Point taken. I’m no sailor and thus cannot comment on what kinds of skills sets one would be expected to have in order to avoid making these kinds of mistakes in the first place. I’m sure others can contribute more from their experience with these kinds of maritime navigation issues. Thankfully, it is not the crazies…
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What’s propaganda to some, is a founding myth to others. For instance, American Exceptionalism and Manifest Destiny have been used in the past as ideological covers for political action such as the Mexican American War and the Spanish American War, not to mention Andrew Jackson’s policy of anhilitation against…
I have a feeling that the S-400 and associated systems were placed there not so much to deter the so-called coalition but rather to serve notice to Turkey that if any of its aircraft so much as locked its radar on one of Russia’s fighters flying within Russia’s undeclared no-fly zone, the entire Turkish airforce would…
Kinda of like Miss Universe ‘world peace’ (activate your sarcasm sensors).
In other words, had the Turkish leadership not committed their breathtaking miscalculation in blowing up the russian fighter (plus subsequent mid-air killing of one of their parachuted pilots by the turks’ proxies on the ground) maybe we wouldn’t have a de facto no fly zone in all of Western Syria brought to you…
What you think is irrelevant. It’s what THEY think that matters.
Lots of pics with wome wearing headscarves and hats and gloves to go to church. In some parts of the Caribbean and Spain, when people want to be elegantly dressed, out come the hats and all the other garments. It’s wasn’t just Catholics but also some Protestant denominations as well.
US doesn’t have any interests that close to Iran’s territorial waters either. So the question remains: What were they doing over there in the first place?