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Our long history of violating international law continues...

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[–] 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.