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TinkersW ◴[] No.42193081[source]
This is the 2nd time China did this in that Baltic isn't it? Both times look intentional.. maybe don't allow Chinese ships in the Baltic?
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tossandthrow ◴[] No.42193110[source]
That would not swing.

Denmark controls the waters of the seaway to Sct. Petersburg and Kaliningrad that are some of the strategically most important ports of Russia.

Blocking of traffic to these would be a severe escalation.

Regularly Russian subs pass through Danish waters - controlled and allowed.

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Tade0 ◴[] No.42193133[source]
Damaging infrastructure is already a severe escalation. Should not have done that.
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1. tossandthrow ◴[] No.42193148[source]
These are times to chill - unless we want a full on nuclear war.

(I do realize that in particular US citizens have very high confidence in their own military capacity and might be overly bullish on situations like these)

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2. tallanvor ◴[] No.42193269[source]
Nuclear war is not a realistic concern, luckily. If it was, it would have happened after the first "red line" Russia claimed the west had crossed.
3. tokai ◴[] No.42193310[source]
On the contrary, chilling would endanger everyone living the in the free world even further.
4. Tade0 ◴[] No.42193367[source]
Not American - I'm Polish. I've got friends who got drafted already (if only for training) so it's entirely possible I'll join them eventually.

My take is that Russia's plan is to continue sabotaging and a weak (or lack of) response to that only emboldens them.

Also nuclear war with what? Their recent Satan II ICBM test demonstrated that they don't necessarily have the technical chops to launch anything sufficiently capable and it must have come as a surprise to them as well.

5. p2detar ◴[] No.42197113[source]
We were chill since 2014 if not earlier. It brought nothing but pain both to Ukrainians and to us in the West. It doesn’t work.
6. meindnoch ◴[] No.42197424[source]
It's high time for the West to man up and solve the Russian problem once and for all.