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[–] whotookkarl@lemmy.dbzer0.com 11 points 5 hours ago
[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 46 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago) (10 children)

The americans knew the ship was coming for a military exercise without ammunition, they couldn't just seize it and captured everyone and got the ship? I'm missing something?

[–] d33pblu3g3n3@lemmy.world 14 points 2 hours ago

Terrorists want blood.

[–] Typhoon@lemmy.ca 47 points 7 hours ago

They could've done that with Venezuela's "drug boats" too but didn't. That's because the goal was actually to kill people.

[–] Infinite@lemmy.zip 27 points 8 hours ago

You assume they wanted the ship or prisoners more than the death and suffering

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[–] shittydwarf@sh.itjust.works 84 points 11 hours ago (2 children)

Fun fact: they were unarmed

[–] Hupf@feddit.org 2 points 59 minutes ago

And doesn't that scare you to death?

[–] return2ozma@lemmy.world 230 points 13 hours ago (33 children)
[–] SammyJK@programming.dev 112 points 13 hours ago (4 children)

What the actual fuck? The US has turned into a parody of itself. It's sad to see.

[–] Maeve@kbin.earth 7 points 5 hours ago

This is who we always were. Real time media for events out of sight and earshot is relatively new. And that's partly why they want to heavily censor and spy on us.

[–] lennybird@lemmy.world 27 points 11 hours ago (6 children)

It is my first belief that this is the point.

And Putin is quite happy.

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[–] BC_viper@lemmy.world 56 points 12 hours ago (7 children)

This is just the start. The old world broke once russia invaded Ukraine and we did nothing. Now other countries have realized that the world wont do anything if they also attack. Expansion has once again started. I expect Taiwan to be finished by summer too.

[–] Tollana1234567@lemmy.today 1 points 27 minutes ago

china only wants taiwans chip factories, they arnt getting it if they invade.

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[–] tidderuuf@lemmy.world 67 points 13 hours ago (6 children)

It's weird how the US is turning into everything it fought against. Was fun while it lasted.

[–] 3abas@lemmy.world 2 points 1 hour ago

John McCain is celebrating wildly in Hell. Bombing Iran has been an American dream for decades!

[–] unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Can we stop inventing fake shit please? The US has never been a force against evil except for that one time 80 years ago.

[–] napkin2020@sh.itjust.works 4 points 6 hours ago

I think the op is talking about that certain time but ok

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