A Chinese coastguard ship came dangerously close to a Philippine patrol ship in the South China Sea, sparking fears of a territorial dispute in the contested waters.
The Chinese ship manoeuvred and came within 4 metres of the patrol ship near the Second Thomas Shoal. One other Philippine coastguard vessel was blocked and surrounded by the Chinese coastguard and militia ships.
The altercation had dragged on for about eight hours on Wednesday after China formed a blockade in the high seas off the shoal that both nations have laid claim to.
Two supply boats being escorted by the Philippine coastguard had breached the Chinese blockade and delivered food and other supplies to a Filipino marine outpost at the shoal.
Remember before the pandemic how WWIII was trending and since then we’ve seen the Russia Ukraine war, this refreshed israel/Palestine conflict, and the raising maritime tensions in south China seas.
I think we’re back on track!
Meh.
Russia has been attacking or invading someone pretty constantly for the last 30 years.
And the Israel/Palestine conflict has waxed and waned since the intifada kicked off in the late 80s.
And china has been threatening the countries bordering the south china sea since Mao was in charge.
And everyone has been predicting WW3 since the blockade of West Berlin in 1948.
All I see in the same amount of tragic conflict that has been going on since, well forever.
If you genuinely think the current Russian war is anything like what they’ve been up to for the last 20 years…
If you think the current situation at the Gaza strip is business as usual
If you think the current standoff in the south China sea isn’t raising tension…
Remind us all never to elect you to any position of power.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine started in 2014, this Hamas attack is a bad one but nothing new, and china having territorial disputes in the South China Sea is most certainly par for the course.
Humans suck and none of this is really out of the ordinary. russia had been committing genocide in Syria and it just didn’t get the attention Ukraine is.
This is all normal shitty human behavior that occurs all around the world every year.
Did the Russia Ukraine situation start with the annexation of crimea in 2014, sure.
That wasn’t a war. That was an invasion and an annexation. This is now a war. It has fundamentally changes. Ask literally any Russian. Or Ukrainian.
Yes, humans do suck, but to pretend like things haven’t gotten worse opens the door for that spiral to continue.
Things have gotten much worse, and it is not business as usual.
It was more than annexation. russia committed terrorist attacks, including downing MH17. They had a lot of actual conflict in Donbas, Luhansk, and the Eastern portion of Ukraine. [1]
And again, even if you want to unjustifiably exclude the russian conflict in Ukraine beginning in 2014, how is that different than what was happening in Syria?
In Syria, russia was using chemical weapons to force civilians hiding in rubble out into the street, where they would execute them. [2]
What you’re guilty of is declinism, whether you want to believe it or not.
One could argue russia committed worse atrocities in Syria than they have been in Ukraine. But that coverage wasn’t as popular in the media.
What you’re doing is making assumptions based on your subjective perspective, not a factual representation of the world. Your view is very common, but not representative of reality. [3]
Yay!!!
Not.