No, it compares all to that silly walk ceremony at the Pakistani-Indian border cropssing of Wagah. Hilarious. Military history is full of examples where fighters turned into peacocks and then into lame ducks when civilizational development and new technology overtook their old ways of armouring and arming themselves and trying to fight in old ways. The dvelopment of body armour of medieval knights that got overrolled by the new age, is a good exmaple. Asia and Europe alike.
I do not find it either entertaining, nor military-style. Just ridiculous. And I do not mean the Wagah ceremony only, but this standoff at sea as well. Simply ridiculous, and unwanted. Testosterone pumping up chests and ironing faces.
As I said: if being in command, I would ruin both captains' days. Both behaved stupid, and irresponsibly. If repeating such foolish behaviour, they would be soon on their way out of my navy.
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