Our long history of violating international law continues...
this post was submitted on 14 Dec 2025
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Thank you for this rephrasing. I couldn't read it in any other way than the US somehow being specially exempt from committing piracy, rather than the fact that being state sponsored (regardless of the state) means it can't technically, legally, be piracy.
If it helps to think of it in an 18th century swashbuckling sense, this would be an example of privateering rather than piracy.
Unless of course this was an act by state actors at the direction of the state in which case it would most logically be considered a military action and therefore an act of war, even if not yet declared