A Chinese military jet intercepted a Canadian Armed Forces Aurora aircraft in an “aggressive manner” on Monday in international waters off the coast of China...
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.
A long time ago, every comment on YouTube was vitriol. It didn’t matter what the video was, every single comment was pure poison. Today you can safely read the comments on videos that don’t have political context. Of course anything political is going to be completely overrun with state level astroturfing, extremists, and mouth breathers. Occasionally I’ll accidentally read the comments on something political, forgetting that comments should be off-limits for that video.
You should see the shit Microsoft pulls with MSNBC. Editorialized headlines, and direct comments sections. It’s pure toxic garbage, and they jam it down boomer throats by making it the default landing page in Edge (and IE) and that stupid “news and interests” spot on the taskbar that you have to disable.
This being the same company that got themselves into an antitrust lawsuit for bundling IE with Windows 20 years ago. Fucking bonkers how horribly times have changed.
why are Canadian military aircraft flying in international waters off the coast of China
From the description of the video, should you care to read it:
Global News was on board the Canadian military aircraft reporting on the mission, which is part of Operation NEON, Canada’s contribution to helping enforce sanctions against North Korea, when the aggressive intercepts took place.
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.
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
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.
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.
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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.
To make the first move first?!
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.
Comments are full of bots
Unfortunately, many people are just pants on head retarded and believe the most recent thing they read.
I believe everything you just said.
Why do you still read them? (Edit: I’m not being snarky, I’m curious why)
Every few months I forget why I stopped reading comment sections and dip back into unmoderated comments on news sites. It’s awful.
I think I often hope occasionally reporting comments helps slowly make the platforms better. But it really doesn’t seem to 😞
Not enough mods.
The mods are bots too.
At this point, I’m pretty sure I’m a bot too.
It’s bots all the way down…
I joke but that reminds me of the Dead Internet Theory
A long time ago, every comment on YouTube was vitriol. It didn’t matter what the video was, every single comment was pure poison. Today you can safely read the comments on videos that don’t have political context. Of course anything political is going to be completely overrun with state level astroturfing, extremists, and mouth breathers. Occasionally I’ll accidentally read the comments on something political, forgetting that comments should be off-limits for that video.
You should see the shit Microsoft pulls with MSNBC. Editorialized headlines, and direct comments sections. It’s pure toxic garbage, and they jam it down boomer throats by making it the default landing page in Edge (and IE) and that stupid “news and interests” spot on the taskbar that you have to disable.
This being the same company that got themselves into an antitrust lawsuit for bundling IE with Windows 20 years ago. Fucking bonkers how horribly times have changed.
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?
Well it’s international airspace and nations can fly whatever they want inside international airspace regardless of the proximity to a nation.
Russians do it to Canada and the United States often but it doesn’t make much fanfare because the parties involved handle it professionally
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/russian-bombers-buzz-canadian-airspace-1.5447833
https://www.stripes.com/branches/air_force/2022-10-18/russian-bombers-alaska-american-jets-7735230.html
It said why in the video.
From the description of the video, should you care to read it:
Uh, they already do that. We generally don’t buzz the planes and antagonize them
You mean, why are planes flying in international airspace?
Maybe grow up a bit, China. You’re behaving like a toddler.
How would we feel if they sent spy balloons directly over our countries?
Canada > China, they don’t need permission to fly planes over the ocean
It’s part of our role in ensuring international sanctions are followed
It’s about shipping lanes to North Korea, nothing to do with China
Footage really shows how crazy close they are willing to get, that’s sketchy as fuck.
Footage doesn’t show the escalation process though lol
What escalation process?
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
That’s what turkey did after theirs got shot down first.
There is some more context to that event and it’s aftermath.
Yes. Let’s just add that final nudge to get world war three kicked off in earnest.
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