cm0002@suppo.fi to World News@quokk.au · 7 days agoGlobal shipping industry sounds the alarm over Trump’s Hormuz toll planwww.cnbc.comexternal-linkmessage-square4fedilinkarrow-up158arrow-down10
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minus-squareDarkCloud@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up13·7 days ago“toll”… Oh, so piracy. You know, demanding money from people in territory that isn’t your own… Because you have more guns. That’s just being a pirate.
minus-squareToastedRavioli@midwest.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up2·7 days agoClassical pirates had more legal justification for what they were doing than this, since they operated in a grey area. This is just flagrantly illegal
“toll”… Oh, so piracy. You know, demanding money from people in territory that isn’t your own… Because you have more guns.
That’s just being a pirate.
Classical pirates had more legal justification for what they were doing than this, since they operated in a grey area. This is just flagrantly illegal