What if anything differs if the pirated vessel is in some sovereign country’s territorial waters? I think when we offed the pirates it was close enough to Somalia to be in Somalia’s waters. Think Somalia issued us a warrant of some kind on those particular pirates maybe? Which is why their high muckety muck is saying he’s pleased with the outcome?
Somalia last I heard had something like a square city block left that actually had any formal sense of government left, it exactly as how Blackhawk Down was except I cannot say if we have any presence there or any other nation for humanitarian support at this time.
There will soon be an escalation, my guess is there may be a televised beheading now, they have no fear of anyone, remember they have captured ships full of Russian tanks and the Soviets did nothing.
Somalia is basically a pirate country, free range and target rich.