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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsStopping ships on the high seas
Isn't that piracy?
And once they stop them what?
Seize the cargo?
Hold them for ransom?
Sink them?
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Stopping ships on the high seas (Original Post)
Bmoboy
4 hrs ago
OP
If TSF attacks ships in the straits, blockage is gonna be a nightmare while ships are disabled
Deuxcents
4 hrs ago
#3
The following is a reader comment from The Washington Post on an article dealing with this.
cloudbase
2 hrs ago
#5
Hope22
(4,789 posts)1. We have a,ready done all of that !
He is a pirate!
dweller
(28,479 posts)2. Pisswig
the Pirate
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Deuxcents
(27,125 posts)3. If TSF attacks ships in the straits, blockage is gonna be a nightmare while ships are disabled
enough
(13,765 posts)4. What a great way to return to normal commerce and restore the global economy.
cloudbase
(6,282 posts)5. The following is a reader comment from The Washington Post on an article dealing with this.
Thought experiment: Suppose one or more NATO members escort their merchant vessels through the strait with their own naval vessels. Trump gives the U.S. Navy the order to board/sink any or all of those ships running his blockade. You are in command of a U.S. naval vessel. What do you do?
Now, change NATO to China. What do you do?
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Me again: Kobayashi Maru or Bedford Incident?
Norrrm
(5,190 posts)6. Trump stole the oil coming from Venezuela.