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Because even if true neither country wants to go to war, countries test each other's military responses all the time and it never goes much further than sending
by Wohlf 5y ago
Because even if true neither country wants to go to war, countries test each other's military responses all the time and it never goes much further than sending in jets/ships to watch each other while some diplomatic phone calls take place.
- kcb 5y agoBlowing up a USN warship is not testing, it's action.
- jmnicolas 5y agoYes but it wasn't supposed to be there. Are you going to start WW3 for material damages? Even if the entire sub had been destroyed, would you start WW3 for a few hundred people? No. You take the losses, put a brave face and spin a story about navigation error. Then if you think you weren't in the wrong and they need to get a lesson you destroy something of theirs a while later. Btw, I'm not saying that's what's happened. I'm just hypothesizing that in case it happened like that they wouldn't start WW3 over it.