A US F-16 fighter appears to have crashed into Yellow Sea waters off the coast of South Korea, stoking safety concerns after eight US airmen were killed last month in the crash of an Osprey aircraft near a Japanese island.
  • Ronin_5@lemmygrad.ml
    15·
    1 year ago

    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 [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
      6·
      1 year ago

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