Intel != Missiles. Passing intel, giving loans, even giving arms is not a direct attack from country A against country B. These games are very old, older than these nations. As you have pointed out these actions are taken on both sides, these aren’t the same as the US blowing up a Chinese fishing boat or Russia bowing up a US comms satellite or Pakistan launching missiles at an indian oil refinery and so on. One is bullshit nations do that does not consecrate a definite act of war, and the other is an actual act of war.
That said people will actually strike with the argument that their enemy was playing those games even though most of the time they were as well but it’s good when they play those games and bad when their enemy does, so goes the bullshit logic of conflict.
Intel != Missiles. Passing intel, giving loans, even giving arms is not a direct attack from country A against country B. These games are very old, older than these nations. As you have pointed out these actions are taken on both sides, these aren’t the same as the US blowing up a Chinese fishing boat or Russia bowing up a US comms satellite or Pakistan launching missiles at an indian oil refinery and so on. One is bullshit nations do that does not consecrate a definite act of war, and the other is an actual act of war.
That said people will actually strike with the argument that their enemy was playing those games even though most of the time they were as well but it’s good when they play those games and bad when their enemy does, so goes the bullshit logic of conflict.