I would get on the phone to whoever is running Somalia and give them 24 hours to get the ship/crew free, and stop it from ever happening again.
After 24 hours, if not corrected, ever sea port in that country large enough to launch a 12 foot jon boat would look like a scrap metal dump.
Everything within 50 miles of their coastline would be ashes and rubble.
Sounds good to me.
I always thought, silly me, that if you fly the US Flag you are under the protection of the US Navy. Of course beginning with the Pueblo seizure, we know that not to be the case. With Illegals being given financial rewards to attend state colleges, with a non citizen running the government, and with this latest fiasco, I wonder why I value my citizenship so highly.
Vince
Nobody is running Somalia. It’s a nation of bandits, pirates and terrorists.
There’s your problem, there hasn’t been anyone “in charge” of Somalia since the mid 1990’s. Even the Red Cross and UN aid workers stay away from that place......
And every port there already looks like a scrap metal dump, except no scrap metal, everything of value has already been taken and sold to the black market by the Clans to buy weapons for their “Militias”.
And all the major cities already are basically rubble....
so now what?
The flaw in your plan is that nobody's running Somalia.
The only solution is a stealth ship that looks like a cargo vessel, but is really a death trap for whichever band of pirates "takes it over". All bodies and pirate vessels are sunk at sea, and it all gets handled quietly.
Vigilante justice, at the end of the day, is simply justice.
The people along those coasts know who is doing this and they are either part of it, egging it on and proud of it, turning a blind eye to it, or are too cowed to try and stop it
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Here’s is how you stop it.
You haul one of our old liberty ships out of mothballs. . Equip it with turbine engines and sophisticated sensors all around. Man it with a 100 or so Marines armed to the teeth. In fact, put several of these to sea.
Paint them nine shades of rust and put smoke pots in the old stacks to make them look like easy pickings. Limp them along through pirate infested waters.
When pirates attack they all die. Put their bodies in the boat they came in (if it still floats) and set it adrift.
No fanfare, no news articles, claim no knowledge. After a while pirates will notice that their guys go out but don’t come back except for the occasional skiff that washes ashore with bullet riddled bodies.
They’ll stop.