agoUkraine doesn’t have an errant nautical mine problem. This mine is a Russian attack on merchant vessels. If Russia can’t control the waters overtly, they will try to make it an exclusion zone, which is going to piss off a lot of other countries.
Don’t worry, there’s no historic precedent for attacks on civilian shipping vessels leading to major war.
None at all. On the plus side, the last time someone went that pants-on-head stupid and put mines where they shouldn’t, it was a very short war.
no, but there is precedents for attacks on civilian ships drawing other major powers into an already ongoing war.
This comes to mind:
mostly because we played that song for band one time.
Lusitania, Athena, hospital ships and a shitload of merchant vessels operating in the exclusion zone around UK prior to America’s entry
Ukraine doesn’t have an errant nautical mine problem. This mine is a Russian attack on merchant vessels. If Russia can’t control the waters overtly, they will try to make it an exclusion zone, which is going to piss off a lot of other countries.