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[smjjames]

Understandable then. One could imagine an ISIS affiliate loading a ship with explosive.

Especially since it's happened before, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Cole_bombing , the US's policy since has been to warn away small unauthorized boats and kill if they don't move away. I imagine Russia and other navies have taken the same hint as well.

[Morrigi]

Yeah, the Russian ship was at anchor at the time, it's not like they came across one another in the middle of nowhere. It'd be perfectly reasonable for the destroyer's crew to worry about a bombing.

[Zangi]

A fishing boat is pretty cheap to load up, crew, and replace in comparison to a military boat...

[Dorsidwarf]

This was a while ago. I'm pretty sure it turned out to be angry turk fishermen who decided not to play chicken with 150-mm shells after the first warning shot.

I'm more interested in the first european army myself.

[Loud Whispers]

I'm more interested in the first european army myself.

Absolutely haram

[ChairmanPoo]

Spanish president getting punched in the face by some guy

[Loud Whispers]

FOR CATALAN

[smjjames]

Heh, the US Secret Service wouldn't allow the crowd to get that close.

[Helgoland]

How many European heads of state/government have been assassinated in the post-war period anyway? AFAIK there was only Olof Palme...

[smjjames]

How many European heads of state/government have been assasinated in the post-war period anyway? AFAIK there was only Olof Palme...

Which post-war period? WWII or Cold War?

[Helgoland]

WWII, of course. If it was post-Cold War, Olof Palme wouldn't count.

[scriver]

Swedish politician Anna Lindh was murdered while out shopping as well, if that counts. Wasn't really an "assassination" though. Or possibly it was a damned good conspiracy

[Helgoland]

Not a head of state though... But if we include well-known politicians in general, Schäuble might count as well: The reason he's in a wheelchair is that he was attacked by a knife-wielding lunatic back in the nineties.

[smjjames]

There have been a few, looking at wikipedia, Piersanti Mattarella (president of Sicily, but not sure if that counts), Luis Carrero Blanco (Spanish president back in the 70s), Zoran Đinđić (Serbian PM), Chechenya has a bunch. Theres also a bunch which had assassination attempts.

For well known politicians, well, they might be well known in Europe or their home country, but might not be in the US.

[Helgoland]

Sicily is not a nation, no... And I was thinking of modern Western Europe, to be honest

Else we might as well include Mussolini, the Russian Tsar, maybe Stalin...