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Old 11-10-10, 09:54 PM   #3
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Originally Posted by the_tyrant View Post
If we ignore sovereignty over the island, the whole thins was simply a traffic accident
haha, "accident". I think the video rather suggests the opposite.

Fishing boats also don't really have authority to "defend the motherland" anywhere. Even given the extremely disputed nature of the territory involved, the moment they started ramming they ceased to function as a fishing boat and became, for all purposes, a belligerent vessel posing as one. And that is a major provocation.
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