Tempting I'm sure, but they would be sitting ducks in the water after ejecting. Not something the pilots would consider worth risking.

Because our political classes are corporate-whore sociopaths, who possess zero leadership value beyond public speaking and rubber stamping the will of a borderless, lawless, criminally-corrupt oligarchy.

Because warships — and bear with me now because this is quite the jargon — have weapons.

Laser is not radar.

High powered lasers don't even have to hit the pilots in the eyes to do damage as they bounce off any reflective or semi-reflective surfaces in the cabin or windows and still enter the eyes with high enough energy to cause effect. Military lasers can be powerful enough that a very short burst does permanent damage to the retina even from hundreds of metres away. Laser weapons should be in the same category as mustard and sarin gas - a warcrime, but instead.. all major powers are developing them.

Laser - pilots look down at the ship I guess.

The Thames is the cleanest river in the world that goes through a metropolis. Brown is its natural healthy silty colour.

Hmm. I know a few pig farmers that has plenty of waste to get rid of. They normally sell it off as fertilizer, but, eh, I'm sure we can persuade them to donate for the cause.

sucks to be whatever schmuck has to clean out the hold, though.

Regular military flyovers of Taiwan airspace, regular "missile tests" that land near them in their waters or fly over their airspace.. Constant "coastguard" vessels travelling down to ram, bully and occasionally shoot at literally all of their southern neighbors (Philippines, Taiwan, Indonesia, Vietnam, etc)... an unannounced Navy exercise recently with a three-ship grouping that went all the way down to Australian and NZ waters (economic zone) and then performed live fire activities with no warning to anyone in the area.

These are just the recent aggressive trolling cunt behaviours I recall of the top of my head.

Trolls took over. Not the mouthy idiots but the big gnarled ones from under bridges. They smell really bad. Neighbouring countries are complaining.

One theory is putin is desperate to bait a nato attack he can spin as nato entering the ukraine war so he can retreat (or maybe escalate) while saving face.

Im not entirely convinced but its a solid enough theory

I feel like if China is gonna get involved it'll be to invade Siberia for the significant amount of oil resource that is available

I’m pretty sure it’s just a bunch of guys each awkwardly holding like 40 of those green laser pointers off AliExpress. They all wave them around vaguely in the direction of the aircraft and figure one of them is gonna hit.

Perhaps mounting a laser and a scope on a stick could improve accuracy. Also never done it and I assume those jets fly rather fast, but if you can estimate the flight path, oncoming planes should be an easy target