International law used to allow for the hanging of pirates. In our so-called “enlightened” age, this is no longer the case. The biggest screw-up by the Russian was to talk about what happened. If pirate crews simply disappeared, piracy would become a less attractive form of employment.
My best picture has the pirate crew all hanging over the side, very dead, as their craft slowly enters homeport on autopilot. Now THAT sends a message.
If the law now is ineffective, then we need to fix it.
It worries me when there are so many on FR that are willing to chunk the rule of law and adopt vigilante justice when they don't like the results.
We seem to opt for anarchy rather than the fixing of laws and processes, and that is not a long-term strategy that supports democracy.