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Re:F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war by smcin on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @04:38AM (#47846203)
Wouldn't that be the war crime of perfidy, similar to when the US used a secret plane painted as a civilian aircraft to sink one of the Venezuelan boats 9/2025?
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Re:F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war by rasz on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @08:26AM (#47847818)
Like that tens of times unaffiliated cargo ships dragged anchor for tens of kilometers to dredge fiberoptic cables in the Baltic.
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Re:F-35 is a masterpiece built for the wrong war by Nasrudith on Tuesday April 21, 2026 @09:43PM (#47857663)
Warships are explicitly allowed to use false flags at sea, provided they lower them and raise their true flag before launching an attack. So all that would change to be legal would be to raise the flag and then unleash the drone swarms.

I'm not quite sure if just putting up a military flag on a civilian transport ship makes it count as a warship or not though.

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