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Which is why so many ships sail under the flags of states with the ability to protect them, like the USA, Great Britain, Russia or China, and not Panama, Liberi
by laverya 5y ago
Which is why so many ships sail under the flags of states with the ability to protect them, like the USA, Great Britain, Russia or China, and not Panama, Liberia or Bolivia.
- jeffbee 5y agoIf you sink a ship registered in Panama, you have made war against Panama and transitively against the United States of America and all other signatories of the Inter-American Treaty of Reciprocal Assistance.
- simonh 5y agoIf say Russia sinks a Bolivian boat, there are plenty of other major nations with navies that will get upset about it just because they want to keep the Russians in check. Not because they care about Bolivia. If the Russian navy sinks some stateless seasteading anarchists, nobody is going to give a crap.