Comments by "" (@VersusARCH) on "What went wrong in Norway? - Some Very Norsepicious Plans" video.

If you mine someone else's waters that country can still sweep those mines and actually is obliged to do so. If it refuses - it sides with the country laying the mines. You can check the Corfu Channel incident for reference. Just after the end of WW2 communist Yugoslavia laid mines in communist Albanian waters on Albanian request. Albania was eventually held responsible when two British destroyers demonstrating force in Albanian waters (trying to prevent aid to Greek communists in the ongoing Greek Civil War) ran into the laid mines and got damaged (one beyond repair) with dozens of sailors killed.
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@MSNL123 That is also true. That is why Britain was also found guilty of violating Albanian waters. Essentially in this case the duty to sweep mines in your waters in peacetime collided with the right to excersise self defense (there was no war declared or an outright hostile action by the British other than slight violation of teritorial waters). And since UK held much more sway on the international stage the rulings, while finding both sides at fault, were in practical terms less favorable to Albania.
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... Because Luftwaffe. Even if RN defeated the naval rush force, German Luftwaffe and ground forces (alpine forces and paratroopers) would have eventually captured the whole of Norway, it would have just taken longer. During the invasion of Crete the naval prong was defeated by the RN yet the invasion succeeded due to Luftwaffe support.
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Joakim von Anka Pffft... The Dutch... :D
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