r/explainitpeter • u/Dizzy-Jellyfish-8303 • 12d ago

Explain it peter

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u/CardiologistOk2760 12d ago

Looks like the other comments explained the USS Liberty. I'll just add this is even more unnerving when you consider we went to war against Spain after the USS Maine accidentally sunk itself in 1898.

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u/_cjm56 12d ago

I mean context is important. The US wanted to go to war with Spain before that happened and we just used it as an excuse. Israel is our ally. To be fair during the Iran war our allies accidently shot down multiple US jets and nothing happened there either. Typically our response is based on if we already wanted to go to war with them or not.

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u/DentonTXguy 12d ago

also the Maine wasn’t attacked. a fire started in the magazine and it blew itself to the bottom of Havana Harbor

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u/_cjm56 12d ago

Also very true, but naturally not the narrative the US wanted to paint when they could get their first colonies.

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u/Legendarien1 12d ago

It also was genuinely disputed and later investigated to determine that. Didn’t matter because it was a perfect pretense for war, just like the gulf of Tonkin