Right?! Could you imagine if some country attacked one of our naval ships and we didn’t do anything about it?
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Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months agoI mean sure maybe the August 4th incident was overblown but the August 2nd 1964 incident did happen where our ship was attacked by Vietnam torpedo boats. Maybe you get attacked and don’t do shit at all about it who is the real clown there?
ShepherdPie@midwest.social 2 months ago
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Hold on, I need my popcorn for this!
Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
The 6 day Israel-Arab war. A casualty was encourred and Israel pleaded it was an accidental casualty of war. They made concessions.
The gulf of tonkin. Not a casualty but a calculated attack.
Maggoty@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Yep complete accident. Have you read any of the reports? The ship was broadcasting it’s nationality in every way possible. The only way it was a mistake was if the Israelis turned off all of their communications and fired with their eyes closed.
prole@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Ohhhh got it, only one false flag attack was committed by the US. That means the war in Vietnam was justified.
To be clear regarding “false flag” operations: this entails attacking our own military in order to provide spurious cassus belli to enter a conflict we had no valid reason to enter. In this case, a civil war on the other side of the planet, in a bay we should never have been in to begin with
Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Vietnam torpedo boats attacked our ship on August 2 1964. Deny that fact as much as you want. Our ship was in international waters when attacked. There were multiple justifications to get in that war I don’t really care to get into them. Tldr: We help our allies and protect democracy in the region.
pop@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
LMAO. Your military protects interests of the billionaires and their economy. It has fuck all to do about democracy.
But keep guzzling whatever you already are, those braincells aren’t going to repeat propaganda by itself.
Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
South Vietnam allied. Democracy in the region couldn’t fall because it creates a domino effect where democracy looks week.
Wtf are you talking about billionaires. Our military protects the interests of all our allies especially European and Asian.
prole@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
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Snowflake@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
You use re-vanced lmfao. Fuck outta here brokie. Just a sad propagandized loser who despises their own country.