As a former USCG officer, this looks like piracy to me. Doesn’t matter that the US did it. If you substitute ‘Somalia’ for ‘US’ in that bit, you end up with piracy.
This is escalation. No other way to look at this.
This is escalation. No other way to look at this.
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Indeed. Highly provocative.
What would we say if it was Russia doing something like this?