India would have taken great offence at the conduct of combat operations in Indian territorial waters.
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It wasn’t indian territorial waters. But the point still remains.
Yes, obviously and then it would also actually have been, problematic under International Law to say the least. The sinking is a non-issue in terms of war crimes, which I raised because I found it very distasteful. But it is no War Crime.
Not only NATO.
Going off on a tangent but related to needless reinvention, NASA’s delayed again and again and again Artemis need a horribly expensive SLS rocket to place the Orion spacecraft in lunar orbit and then rely on the also behind schedule Starship HLS (with up to possibly 20 launches for refueling) to put boots on the regolith again.
They had done it with just a single launch of Saturn 5 each time on 6 occasions in the 60s and 70s. Why not do the same or similar instead of trying to be too smart?
I’ll take it as a badge of fucking pride.
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Well, they are mobilising. And Aliyev is a serial-killer, so will not flinch from border incursions. Setting up a buffer sone etc. Azerbadjan will absolutely retaliate militarily.
The levee really breaks when they hit Saudi proper.
Pretty sure @odin_telamon was in fact a Leave voter. As poor a decision as I think Leave was, there is a great yawning gulf between MAGA and Leave - though Farage is striving valiantly to close that gap
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Was it not previously in Indian waters? My impression was that the US submarine attacked just over the line.
It was a vessel invited by india. And then they had to leave the Indian protected waters to go around that. They got engaged beyond indian territorial waters
Related to my posts above about Hezbollah’s suicide note and the Israeli invasion
Lebanon
I’d be supportive of those responsible for upholding international law actually doing their job as a starter for 10.
I understand there’s an onus on other countries to actually call it out but that’s just not happening. There’s people on here that undoubtedly know more on this than I ever will.
But until the US and other nations start being held accountable, then nothing will change.
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I have already said this many days ago and explaining why as well.
But worth a reminder, using some flashy graphics.
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Exactly - the US sub was lurking outside Indian waters waiting to strike. There is nothing to suggest they waited so that rescue capacity would have further to go, and as @Magnus points out they clearly chose a crippling but slow stern strike.
Related to post above.
And related to my many warnings in this thread about dragging unwilling combatants in, causing major diplomatic rifts. Because to be frank, the UK has a responsibility to protect Cyprus. You may hate that, it is still fact.
Iran’s retaliation is dragging many, many in. It’s clearly Irans Götterdämmerung Strategy. They clearly are expecting the fall of the regime, severely raising costs and economic damage so that the war will go down in history as a major mistake. The latter is their goal (sure, such a wild Gambit also has a tiny chance of making the US bow out, which is part of it, though it will also ensure they get attacked by all sorts of states due to necessity to respond to Iranian strikes).
Looks increasingly likely that the strike that destroyed the girls school was an intel fuck-up. IRGC had in the past used it as part of the complex hosting the unit there, but not for a few years. Sloppy operational planning (incompetent leadership producing unrealistic timelines results in errors) causing civilian casualties, yet again.
The US has not actually admitted it, but simply by the boundaries of the investigation it is clear it was a US strike, leaving aside the geographic location. The coverage is building momentum now, in part because of the early futile efforts at denial, obfuscation, and misdirection. Satellite photo analysis is showing that the school has been destroyed by the same type of precise munitions that destroyed the IRGC complex.
As an aside, it is not a defence of this type of strike to say it was accidental. This target was in a civilian area, with a very high likelihood of any targeting error producing civilian casualties. Targets such as this are permissible to engage only if they are sufficient importance to lethal capacity - a barracks and some supply cabinets don’t meet that test. Every NATO force has a training program for Collateral Damage Assessment to screen out this kind of strike. Verification of the status of the targets is a critical step.
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Here you go, I just made a Thread Reading thingy
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FOR FUCK SAKE !
Hungary is about to invade Ukraine. The EU should have dealt with that nazi bastard Orban years ago, but inaction leads to this
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