• HappycamperNZ@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Lusitania, Athena, hospital ships and a shitload of merchant vessels operating in the exclusion zone around UK prior to America’s entry

      • Burn_The_Right@lemmy.world
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        Ukraine doesn’t have an errant nautical mine problem. This mine is a Russian attack on merchant vessels. If Russia can’t control the waters overtly, they will try to make it an exclusion zone, which is going to piss off a lot of other countries.