# What to do about hijacks?

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**Created:** [February 9, 2023, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-to-do-about-hijacks/979509 "2023-02-09T04:03:49Z")\
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A hijack means different things to different people. Someone opining about the same subject in a breaking news thread is not the same sort of hijack as Steve’s chiropracty in a conversation about Bob’s yard activities.

i.e. Velocity just got banned from the Ukraine War thread for wondering about American jets doing covert bombing runs on Russian positions. Are we supposed to be discussing Ukraine or is that thread meant to be a news aggregator?

> [@Russia invades Ukraine {2022-02-24} (Part 2)](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/russia-invades-ukraine-2022-02-24-part-2/973972/2109):
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> > **hid by mod, hijack**
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> > Wonder how difficult it would be for the US to chip in with a few covert airstrikes. A B-2 that dropped a few bombs here and there on Russian positions (no more than 30 miles from Ukrainian front lines) might be perceived as being the doing of Ukrainian drones, rocket artillery or whatnot, but make a valuable little bit of contribution to the war effort. For clarification, I’m not debating the politics of it, but just asking about the technological feasibility of it.

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