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Is it though? It was civilian infrastructure in international waters, and no formal war has been declared by either side.
by Cthulhu_ 2y ago
Is it though? It was civilian infrastructure in international waters, and no formal war has been declared by either side.
- The_Colonel 2y agoWars don't have to be declared to be wars. Most wars have historically not been declared.
- guappa 2y agoSource of this completely made up claim?
- The_Colonel 2y agohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_war > Since 1945, developments in international law such as the United Nations Charter, which prohibits both the threat and the use of force in international conflicts, have made declarations of war largely obsolete in international relations > Declarations of war have been exceedingly rare since the end of World War II. > In his study Hostilities without Declaration of War (1883), the British scholar John Frederick Maurice showed that between 1700 and 1870 war was declared in only 10 cases, while in another 107 cases war was waged without such declaration Most of these statements have source references. While this doesn't cover the whole history, you are welcome to bring up sources contradicting my statement.
- impossiblefork 2y agoI thought it through, and it's actually dubious. I think the problem might be proportionality-- the reasoning would go something like: they could have told the Germans not to let the gas through, and that would have achieved the same effect without violence/destroying civilian infrastructure, so the attack wasn't permitted, or they achieved only a mild military advantage, since the gas could be exported through Azerbaijan, Georgia and Ukraine itself, so it wasn't permitted, and the more I think about it the more I think it actually wasn't.