Russia sends navy to guard oil tanker being pursued by US forces (www.bbc.com)
from Quilotoa@lemmy.ca to world@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 13:20
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RamRabbit@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 14:04 next collapse

It has now been seized. More info: twz.com/…/u-s-forces-seize-fleeing-russian-flagge…

resipsaloquitur@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 15:45 next collapse

“In accordance with the norms of the 1982 UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, a regime of freedom of navigation operates in the waters of the high seas, and no state has the right to use force against ships properly registered in the jurisdictions of other states,” the message said.

I don’t know enough to say if the seizure is good or bad, but the bit about UNLoS is irrelevant since the US never ratified it.

Though the US will claim UNLoS gives them the right to put boats between Taiwan and mainland China.

And ironically, China did sign UNLoS but flagrantly violates it by building artificial islands and claiming they extend their territorial and EEZ waters, on top of attacking others who are navigating legally under UNLoS.

BoJackHorseman@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 16:34 collapse

Better build artificial Islands than colonize Hawaii, Puerto Rico, Guam and Cuba.

The Dutch extended their land by capturing the sea too.

MrMakabar@slrpnk.net on 07 Jan 15:47 collapse

I did not had Trump joing Just Stop Oil on my 2026 bingo card.

hoch@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 18:15 collapse

No chance there’s oil on there

taiyang@lemmy.world on 07 Jan 17:04 next collapse

Let’s say hypothetically, a person like myself went full dictator in the US and seized hundreds of oil tankers across the world these in the name of fighting global warming. What would happen?

There’s lower hanging fruit like kidnapping billionaires and whatnot, but it’s a fun thought experiment if the left actually had someone the way the right pretends they do.

shalafi@lemmy.world on 08 Jan 02:13 collapse

They seriously tried repainting the ship like in Lord of War. Jesus.