• k_rol@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    Then the YouTube comment section saying how it’s our fault since we are close to China. I don’t know why I still read them.

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      9 months ago

      I’m not a bot … at least I don’t think I am

      But I still want to ask … why are Canadian military aircraft flying in international waters off the coast of China.

      How would we feel if Chinese military aircraft were flying off the coast of Canada?

      And there is military tension on Chinese borders, why would we want to further antagonize them?

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    9 months ago

    Footage really shows how crazy close they are willing to get, that’s sketchy as fuck.

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          9 months ago

          Inerceptions always follow a process of escalation. You don’t start an interception by going wing-to-wing (also because you don’t start your interception in sovereign airspace).

          Also, in this case China recognizes that land as theirs and thus that the 12 nm around it are recognized as territorial waters. Thus, it recognizes that Canada intruded on their sovereign airspace… And in that context, China would be well within their rights to shoot the plane down. From what I understand, because it’s disputed between China and Japan, Canada asked Japan for permission but not China.

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            9 months ago

            China has the most batshit, nonsensical territorial claims of any country on earth. They could shoot us down alright, but since everyone else on the planet would agree that it happened in international airspace, they would be really fucking stupid to do so

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              9 months ago

              Except… That’s not at all what people are saying. It would be either Japanese airspace or Chinese airspace. It’s not China claiming an island alone. It’s China and some other party contesting the claims. Only the Western powers claim it to be international airspace.

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    9 months ago

    Sabre rattling. They’re not going to engage. It’s about intimidation. They want reactionaries in North America to sound the alarm and make the first (wrong) move first.

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    9 months ago

    Shoot them down and they won’t play fuck-fuck games next time.

    That’s what Turkey did to Russia and Russia didn’t make a peep and haven’t bothered them since.

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      9 months ago

      Yes. Let’s just add that final nudge to get world war three kicked off in earnest.

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      9 months ago

      That’s what turkey did after theirs got shot down first.

      There is some more context to that event and it’s aftermath.

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      9 months ago

      Shoot them down

      This is why kids don’t run a country (except for America when they need a stooge). You need the brains god have a gnat to not start wars between superpowers.