Insidiously Legal

In a fiendish follow-up to their treacherous tricks with aggressive balloons, the Heathen Chinee have deployed four military vessels off the coast of Alaska; which, given the state's close proximity to both Ukraine and plucky little Taiwan, can only be considered a provocation. The fact that all four vessels kept to international waters and "operated within the bounds of international rules and norms" merely serves to show up the subtlety of the perilous menace. More fiendishly still, the incident follows a similar threat last August, in which Chinese and Russian warships manoevred near the Alaskan coast in a highly provocative manner not at all resembling NATO's encirclements and encroachments upon countries with no legitimate security concerns.