The Roads to touching our boats and foreign policy....

[@satalia]

I love when Habitual Linecrosser says “Don’t touch their boats!”

[@oldworldpatriot8920]

Or Japan goes “Ohh no we warned you guys about that.”

[@emom358]

I'm going to Hell for laughing at his skits

[@tiptoeurchin]

He's funny, also mandatory funday. I don't follow much military content so I didn't know this was that prevalent or how many American conflicts started due to boats.

[@aland7236]

​@@emom358 Save a seat for me!

[@Thor_Odinson]

Cuz then Uncle Buff will pay you a visit

[@DahVoozel]

So, what I am hearing is that the US Navy anthem needs to be, "Don't Touch Our Boats"

[@almitrahopkins1873]

The motto is already Semper Paratus, so we’ll be keeping Anchors Aweigh as the anthem.

[@christopherapel1712]

That is the coast guard motto , not the navy's .

[@w4iph]

Touch the boat, don't touch the boat baby. Touch the boat. Don't dip the boat over

[@micwclar]

​@@w4iphwell played, well played. Now if only the Village People had recorded it...

[@almitrahopkins1873]

@@christopherapel1712 It’s both, actually. The Coast Guard just uses it more prominently, like the Marine Corps, with their Semper Fidelis. The Navy tends to use the English translation of Ever Ready.

[@TerLoki]

One incident that I will always find hilarious is, during the War of 1812, one of the original six frigates (I think Constellation?) was being chased by a British ship. An American cargo ship came into view over the course of the chase and the British, out of cannon range but still determined to get the frigate, decided to be sneaky and put up an American ensign to make it look like both warships were friendly. The frigate, seeing this and not wanting the poor merchant vessel to get touched, immediately took down her American ensign and hoisted a British one. So an American ship flying British colors chased off an American ship, so that they wouldn't be sunk or boarded by a British ship flying American colors. History can be wild, man.

[@GrumpyOldFart2]

That’s so awesome!😂

[@jpage6875]

Other important thing with the Lusitania was that there were Rich People On Board, too. That had an impact as it wasn't 'the unwashed masses' getting dead, but the more affluent could be touched too.

[@margaretnicol3423]

C'mon Beau! You know it was George Washington's fighter jets that made the difference. That's why he took over the airports in 1781.

[@Erin-Thor]

Yes! And it was George Santos who helped design them! 🤪

[@BiggestBigBoy]

Yup, and he rode a 2009 Hellcat.

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@BiggestBigBoy Cleverly designed to look like a horse!

[@jollyjackass]

I thought it was the civil war that we first took the airfields?

[@kylebechtol8367]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@LaundryFaerie]

As someone who lives near a Navy shipyard... yeah, don't touch them boats

[@peterhobson3262]

As someone who spent 20 years in the US Navy, yeah, don't touch our boats. (I was a submariner, I actually was in boats.)

[@Crit.Happens]

@@peterhobson3262 Don't touch the ships, and absolutely don't touch the boats.

[@TheGiggleMasterP]

Listen to other countries when they tell you "DO NOT TOUCH THEIR BOATS"

[@rachellott640]

That makes the kidnapping scene in Finding Nemo more amusing. “Don’t. Touch. The boat.”

[@Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

I always thought everyone already understood the "joke" behind the Finding Nemo scene .... which doubles with the joke "probably American" for who's doing the kidnapping ....

[@paulblaauw]

This puts "the US Navy is the second-largest Air Force" in a whole new light.

[@johnsteiner3417]

"And though we be on the far side of the world this ship is our home. This ship is England." ~Russel Crowe, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World

[@chrisball3778]

The film is adapted from several Patrick O'Brien novels, but the majority of the plot is actually taken from The Far Side of the World, which is set during the War of 1812. In the book, the antagonist ship is American, but they changed the setting to ten years earlier and made it French, because the producers thought US audiences wouldn't watch it if the Americans were the 'bad guys'. I.e. they had to re-write the story so they didn't touch America's boats.

[@gdbalck]

Technically Capt. Jack Aubrey but yes. In every sense.

[@johnsteiner3417]

@@chrisball3778 Yeah, I knew about that. Tells me they hadn't seen our Vietnam [conflict] era movies. Though, the Akron in the movie is still an American hull design. Two layers of hard white oak and one soft white oak layer in between all into a shallow draft.

[@chrisball3778]

@@johnsteiner3417 Cool. I didn't know about that ship design detail. It's a great movie, even though I like the books more.

[@johnsteiner3417]

@@chrisball3778 They made the plot switch into an interesting add-on when one of Lucky Jack's crew reports seeing it in port and replicates the hull in miniature.

[@dallastaylor5479]

We are supremely triggered when our boats are touched. Touch my boat, you have war.

[@oldworldpatriot8920]

Mess with the special branch you get the whole tree

[@jessecarozza8134]

Sounds like a bunch of Kantai Collection fans.

[@sukhvindermangat1087]

Seems normal for an Imperialist Nation!

[@Doing_It_Wrong]

One time we go so mad about boat touching we painted a bunch of our boats white and sailed them around the world to threaten everyone not to touch our boats.

[@xpropriation8505]

The US really has been a petty bitch foreign policy wise 😂 Literally pulled the “I fuckin dare you” card lmao

[@squidbillyradio]

Ah yes, Teddy Roosevelt's Great White Fleet

[@TerLoki]

Hell, no matter how you look at it, our VERY FIRST WAR post-independence was because people touched our damn boats! The only question is whether it was against the French or the Barbary states.

[@KOKO-uu7yd]

​@@TerLokiJust learned about that one recently, from The Fat Electrician 😂

[@HJ-pm2dx]

It was so intimidating Puccini referred to it in one of his operas.

[@JessButNotThatOne]

You don't need to understand it, you need to not touch our boats

[@yzenynot]

Gunboat diplomacy leads to air superiority leads to Space Force. Teddy Roosevelt would approve.

[@parkerbrown-nesbit1747]

Speak softly and carry a big oar?

[@MiracleFound]

That's why they call them spaceships!

[@DEEKWD-cd2zb]

⁠​⁠@@MiracleFoundhahaha, don’t touch our space boats

[@gmw3083]

Murica has been finessing its way into conflicts for centuries. It used to come out the victor. Those days are gone. Only the conflicts and the addiction to them remain.

[@gmw3083]

Murica has been finessing its way into conflicts for centuries. It used to come out the victor. Those days are gone.

[@shawn_369]

USS liberty enters the room 😬

[@migs7220]

Boink. Boom. $$$

[@TheVid54]

If you call my ship a boat one more time, you're overboard!

[@vmccall399]

The person who asked that question never had a fishing boat.

[@earthsystem]

So true, on the bonny blue, my boat is my life support system.

[@matthewalbers2906]

Or a BBQ grill

[@Reason..or..treason-vk6cz]

Most people have never had a fishing boat😊

[@aazhie]

The only thing I know about fishing boats is the saying: there are two best days of having a boat: buying it, and selling it

[@stevenflebbe]

Thank you for the history lesson, Beau. I learned these things in school in the 60s, but I don’t believe they teach history in this depth anymore. We can’t keep moving forward if we don't know where we've been.

[@erinmac4750]

Truth! I consider myself fairly knowledgeable in history, but there were a couple of these that got me. Time to hit the books, again. ✌️😎🍀

[@bjdefilippo447]

What I noticed in my history classes was the focus on facts, rather than context. That made it harder to see the connections and evaluate possible motivations for the things we had to memorize. Beau's style is much more effective.

[@stevenflebbe]

@bjdefilippo447 I've always considered myself fortunate to have teachers who not only gave us some of the context but encouraged us to do further research on our own.

[@erinmac4750]

@@stevenflebbe True. Though I have to admit, sometimes it just leads you to more. ✌️😎🍀

[@bjdefilippo447]

@@stevenflebbe Absolutely. I would always be thankful for many wonderful teachers that shaped me. Without them, I'm sure I wouldn't have insisted on a job where I could teach as well as conducting a research program. I was team teaching in an experimental project where students took a core of 2 or 3 classes together, with interconnected materials and end products. It made me wish I'd taken a much wider array of courses in college, so I could've understood concepts more deeply. Beau helps with that.

[@daiakunin]

As others have pointed out, the USS Liberty incident seems to be the exception to this rule.

[@dinkaboutit4228]

This is actually not an American idea. Causing damage to a state ship (USS, HMS etc.) has been considered legitimate causus belli under international law since international law was invented in the 17th century. It's an extension of the idea that the deck of a man'o'war is the sovereign territory of the nation whose flag it sails under, no matter where in the world the ship happens to be. Just like an embassy but with bigger guns. We got it from the British, and it was the cornerstone of the "gunboat diplomacy" that built the British empire.

[@shawnr771]

I think it goes back much farther than that. The Persians were really good sailors.

[@dinkaboutit4228]

@@shawnr771 The Phoenicians were very good sailors. The Persians, and specifically the Medes, who were the Persians we call the Persians, were central Asian horse soldiers. The "Persian" fleet at Salamis, for instance, was actually made up of Ionian Greeks.

[@shawnr771]

@@dinkaboutit4228 thank you.

[@susanbradleyskov9179]

That was a fantastic lesson in political history, from way before anybody was sure there were any large land masses across the sea.

[@jmacd8817]

While the US epitomizes this, any country with a blue water navy is the same. Reference the Chinese and the Red Sea, currently. Yes, it's about power. It's the same for any country that had the power to respond.

[@Sally4th_]

The UK ditto. The last capital offense on the books here, only repealed in 1971 with the enactment of the Criminal Damage Act, was Arson in the Royal Dockyards. Do not touch the boats.

[@TheGreatSkrob]

Love seeing references to mandatoryFunday getting some Love here! 😂

[@ar4122]

Its also like an island...a floating representation of a country, not an object you can just step off of.

[@shawnr771]

At sea US ships fly a US flag. In port they switch to only the Union(field of stars) so as not to fly a US flag higher than that of a host nation.

[@Hjorth87]

For the history buffs, look into the Danish>

[@Jeff-q4u]

Sorry and everything 😔 But you all better now 🙂 [p.s we miss you 🤫]

[@natron1973]

Except the USS liberty in 1967 when the Israelis killed 34 Americans… they apologized for the “accident” and paid restitution totaling around $10 million in 1980 or about $50 million today… there’s some question into whether or not it was an “accident”

[@laurajarrell6187]

Beau, must be why it's called 'mighty ship of state' ! I kind of knew this, but never thought about it. Carriers move troops, too. We can now move a lot of 'war' fast. That was Romes' advantage too, I bet. In a more 'primitive way.' Thankyou. A different, but fun 'Road'!👍💙💙💙🥰✌

[@brendaross9732]

DON'T TOUCH THE BOOOAAAATS!

[@darwinskeeper421]

As a former small boat sailor, I support this meme.

[@vettnetkramer1233]

Same here.

[@kylebechtol8367]

The fat electrician does a good couple videos and they are historically accurate and funny at the same time

[@Ubotit_Unaymit]

Quack bang😊

[@argentum530]

Agree, I just watched his video on Operation Preying Mantis, it was accurate and funny... new meaning to proportional response.

[@NTZClaw]

It should be required in all schools to hear his depiction of Cassius Clay's (not the boxer) exploits.

[@Ubotit_Unaymit]

@@NTZClaw That's my favorite one!

[@NTZClaw]

@@Ubotit_Unaymit the man's life story should be in theaters.

[@freedomis4all]

For anyone wondering, the memes he's (probably) referencing are made by Habitual Linecrosser. He's also an excellent reference for anything air defence related.

[@oldworldpatriot8920]

He’s definitely more Rightwing than I care for, but at least he’s on Ukraines side and some of its funny

[@margaretnicol3423]

It makes sense because a Scot was the father of the US Navy (John Paul Jones) and Scotland builds exceedingly fine ships so damaging them is an insult by the English. No Scot would allow that. 😀 Nice to see the tradition continues! The Lusitania was built in Scotland!!!

[@bonniebrush94]

Interesting! Thanks!

[@almitrahopkins1873]

I got some bad news for you. The guy who started the US Navy was Esek Hopkins, not John Paul Jones. He was a Scotsman too, just out of Rhode Island.

[@margaretnicol3423]

@@bonniebrush94 You can visit the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California. She was built in the same place as the Lusitania - and a host of other famous ships.

[@erinmac4750]

I did not know this. Even more reasons to be proud of my heritage. 💜🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿✌️😎

[@ouachitawoman]

The Fat Electrician does a great job explaining our history with others touching our boats. Highly recommend his videos.

[@muc405]

Love his channel! He makes history very entertaining.

[@edbe7385]

@@muc405 Bro could sit there and tell you his adventures of grocery shopping and still make it entertaining.

[@ComaDave]

"NO TOUCHING!!" - Rear Admiral George Bluth.

[@almitrahopkins1873]

The Cole? The Stark? The Cuban Missile Crisis? If you go all the way back to the Civil War, you’ll probably find that Ft Sumter fired on merchant shipping before it was fired on. A naval blockade started that war. Ft Sumter was just the first recorded military target. The War of 1812 started over the press-ganging of American sailors by the Royal Navy. They were stealing the crews of American merchant shipping in foreign ports. That falls into the “don’t touch my boats” too.

[@briant7134]

I knew about all of the wars you cited as examples, and yet it took this video to make me realize just how touchy we are about shipping. It’s just so normalized that it appears unremarkable from the inside. PS: your delivery on how we *thought* the Spanish touched our boat killed me 😂

[@rylian21]

Trade is the lifeblood of peace, stability, and eternal quarterly growth.

[@Felrika]

The US is bordered by two docile neighbors and fish. The only direction that any threat is going to come from is from the sea. Not responding to our ships being attacked would be akin to not responding to someone violating your sovereignty. As a superpower, we can't let that be done from a foreign policy angle.

[@MrsCyImsofly]

I take the safety and dependability of our boats quite personally myself. I'd go as far to say I'd bet my life on them and do everything in my power to protect them and the sailors they carry. Even if they don't feel the same.

[@peterweller8583]

When a Country depends on international commerce shipping is always a concern.

[@maxttck]

Exact same for the UK and the Royal Navy. Being an island and isolated from Europe is similar to the US position

[@Gravefalcon]

"Show me on the model boat where the bad country touched you"

[@mljones655]

LOL GOOD ONE!

[@debidallacosta5736]

You win the comment section today 🤣

[@Lantalia]

... "proportional response" is the context I see more often [operation praying mantis]

[@RaptorJesus]

All American responses are "proportional". We're just also *really bad at math.*

[@dankolar6066]

See "1797 Treaty Of Tripoli".

[@brettkimmel2360]

USS Liberty: …

[@bradf1467]

Why would the USA be emphasizing "don't touch my boat" at this time? Does it have anything to do with a new pier being put in place? Does it have anything with trying to get aid into Gaza? Is there something bigger going on in the Seven Sea's that we are unaware of? Is it just a friendly reminder to any and all possible adversaries to keep their distance?

[@deanvaillancourt2881]

The F-22 "Would you intercept me? I would intercept me" is my favorite!

[@iquestion8493]

👋 Thanks Beau and crew 😊.

[@iainherridge6253]

Thanks Boat and crew 😊

[@Erin-Thor]

Thanks Crew and Boat! Wait…

[@iquestion8493]

@@Erin-Thor Good morning Erin 👋🌞

[@iquestion8493]

@@iainherridge6253 👋🙂💙💙😊

[@Lazy_Fish_Keeper]

​@@Erin-Thor 👋☺️

[@MikeA817]

Never thought I would hear mandatory funday on TikTok reference in a beau video l o l

[@jollyjackass]

Ngl. Totally read this title in mandatoryfundays voice

[@TheGreatSkrob]

We all did, 😂

[@Erin-Thor]

I always do.

[@mikelabomusic7782]

At first I thought “Finding Nemo.” Then remembered Mandatory Funday!

[@corystevenson9968]

The fact that Habitual Line Crosser skits made it to a bow video is pretty awesome. I love both these guys.

[@TheReflectivePerspective]

After all, military ships are essentially floating military bases. Documented vessels don't receive the same status, but they also seem to tend to be more respected as property & responsibility of a given flagged country than some random sailboat from my observations as well. Maritime law is extraordinarily complex, though.

[@waynetec13]

I love that dude's shorts. He's pretty spot on. I especially like his thing about Poland and Canada wanting a copy of the "Geneva checklist." 🤣

[@BeauoftheFifthColumn]

Stop calling it a checklist!

[@jessecarozza8134]

Is that... a Habitual Linecrosser reference? :D

[@jollyjackass]

Mandatoryfunday. Hab would be either grandpa buff or the kid if I was to take a guess.

[@Hellworthy]

As funny as the “don’t touch my boats” meme is I would like to point out when have we as Americans ever reacted sanely to anyone breaking any of our toys. If you hit a jet jeep helicopter… whatever that just brings more American soldiers and guarantees they are going to be in a mood when they get there

[@dansharpe2364]

English person here. I think I can safely say that we invented this.

[@Jeff-q4u]

I think Americans forget we are an island 🤔

[@almitrahopkins1873]

Shall I remind you that the War of 1812 was over your Royal Navy touching American boats?

[@dansharpe2364]

@@almitrahopkins1873 our boats, which you stole.

[@eyesofthecervino3366]

​@@dansharpe2364 You're just mad you couldn't figure out a way to fit the pyramids into a museum.

[@ivanheffner2587]

@@dansharpe2364 Who built the boats? Where were the boats built? Where did the materials come from? Now whose boats were they?

[@suzannederusha1370]

I never knew about this, thanks for the information Beau.

[@flatbunny]

"Don't touch my boat" unless it's the USS Liberty and it's 1967. Then go nuts.

[@margaretwordnerd5210]

An old sailor I know lost a couple of friends on the Liberty. He was very dissatisfied with the official story for that atrocity.✌🖖

[@mjaynes288]

Since Beau tends to have story arcs I feel that will likely come up in a future video.

[@BlueberryBricks]

Only Israel could get away with that. Tells you something about the relationship they have with the US.

[@jamesschrader6855]

Thanks Beau and I never heard of this! However USA war ships and cargo ships are very important and easy rallying for public opinion!

[@michaelmaiara4770]

Don't even think about touching our boats.

[@jimallen8186]

Secretary of the Navy once was not only a full cabinet position, it was a stepping stone to the Oval.

[@mealzonwheelz2453]

The fact that you have to explain this meme, makes it even more hilarious. Don't touch the boats.

[@jenniferhanses]

Agree with you in general. I'd just add that from a historical perspective, even when we weren't powerful, the last line in our defense is in the ocean for the most part. So even if we just want to play the defensive game, Don't touch our boats. Because our neighbors are Canada, who we haven't fought since the War of !812, so I think that stopped in 1815. We've gone more than 200 years without another war, and have a basically totally unguarded boarder with them and it's likely to stay that way unless someone wants to invade Canada on the way to invading the US. Because we don't want to invade them, and they don't want to invade us. We're good. We're generally even buddies. And our other boarder is with Mexico. And that boarder isn't as friendly. I think the last war we had with them was in 1854 or so? Something like that. I don't maybe they were involved in the Spanish American War at the turn of the 20th century. I don't feel like looking it up right now. But even then, it's been over 100 years to 170 years since we've fought them. We have tensions with them over immigration. But neither of us is particularly interested in solving that by war. We''re good being on the same continent with boarders touching. We don't need to send the military to shoot each other. I suppose that might change one day. But it also might improve in the areas where we're not doing so well. So it's not really a pressing concern. So all the invasions and bad things? They're going to come from OVER THERE. And where is OVER THERE? Not sure. we've got two oceans to watch, which makes us all the more sensitive about the boats because we have to effectively pay for two navies to keep ourselves safe. The Navy is the first line of defense and the Coast Guard is the last line of defense before invasion. And we'd really like to keep invasion far, far away on the first line of defense. Also worth considering trade and soft power. Shipping has been a cornerstone of that for a very very long time, and still is even with air travel. We're a capitalist power. Striking our trading ships is also hitting us in the power coupons.

[@romanwiller2180]

I could only think of two things during this video: 1 - “He touched the butt” Finding Nemo 2 - Blame the Maine on Spain.

[@kolt4d559]

Don't touch the boats, some of these boats house the 2nd most powerful air force in the world.

[@knightofavalon86]

"we touched their boats. They dropped the sun on us twice." -Japan

[@PaulTheadra]

Stop touching my sesame cake!

[@roadswithbeau]

I love that movie

[@JMM33RanMA]

I don't disagree with Beau on this, but when I hear "don't touch our boats" I not only think of John Paul Jones, I hear Zero Mostel singing "Tradition...tradition!!!" Perhaps it's because I'm a New Englander and the seafaring traditions are very strong here, as well as the patriotism of the first state to rebel in 1774, or perhaps because I have visited the USS Constitution a number of times and watched her receive the salutes from the forts and all other ships when she sails out on the harbor. Yes in addition to the protection, the US is a seafaring nation, why else is there a navy base in Colorado?

[@junglechick13]

Why IS there a navy base in Colorado? That's a long way from the coasts.

[@JMM33RanMA]

@@junglechick13 I think it's a Naval Air Station and may be related to the university. It just sounds odd.

[@junglechick13]

@JMM33RanMA it does sound odd, but come to think of it, Naval air stations have planes, don't they?

[@JMM33RanMA]

@@junglechick13 Yes indeed.

[@lornamorgan3575]

Habitual Line Crosser is so funny in his shorts with don't touch the boats. 😂

[@TheMcEwens419]

Don't touch the boats. . . Please. The title had me smile, but the gravity behind it isn't funny.

[@gmw3083]

The stupidity behind it isn't funny either. But then DC doesn't have much else.

[@MonicaLea]

Sounds like someone has been watching Habitual Linecrosser's videos

[@deanvaillancourt2881]

Wiskey! Temper! Temper! ON WISCONSIN!

[@tompedigo9246]

Don’t mess with our power coupons.

[@Feezec]

*GASP* he touched the butt!

[@SaberToothBicycle]

Check out the history of the HMS Gaspee, Beau.

[@shawnr771]

The History Guy covers the incident very well. The British started the revenue cutters because according to them. The colonists in America were the best smugglers. John Hancock's ship The Liberty was impounded for suspected smuggling of molasses from the French West Indies.

[@queengoddessb69]

TSA weirdness is easier to understand when you remember that early flying machines were called airSHIPS.

[@spuriousc]

Pre revolutionary America also has the triangle trade going on. Shipping has been integral since the before times

[@rachelp2468]

Also the fact that we can just show up off someone's coast in international waters. No permission from an ally needed.

[@jeanine1410]

Thank you Team Beau., like the history lesson.

[@Lee-zw9rn]

Knowing is half the battle!

[@borisbadenov8613]

Don't touch our boats! The Canadian response ROTFLOAO!

[@jeffshafer9079]

The oldest military monument in the United States is in Annapolis, Maryland, at the Naval Academy. Decatur, Somers, Caldwell, Wadsworth, Israel, Dorsey. Belligerent men who ignored President Monroe and sailed to the Barbary Coast. We did not pay tribute to the pirates. Free navigation of the seas.

[@CrystalAbrahams]

I believe Beau is a clinical genius. How does he know all that? I didn't know about 90 % of those dates. I didn't take them in school. 🇨🇦

[@BiggestBigBoy]

We don't own the Atlantic, we're just part of the organization that owns the Atlantic. The Pacific's pretty much ours, tho.

[@kjj26k]

And by part we mean in charge of, de facto.

[@irgendwieanders2121]

Only 'cause you stole Hawaii

[@scottlurker991]

More people need to know about Operations Earnest Will and Praying Mantis.

[@johnmullin4175]

Commodore Perry opened Japan for trade in 1853 by sailing into the harbor laden with cannons.

[@michaelgraziano8038]

I am simultaneously a little happy you did this explainer and very concerned that the folks who are asking might have been from the USA and missed out on SO MUCH OF US HISTORY in high school. But yes: Don’t. Touch. THE BOATS.

[@dangwallt481]

The iconic British ship is probably HMS Victory, preserved in dry dock in Portsmouth. Also part of the US motivation at the time I suspect!

[@JeanKnits]

The Great White Fleet is a good example, too.

[@imlaffytaffy]

Did someone talk about touching our boats?!

[@seraphonica]

and here I thought I was smart for remembering the Zimmerman note!

[@placeholdername0000]

One of the weird things about the US is how the US can make mistake upon mistake and still win. This is due to the massive geographic advantage that the US has. Edit: To elaborate, other countries really have to compete on efficiency. The US has to ability to make it up in scale.

[@jenniferbrien3408]

That, and the world's biggest moat.

[@markrenfrow9873]

Hey Beau and internet folks.

[@savagewife98]

"Temper, temper"

[@theresjer]

Gulf of Tonkin: 'we could plausibly claim they tried to touch our boat'

[@GuntherRommel]

Nice Mandatory Funday reference, Beau.

[@robertlewis8295]

My favorite version is Habitual Line Crosser, when his character of Japan says "Don't touch the boats!" as a warning to others.

[@jeffhess4650]

As a former sailor on board the USS Bainbridge CGN 25, I took part in such power projection operations, particularly in the Sea of Okhotsk, against the Soviet Union. Regarding USS Maddox and USS Turner Joy: They were part of a long line of "excuses" for power projection. To just remember three that you presented, similar arguments (some more credible than others) have been made for Pearl Harbor, RMS Lusitania and USS Maine.

[@Jamie_says_weirding_is_real]

There are some violent situations in our lives in which we negotiate a level of control by finding a boundary we can maintain & doing it forcefully.

[@TheUnatuber]

Will it be "Don't touch our spacecraft!!!" in 2124?

[@supergreggiepants6875]

The Beau/Mandatory Funday crossover was not on my bingo card this week.