Posted on 08/05/2023 11:08:19 AM PDT by Navy Patriot
Tit for Tat, and the U.S. is funding the Tit.
It'll take a while to see the punishment and the results of it.
Now the Russians are going to invade Ukraine and start killing innocent civilians!
Oh wait!
They already have been doing that! Never mind!
Till the lake runs dry.
RU military ship - under charter carrying military gear is a legitimate military target.
“In WWI they executed a British merchant captain for attempting to ram the U-boat that was trying to sink him.”
And the Brits ran a blockade against German ports. They would sing any ship that tried to run the line. Including neutral country’s merchant shipping.... like ours. They also attacked the undersea cable and forced all Euro/US traffic to go through England.
What a bunch of BS.
We talk about bans on mines, bans on mercenaries, bans on cluster munitions, bans on chemical weapons, bans on napalm, bans on torture and requiring humane treatment of prisoners, we have requirements for soldiers to wear uniforms, follow the rules of land warfare (Geneva convention), we talk about the concept of a “just war,” and “proportionality in war,” and now you talk about how there are no rules?
It’s real simple. We’re all for rules when we’re the red coats (the big conventional force), until it benefits us not to follow rules (when we fight an non-conventional war).
But that begs the question, what exactly separates you from the folks we held at GITMO for years?
PS, the NAZIs had huge stockpiles and an advantage in the chemical warfare realm. They invented some of the nerve agents! They never used them in the war: https://cen.acs.org/articles/94/i41/Nazi-origins-deadly-nerve-gases.html. They invented Tabun in 1937, the first practical nerve agents.
PSS, the NAZIs held our POWs and despite our BS Hollywood films treated them right for the most part, until the wars end when everything fell apart and even the Germans were without food and diseases started to break out... The Germans held ~ 94,000 US POW! Far more than most people realize: https://www.history.navy.mil/research/library/online-reading-room/title-list-alphabetically/u/us-prisoners-war-civilian-american-citizens-captured.html#:~:text=In%20addition%20to%20these%20casualties,Prisoners%20of%20War%20(POWs).&text=Germany%20held%20almost%2094%2C000%20U.S.%20POWs%2C%20and%20Japan%20held%20over%2027%2C000. Kurt Vonnegut was a US POW in Germany.
You would be the first one crying faul and talking about “crimes against humanity” (another slogan we like to use which implies rules) if it were the other way around.
Yes, however the Conquerors may be your fellow citizens espousing policy contrary to decency and your nation's traditional values.
Worse, those citizens could be hired and paid by Foreigners, enforcing policy contrary to decency and your nation's traditional values.
When involved in a War, you need to know who the Enemy is.
And the Brits ran a blockade against German ports...They also attacked the undersea cable and forced all Euro/US traffic to go through England.
Running a blockade implies a risk of sinking. The warship pulls you over, inspects your cargo and if the cargo isn’t war goods, the ship is let through. The Brits did expand the definition of war materials to include almost anything going into Germany.
I believe the undersea cable was cut on the first of second day of the war.
No, it wasn't.
Unfortunately, someone usually ups the ante.
I wish you could have met Mr. Brown. Old man, lived two doors down
from our house. Never knew his first name. Air Corp bomber pilot.
My Dad asked him to tell me of his time as a POW in WWII.
He told me how the Germans would make them give up their boots.
It was to keep them from escaping and it worked.
Especially in the winter.
Anecdotal, you say? To you it is. Not to me.
Anyway, I guess you could call that treating them right...for the most part.
the cynic says...at least they kept their socks
the realist says...at least he kept his life.
All Russia's got to do is whack 'em bigger to make good on their word.
No problem, the US is delighted to prostitute the dollar until prostitutes won't accept it.
Drunken' Sailor - Irish Rovers - Lyrics
I can fit that in nicely.
Thanks, Mac, for the brain worm.
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