US just full on pirates now? Ahoy. Yo ho ho and a bottle of Donald J Trump is a pedophile rapist.
The United Kingdom issued a statement saying it supported the U.S. seizure of the Russian-flagged tanker.
Like obedient little vassals
Listen to us! We’re the Empire! The old Lion still has it’s mighty roar!
Oh yes USA, I will give you a good thorough suck.
“U.S. naval forces boarded the vessel in international waters outside the territorial waters of any state, and contact with the vessel was lost,” the statement read. The ministry added, “No state has the right to use force against vessels duly registered in the jurisdictions of other states.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt was asked at a press briefing on Wednesday if the tanker seizure risked a larger conflict with Russia. She said the tanker was a “Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel” and “deemed stateless.”
“This was a Venezuelan shadow fleet vessel that has transported sanctioned oil. The vessel was deemed stateless after flying a false flag and it had a judicial seizure order. And that’s why the crew will be subject to prosecution,” she told reporters.
So by this logic, the US gov can just declare any oil tanker as stateless, even if another state says it belongs to them. What is Russia even going to do as retaliation here? Seize US oil tankers? It seems like the only logical way to stop US piracy.
What is Russia even going to do as retaliation here?
They could finally win the war in Ukraine, that would be a good start
every day I am more of a z poster
The argument here under the “rule based order/international law” (lol) would be that you can’t just change to a Russian flag mid voyage after evading seizure, so that the “stateless” classification still applies, as it did during the initial seizure attempt.
I still don’t understand why the US thinks it gets to decide when and where and what other countries trade with each other.
cmon man, yes you do
little known fact: the US Coast Guard is the guardian of all the coasts and the open oceans.
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The ice on the Martian poles is a kind of body of water and therefore a coast of the United States
Surely at some point there’s gonna be retaliation? I get all that might makes right shit but surely they’re not gonna let the US just take everything at anytime completely unopposed just because they keep the finger on the red button
The US has probably done a risk assessment that shows that they can steal the occasional tanker or container ship and other countries won’t go to war over something like that, so the US will try and disrupt international trade as much as possible without causing other countries to escalate. I expect we’ll see more stuff like this in the future, probably in SEAsia to disrupt China’s shipping next.
It feels like right before WW2. When the world was in the appeasement phase.
The latest reporting says that the UK aided the US in the act of pirating the tankers.
“International” “Law” at work yet again
hexbear loves piracy until the usa does it
I would love to see the exact mental gymnastics libs are going through in their heads to justifying still believing in Russiagate
“No no no, Putin is playing 4D chess but I can see the cheeto is really his pawn”
they’re doing spheres of influence posting now
Whoever controls the oceans of this world, controls the land/islands 🎵. Container-ships/Bulk-freighters beat Rail when it comes to fuel efficiency.
Defending freedom of navigation in the South-China sea
