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As Sid Meier’s Civilization game taught me, privateering is explicitly not a declaration of war. It’s been used many times as a Cold War style tactic. Now, Rus
by prepend 5y ago
As Sid Meier’s Civilization game taught me, privateering is explicitly not a declaration of war. It’s been used many times as a Cold War style tactic.
Now, Russia might declare ware and cite this as a reason, but it’s not. It’s more like state sponsored terrorism. Like how Iran isn’t actually declaring war on Israel with its Hezbollah sponsorship.
Similarly, the US wasn’t declaring war on the USSR when it armed Afghan rebels in the 80s.
- hef19898 5y agoPrivateering stopped being a thing in the late 19th century. Being state-sanctioned, it is kind of a declaration of war, especially nowadays it would be. Confiscating assets due to sanctions is very different from privateering.
- jwithington 5y agoThe mechanism for war would be Russians killing American privateers