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Our long history of violating international law continues...

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[โ€“] Uruanna@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Privateers are private individuals. Not military. They just happened to be paid by a state.

The only distinction is for Venezuela to make. They won't handle an act of war the same way as an act of piracy - and they shouldn't be expected to be responsible for US internal politics, or give a shit.

[โ€“] arrow74@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Did you mean to reply to me? I'm pretty sure I made it very clear these were not privateers and was instead the military.

When I said "They committed state sanctioned piracy" I was replying to a comment asking about historical privateers. "They" refers to those historical privateers not the current situation with the US military being used