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American Hypocrisy (lemmy.zip)
submitted 11 months ago by to c/politicalmemes@lemmy.ca
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Our long history of violating international law continues...

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[–] 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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  • [–] 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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