No one thinks through the things they say here. It’s just what feels good in the moment. At this point any country has free reign to attack any vessel they desire in international waters. Shit, Japan should start launching rockets at Chinese civilian ships because of Hong Kong/Taiwan; US should attack any Russian civilian ships because of Ukraine; any other military operations we should be conducting around the world on behalf of anyone?
It would be incredibly self-defeating if they did, the ‘rules based order’ relies on not having shipping lanes becoming a warzone. Plus that would rapidly escalate to ww3.
Should the american navy start sinking russian civilian ships to make Russia stop invading Ukraine?
No one thinks through the things they say here. It’s just what feels good in the moment. At this point any country has free reign to attack any vessel they desire in international waters. Shit, Japan should start launching rockets at Chinese civilian ships because of Hong Kong/Taiwan; US should attack any Russian civilian ships because of Ukraine; any other military operations we should be conducting around the world on behalf of anyone?
It would be incredibly self-defeating if they did, the ‘rules based order’ relies on not having shipping lanes becoming a warzone. Plus that would rapidly escalate to ww3.