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US F-16 Crashes into Yellow Sea Off South Korea, Yonhap Says (www.bloomberg.com)
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[–] Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml 15 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (1 children)

No, it wouldn’t be great because that means escalation.

The reason the US conducts these flybys is on the slim chance that someone shoots it down.

[–] GarbageShoot@hexbear.net 6 points 11 months ago

Also to make it more able to escalate suddenly by having a "normalized" presence dicking around that can be redirected to violence, right?