alphacyberranger@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 11 months agoPossible Mine Blast Rips Through Black Sea Cargo Ship Off Ukraine and Romaniathemessenger.comexternal-linkmessage-square11fedilinkarrow-up1138arrow-down11
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minus-squareNeon 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇹🇼🇮🇱 @lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·11 months agono, but there is precedents for attacks on civilian ships drawing other major powers into an already ongoing war.
minus-squareFuglyDuck@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·edit-211 months agoThis comes to mind: mostly because we played that song for band one time.
minus-squareHappycamperNZ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·11 months agoLusitania, Athena, hospital ships and a shitload of merchant vessels operating in the exclusion zone around UK prior to America’s entry
minus-squareBurn_The_Right@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up2arrow-down1·11 months 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.
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.