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		hef19898 on March 7, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Calling all pirates: This US lawmaker wants you to... Because all major sea powers, excluding the US, signed the Paris treaty of 1856, making privateering, basically, illegal. Since then harassing your enemies shipping in international waters, or those of your enemy, fell to the respective navies.

zozbot234 on March 7, 2022 [–]

These provisions are part of the customary laws of war. As such, they were never intended to apply to unlawful combatants such as terrorist groups.

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