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YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldBanned to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago

US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waters

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US destroyer shoots down drone flying toward it in the Red Sea, defending itself in uneasy waters

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YoBuckStopsHere@lemmy.worldBanned to News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year ago
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A US official said the drone that was eliminated on Thursday by USS Thomas Hudner originated in Yemen.
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    Suuure… Just like those boats in the Tonkin bay leading to the Vietnam war

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      This won’t mean anything more than possible additional support for Ukraine, which the Biden administration (and the majority of Americans) want anyway.

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      The Vietnam War started long before that.

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        The French-Vietnamese part of the war did. The justification for heavy American involvement was the Gulf of Tonkin false flag.

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          That was when the war went public, but the US was pretty involved prior to it.

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            Okay, but not with massive amounts of troops on the ground doing frontline fighting. The justification for that came from Tonkin.

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              That was the public war, yes.

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                If you have a source for there being a large-scale frontline american involvement, or anything beyond advisors or the air force before Tonkin, then I’m all ears.

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                  There wasn’t a large scale, it was just secret operations.

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                    Okay… but that’s not the start of the American Vietnam War. That was America covertly aiding the French in their war.

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