Rules (for thee, not for me) based international order…
rules-based order (i make the rules and order every one around)
Spoken like Ben
Um, isn’t this like an undebatably violent action? Who approved this with the full knowledge that it could literally lead to nuclear war???
Welcome to yankee foreign policy
They do it because they know their enemies are more reasonable and far less aggressive and violent than they are.
Not the first time USA committed piracy. I am sure not the last.
According to the replies and down votes I got the other day, this is either fine because the shipping company plead guilty or is fine because some US private equity technically temporarily owned the ship.
Jurassic Park is American, so consequently Americans own the rights to any dinosaurs that appeared in it. Oil is from biological matter including dinosaurs, therefore Americans own that too. So really all oil is American and they were just taking back what belonged to them. Honestly China should be held accountable for stealing from the United States.
I did the USians mental gymnastics for them, they owe me.
They’re allowed to just do that???
Why not? Nobody’s stopping them
My mindset is clearly not suited for understanding US policies because, to me, if any other country pulled this stunt everyone would be rightfully up in arms but because it’s the US there’s only crickets.
I don’t think it’s really that complicated. You’re right - if any other country pulled this stunt, everyone would be up in arms which is one of the reasons they don’t do that. But USA? Bases all over the world, chokehold on the world’s financial system, most pervasive propaganda apparatus in history. So nobody barks. Everyone bows their heads and pretends not to see they’re being robbed blind. Does that sound like a mafia? Because that’s what it is. Wiseguys strolling into shops and homes, taking what they want. And if you so much as raise your voice? Your house inexplicably gets burned down. And everyone will tut and say “Well you should’ve known better, that’s the rules of the neighborhood. It is what it is”
The mafia analogy is probably the best I’ve seen to describe the current state of the world. It’s just learned helplessness.