That free passage through territorial waters can be denied by a country if necessary for its own security.And that is exactly what Iran is doing. Closing the Strait was the only way to stop the US bombing them.
Often officers simply wanted photographs.Other times they invented reasons to start a conversation.
Exercising your power over people, disrupting their day and putting them in a stressful and possibly dangerous situation, just to satisfy your own curiosity, is a dick move.
I support a fleet of 300 Windows laptops plugged into USB-C docking stations, with bluetooth headsets, and all that is connected to a Citrix farm.My job has been pure driver hell for the past year, ever since we were forced to downgrade to Windows 11.And I have no idea how to get out of it.
Rome fell when the Emperor became nothing more than a puppet of powerful warlords, government institutions were corrupted by the rich elite, taxes were spent on grotesque spectacles and bribes instead of infrastructure, and its allies couldn't rely on Rome's protection anymore and turned away.Contributing factors may have been widespread lead poisoning and a changing climate.So nothing like the US...
No one stepped in to stop nazi Germany and Japan from committing genocide.Almost all countries even closed their borders to Jewish refugees.The Soviet Union defended itself when it was attacked (after first invading Poland in cooperation with Germany).China defended itself when it was attacked.The US declared war on Japan when Japan attacked the US. Then Germany declared war on the US.
Humanitarian reasons are used to sell wars to the people fighting them, or turn them into a hero's story afterwards.The people who start them or join them do so for different reasons.
I refused to eat lettuce until I was 16, cause it's leaves and I knew how leaves taste.At some point my mom made me try it and I realized it tastes absolutely awesome due to my mom's salad dressing.
Basically, yes.US leaders still pretend technological superiority is the same as military capability.While every country opposed to the US has learnt by now that you can usually just wait them out, even if it might take a long time.
That free passage through territorial waters can be denied by a country if necessary for its own security.And that is exactly what Iran is doing. Closing the Strait was the only way to stop the US bombing them.