lusitania

This also reminds me of the the sinking of the Lusitania by German u-boats in WWI.

Not to mention that the Lusitania was carrying American munitions, in violation of America’s declared neutrality.

USA provided munitions before WW1 and Germans took out the Lusitania after warning Americans not to set sail on that boat.

Woodrow Wilson only joined WW1 once the Lusitania was sunk, which caused American deaths.

But when the Lusitania was torpedoed in May 1915, with loss of 128 American lives, anger against the Central Powers mush roomed overnight.

Is there a risk that this would be the modern day Lusitania [1]?

The Lusitania had nearly 1,200 of its passengers killed when it sank.

The RMS Lusitania and the US's entry into WW1 spring to mind.

That was one of the justifications the Germans used to sink Lusitania (which despite American and British protestations, it appears the Germans had actually been right in retrospect).

When the Lusitania sank a) the full-scale world war had been on for the best part of a year, and b) it was two years before the US entered that war.

The Lusitania was sunk in 1915, the US only entered WWI in 1917, mostly because Germany had recommenced unrestricted submarine warfare and proposed an anti-US alliance to Mexico (the famous Zimmermann telegram).

Shipwrecks often have a limited lifespan for things to be preserved too, for example there's very little left of Lusitania 's wreck that resembles a ship any more just a rusty debris field.

The Lusitania was full of weapons as divers discover in 2008, the first American sub to be sinked attacked the Germans first before war(that was never said to American public) and Robert Stinnett investigated about Pearl Harbor and how they already knew about it, the reason there were not air carriers there and the radar "confusion".

The limited information allowed through is heavily sanitized and depicts US actions as the Good Guys attacked by the Evil X, which is why so many of our wars start with a ship "under attack" (USS Maine, RMS Lusitania, Gulf of Tonkin incident), or supposed WMDs (Iran, Iraq) A great example is the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.

Kinda like the Sinking of the RMS Lusitania* IN 1915 showed what German torpedoes could do?

Prior to the sinking of the Lusitania, there was no guarantee that the fairly isolationist U.

It was built to compete with Cunard's Lusitania/Mauretania.