There are a lot of things that America does to other countries that would be taken as acts of war if they were done to America.
I have to call bullshit on this, sorry.
The Russians did this sort of thing all the time during the cold war: parking nuclear submarines off the East Coast, flying bomber runs along the border, reconnaissance -- the list goes on and on. On both sides. There was never an "act of war" Even the Cuban Missile Crisis (which did not have mutants, by the way) ended peacefully.
Look, I think it's great to point out there are two sides of every story. But this type of statement goes beyond a simple plea for "take a look at the other side, guys" and heads into propaganda territory, i.e. everything is mostly the same. So I had to call you on it. Let's not go there.
Why? Because this is a good topic. It calls into question the intersection of governments, technology, and rule of law. The whole point of the article is destroyed if you just say it's all the same. It's not.
Every bad thing in the world can't be erased by an over-application of equivocation. That kind of thing is for spinners. We head down this road next you'll be telling me that China owns vast hunks of ocean and various islands that everybody else says they don't.
Nations unfortunately engage in a lot of belligerant actions that can easily spiral out of control. The long term risk with the USA conducting operations in international waters around China - which they are perfectly entitled to do so - is that areas of contested territory such as the Spratly islands in the South China Sea could easily become flashpoints for needless conflict.
It is a flashpoint irrespective of whether we're there. That area has been contested for years. It's not belligerence on our part to attempt to maintain order.
I have to call bullshit on this, sorry.
The Russians did this sort of thing all the time during the cold war: parking nuclear submarines off the East Coast, flying bomber runs along the border, reconnaissance -- the list goes on and on. On both sides. There was never an "act of war" Even the Cuban Missile Crisis (which did not have mutants, by the way) ended peacefully.
Look, I think it's great to point out there are two sides of every story. But this type of statement goes beyond a simple plea for "take a look at the other side, guys" and heads into propaganda territory, i.e. everything is mostly the same. So I had to call you on it. Let's not go there.
Why? Because this is a good topic. It calls into question the intersection of governments, technology, and rule of law. The whole point of the article is destroyed if you just say it's all the same. It's not.
Every bad thing in the world can't be erased by an over-application of equivocation. That kind of thing is for spinners. We head down this road next you'll be telling me that China owns vast hunks of ocean and various islands that everybody else says they don't.