That’s a different scenario. That was over Syrian/Turkish airspace and Russia likely knew they don’t have a leg to stand on there considering the close vicinity of the border and conflicting reports over the bomber’s flight path. Not to mention that Turkey is a lot closer to Russia than the average NATO state.

I don’t think it could escalate to a full war, but shooting down aircraft in intl. airspace is much more serious than a bomber that has strayed into your national airspace.

Loads of countries have been doing shit like this for years. Turkish planes do it to the Greeks, US/UK do it to Lebanon and Palestine, China does it to Taiwan, The US does it to China, India and Pakistan probably do it too.

Not that it’s a good thing, but they’re just testing the detection and interception of NATO. Russia uses standoff weapons which it can deploy from its own airspace, so they don’t have much use flying beyond their borders unless it’s to cause annoyance to neighbouring air patrols.

Not worth the panicked headlines over.

Yeah shooting down an aircraft over international waters would probably be a major incident actually.

They flew over international waters in the Baltic sea. almost as far away from the US as you can get. No need to get a war boner going.

the 2006 war was pretty much like that. Israel declared the state of Lebanon responsible for the actions of Hezbollah (which is independent of the Lebanese govt. bare a few associated MPs) then proceeded to bomb the shit out of Beirut.

The policy Israel has employed on Lebanon has always been to try and sow division between the Lebanese govt and Hezbollah to provoke a civil war.

What a malicious headline, when most if not all of the targets yesterday were civilians. Israel simply employed their doctrine of telling civilians to leave at short notice, then declaring anyone who stays a military target.

Yup. You usually only see combat reports from them when they return from the field because they simply don’t use field comms.

They do use tech too, though as far as I know Comms are explicitly low tech.

I much prefer our modern package format solutions:

1. sudo apt install something
2. open
3. wtf this is like 6 months old
4. find a PPA hosted by someone claiming to have packaged the new version
5. search how to install PPAs
6. sudo apt <I forgot>
7. install app finally
8. wtf it’s 2 months old and full of bugs
9. repo tells me to report to original developer
10. report bugs
11. mfw original dev breaks my kneecaps for reporting a bug in out of date versions packed with weird dependency constraints they can’t recreate

We had to convince my brother in law (13yo) to not spend his birthday money of £85 on Genshin impact skins. Kids are fucked by advertising man

The same relationship of the cost of high virulence hurting the fitness of a pathogen may not apply if hosts are kept in proximity that a fast death doesn’t necessarily mean the pathogen cannot find a new host.

It may have been how the 1918 flu pandemic was so deadly yet still successful at spreading to new hosts; being spread amongst soldiers in trenches and infirmaries and troop ships compared.

Plus, there are evolutionary pressures on pathogens to become more virulent; using less resources by the host only leads to being outcompeted by more virulent pathogens. While mortality is a limiting factor, there is a temporary benefit to strategies that select for virulence until that limit is reached.