If that was true. We would have declared war in Britain for causing the death of Americans
Largely because of what is essentially a fucking coverup from what I understand (while a significant portion of the US populous was Pro-Germany, a good portion of the economic leaders were pro-British). Germany literally posted a warning in the papers that their intelligence services had viable information that the Lusitania was illegally carrying war goods and would be a target and advised all Americans to not go on that ship.But you didn't, you declared war after Germans committed a diplomatic idiocy of the century (and as you can imagine that's against some very stiff competition).
The Germans made that one, they admitted it during the inept handling of the fallout.I wouldn't be surprised that, years from now, we discover that Britain made the Zimmerman Telegram, not Germany. Largely because the British leadership was willing to go that low.
Given everyone simply screwed anyone that went with the 'Lusitania wasn't carrying illegal war cargo' fact was decried as conspiracy theorists until the British Admiralty went 'yep, the Lusitania was carrying illegal war cargo' a few years back...The Germans made that one, they admitted it during the inept handling of the fallout.
Is not illegal, just turn it on a valid military target.To be fair the Lusitania carrying war cargo wasn't illegal it was just really shady
From what I understand, there were restrictions on carrying war cargo in ships like the Lusitania... but I'm not exactly up to date on the exact literature.To be fair the Lusitania carrying war cargo wasn't illegal it was just really shady
If I remember right, he was given a list of RMS vessels that he was free to target without consequence... but that was from an article that I don't have the link to as I read it ages ago.Kind of immaterial if the U-boat captain didn't know about it, though. Were his reasons ever given beyond it just being a British ship?
Starting at around 8:00AM Captain Turner ordered the Lusitania slowed to 18kts due to fog. Sometime before 10:00AM she slowed to 15kts and the foghorn was sounded....can we get a source about the Lusitania slowing and blasting it's fog horn.
I buy it carrying war material covertly, partly as a Brit ploy to get us into the war.
But slowing when you know a sub is around, when you are without escorts, and blasting the fog horn is a whole other level of conspiratorial actions.
From what I understand, not really. The US at the time was very anti-British, at least with the general populous... the British targeted wasn't the general populous but the various elites, specifically the economic ones.the Brits had also been running a very intense PR campaign in America, against the Germans from 1890 to 1910.
By the time of the Lusitania, American public opinion of Germany was firmly in Britian's pocket.
Anti-German sentiment - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
Not really a story.... more of a forty second video really...
He was apparently successful because they had to call 911 for help after taking casualties.A ninja with a sword assailed a U.S. Army special operations unit in California
A man "wearing full ninja garb" staged the attack in the middle of the night at a small airport in California, officials say.www.npr.org
A ninja tried to get the jump on special forces.
It was the 160th. Pilots basicallyHe was apparently successful because they had to call 911 for help after taking casualties.
I'm not sure what that says about the audacity of determined nutcases or the quality of US military special forces.
That's how I noticed it was 160th.It's kind of a dumb take anyways. If you actually read the story he attacked one dude outside the hangar with a sword so they locked in a hangar and the guy apparently threw a rock through a window and another person waa injured.
But apparently the injuries were so minor they're back on duty.
But apparently to some the ideal action is to charge out and rush a guy whose on drugs or mentally ill and engage in mindless vigilantism instead of having the police handle the situation.