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.
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.
Privateering
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.
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.
Thats the Merchant Marine. We’ve always had privateers
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