Well, there is a practical purpose to it. When you've got one country invading and annexing another county's territory, other nations can either accept it or refute it. If the Chinese claim the entirely of the South China Sea, or France claims all of the English Channel, or Australia claims the Baltic... do you avoid those waters? Or do you go sailing on through?
Good thing the UK has no record of invading and occupying other nations along with its daddy in the past few decades!
Politics is practically in the title of the thread.
the subject could go on just talking about the destroyer, aircrafts or missiles being launched, Russian navy attacking next time as a possibility, etc, not about what Crimea, Constantinople, Jerusalem, kosovo belong to, or talking about political assassinations, might as well go to places like 4chan /pol/ or something for that.
I don't think this is really a comparison when one claims I am in international waters or denying the incident ever occurred and the other says your in my territory. If that vessel is in international waters but becomes threatened that is retaliation, but if that Vessel is around Somalian territory and their warning is not taken I guess they will fight back but based on their capabilities not achieve much. I am confused if this situation is even comparable to what is happening above?
A recent article on Iranian use of spoofing, for a variety of reasons:
Not really. Khruschev randomly gave Ukraine Crimea- certainly Russia nor the Russian local population had any say in it.
So in territorial waters? Rather if Crimea is recognized as Ukraine or Russia, they are free to come again if they want I suppose, I do not know what they tried to prove with this course of action now than not before. I do not know why the UK denied the incident ever occurred when their reporter was on board and even footage of their officer talking to the Russians directly stating Crimean waters as Ukrainian territory, problem is where are the Ukrainians or their military in Crimea? If they do perhaps pull the stunt again and their ship sinks i don't really think NATO will support their jackass endeavor to fight for them like Turkey thinks NATO will back them if they got into a conflict with the Russians in Syria
Well the Palestinians might object to this but its all a matter of opinion now is it? NATO can state Crimea is Ukraine and Russia can state Crimea is Russia buts that's all there is. Wonder how they can cease a sub send salvos of scramjets at them or do they fire warning shots as their 1st protocol like what the Russian coast guard did?
