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Thursday, November 14, 2024

Russia Sabotages US Commercial Planes

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Russia has recently attacked US air assets and people ostensibly in retaliation for US support for Ukraine.
Historically clandestine actions like this have led to war!
Unlikely Biden will do anything in response.
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Russia behind plot to plant bombs on cargo planes, Western official says
Russia was responsible for sending two incendiary devices to DHL logistics hubs in Germany and the United Kingdom in July as part of a wider sabotage campaign to possibly start fires aboard aircraft bound for North America, a Western security official told NBC News.

The Wall Street Journal first reported on the suspected plot.
Polish authorities have arrested four people and are searching for two more in connection with the case, according to government officials and Polish media.
German and British authorities have said they were investigating suspected Russian sabotage in two incidents in July. A package en route to an aircraft exploded at a DHL logistics center in Leipzig before a scheduled flight. Also in July, a package burst into flames at a DHL center in Birmingham, England.
The packages included electric massagers that contained a magnesium-based flammable substance, the Western official said.
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Historic Examples of similar attacks that led directly to WAR:
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The British-owned steamship Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk by a German U-boat on May 7, 1915, killing 1,195 people, including 128 Americans:
The sinking turned public opinion in many countries against Germany. It also contributed to the American entry into the War two years later;
Sinking of the RMS Lusitania - Wikipedia
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On February 15, 1898, an explosion of unknown origin sank the battleship U.S.S. Maine in the Havana, Cuba harbor, killing 266 of the 354 crew members. The sinking of the Maine incited United States' passions against Spain, eventually leading to a naval blockade of Cuba and a declaration of war.
USS Maine (1889) - Simple English Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia-
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The Gulf of Tonkin incident was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
The Gulf of Tonkin incident (Vietnamese: Sự kiện Vịnh Bắc Bộ) was an international confrontation that led to the United States engaging more directly in the Vietnam War.
Gulf of Tonkin incident - Wikipedia
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Gaddafi ordered Lockerbie bombing – ex-minister | Lockerbie plane bombing | The Guardian
Recently resigned justice minister tells Swedish paper Libyan leader was personally responsible for downing of Pan Am 103
Gaddafi and his regime have been directly tied to international terrorism on many occasions over four decades. Abdullah Senussi, still his trusted enforcer, was convicted in absentia in France in 1999 for his role in the 1989 bombing of a UTA passenger plane over Niger which killed 170 people.
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