This Agency Nation Of War (Lobster War)

This is far from the entirely example of Canadian aggression, view equally good later on the jump.

From the WaPo via Keene New Hampshire's Keene Sentinel, August 12:

OTTAWA — Canadians oftentimes boast that their 5,525-mile boundary amongst the USA is the longest undefended edge inwards the world. But tempers receive got frayed on at to the lowest degree 1 modest stretch.

Machias Seal Island is a 20-acre, treeless isle teeming amongst puffins, razorbills, terns, eiders in addition to other seabirds, making it a mecca for birdwatchers. Both Canada in addition to the USA claim sovereignty over the island, which is most 10 miles off the shore of Maine, in addition to the surrounding 277-square-mile Gray Zone, where fishermen from both countries compete over valuable lobster grounds.
In belatedly June in addition to early on July, Canadian fishermen said, U.S. Border Patrol agents inwards high-speed boats intercepted Canadian lobster boats inwards the Gray Zone.

“I receive got no view where they came from,” said Laurence Cook, a lobsterman in addition to representative of the Fishermen’s Association from nearby Grand Manan Island. “We’ve never seen U.S. Border Patrol inwards the Gray Zone before.”

Cook said at to the lowest degree 10 Canadian boats were stopped in addition to interrogated most whether they were carrying drugs in addition to illegal immigrants.

The incident comes at a depression indicate inwards U.S.-Canada relations. The USA inwards May slapped tariffs on imports of Canadian steel in addition to aluminum, prompting retaliation from Canada on the same metals in addition to a hit of other U.S. exports. President Donald Trump has lashed out at Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, calling him “dishonest in addition to weak.”

The 2 countries are equally good inwards the midst of tense negotiations over NAFTA, the North American understanding Trump has called “the worst merchandise bargain always made.”

Canada’s Foreign Ministry said inwards a tilt it is investigating the incidents that it said “occurred inwards Canadian waters.”

“Canada’s sovereignty over Machias Seal Island in addition to the surrounding waters is long-standing in addition to has a rigid foundation inwards international law,” the tilt said....MUCH MORE

Canada is equally good waging state of war over some other island, this fourth dimension against the Danes.
From Your Fact Boy:

Ever heard of Hans Island? Unless you lot are an overzealous Scandinavian legal scholar, chances are you lot haven’t. In short, It is a disputed rock.(or Island, telephone outcry upward it what you lot will)

Within the Nares Strait (Between Greenland in addition to Ellesmere) is half-a-square mile slice of stone called Hans Island, notable for absolutely nothing. No 1 lives at that topographic point in addition to patch the area, generally, was in 1 lawsuit an Inuit hunting ground, at that topographic point is fiddling show that Hans Island itself is anything to a greater extent than than a dry out residue halt across the Strait. To telephone outcry upward Hans Island non-notable would, perhaps, hold out an understatement.

Nevertheless, Hans Island’s legal condition is ‘disputed ‘: it is bailiwick to conflicting claims, 1 past times Kingdom of Denmark in addition to some other past times Canada.

Which, of course, requires a colossally lightheaded “war” which deserves to instruct downwards inwards history equally either the most creative role of cross-border understanding to exercise a living satire out of territorial disputes or equally the most humorous conflict of all time. But in addition to thus in 1 lawsuit again these are Danes in addition to Canadians nosotros are talking about.

But first, lets receive got some background. After all, nosotros can’t written report a ‘conflict’ without understanding the ‘severe’ political grievances behind it. It all began inwards 1973 when Kingdom of Denmark in addition to Canada endeavored to map out the continental shelf dividing Greenland in addition to Ellesmere. They ended upward amongst the map, below, equally a result, which placed Hans Island collinear amongst the points creating the boundary:

So why exercise you lot deserve to know most this conflict over a slice of stone ? Well, because of ‘how’ the conflict has turned out.
War ships from both sides patrol the area, in addition to when they run into each other they…wait-for-it…show their flags.
When the soldiers piece of employment out the ships they…wait-for-it…take the other side’s flag downwards in addition to heighten their own.

If this sounds terribly ho-hum in addition to thus read on. As successive Danish in addition to Canadian landings on the isle erect in addition to dismantle flag poles in addition to markers, they piece of employment out Bottles of Whiskey for the side past times side contingent. This ‘whiskey war’ was initiated inwards 1984, when the Danish government minister for Greenland landed on the isle leaving a bottle of schnapps in addition to a sign proclaiming “Welcome to the Danish Island.”

Peter Takso Jensen, caput of international constabulary region of the Danish Foreign Ministry, noted that

“When Danish military machine instruct there, they piece of employment out a bottle of schnapps. So when Canadian military machine forces come upward there, they piece of employment out a bottle of Canadian Club in addition to a sign proverb ‘Welcome to Canada’”

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