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[–] jordanlund@lemmy.world 26 points 11 months 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.

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[–] Remember_the_tooth@lemmy.world 8 points 11 months 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.

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[–] A_Union_of_Kobolds@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Thats the Merchant Marine. We've always had privateers

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[–] arrow74@lemmy.zip 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months 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