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You need a strong military to enforce rules between countries. Bodies such as the UN and WTO just aren't strong enough to do much if anything beyond a press rel
by chaostheory 5y ago
You need a strong military to enforce rules between countries. Bodies such as the UN and WTO just aren't strong enough to do much if anything beyond a press release. Even if those international bodies were strong enough, I do not feel that they are immune to corruption.
In reality, Argentina would either need to buy or build a respectable navy (too poor), OR publicly ally with the US AND petition that the US Navy enforce Argentina's territorial rights (the US military and its navy are overstretched already).
- eloff 5y agoI'm sure the Argentine Navy isn't the best by a long margin. But it should be more than capable of catching and scuttling fishing ships.
- eloff 5y agoThat they don't do this suggests they don't care about the problem or don't want to risk the diplomatic consequences with China.
- throwaway2037 5y agoThe Indonesian navy does it to Chinese fishing vessels. They do this with primitive resources and without "help" from the US military. Why does Argentina need the US navy? Why not Brazil?
- Oblong0 5y agoBased just on the Wikipedia pages for both the Indonesian Navy and the Argentine, it appears the Indonesian Navy is much much larger (74k vs 18k active) and has vastly superior equipment to the Argentines.
- nradov 5y agoArgentina's GDP is less than half of Indonesia's. Argentina's EEZ waters generally have more extreme weather conditions and thus require larger vessels to patrol.