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American Hypocrisy (lemmy.zip)

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Our long history of violating international law continues...

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[–] j4k3@piefed.world 58 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Privateering

[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I just want to say how much I love Lemmy. Yes. Privateering. 😉 Although technically privateers were privately owned vessels operating under government sanction.

So think Gravy Seal boats capturing an oil tanker.

[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago

Give them time. They could just be setting precedent for PMCs to legally seize one in the future.

When a company like Amazon publicly displays the bodies of the pirates they hanged in a vassal state of which they have de facto control, we'll know we're in the next iteration of the age of privateering and the East India Company.

[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago

Thats the Merchant Marine. We've always had privateers

[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Nope not that either. Privateers are private ships committing piracy under the authority of the state.

The US used the military. It's just a regular old act of war