Cool.
Anyone America doesn’t like — we’ll just designate them pirates and brigands.
Then: “Damn the agreements...full speed ahead!”
That is not how it works, so that is a false argument.
“Anyone America doesn’t like — we’ll just designate them pirates and brigands.”
This has nothing to do with the U.S. and everything to do with Russia unilaterraly abrogating the Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas treaty. The discounted price for the Ukrainian purchase of Russian natural gas was in exchange for Russia to maintain a naval base in the Crimea for a specified limited time period. Russia’s doubling of the natural gas price for the Ukraine abrogated the treaty and stole the Ukrainian territories in breach of international peace, the budapest memorandum 1994, the Charter of the United Nations, and the Kellogg-Briand Pact. Furthermore, Russia used GRU Spetsnaz troops covertly in military uniforms lacking the distinguishing insignia of a commisioned combatant as required by the laws of war and the Hague Conventions relating to war. These covert Spetsnaz troops are therefore unlawful combatants punishable under the laws of war and the Hague Conventions as spies, saboteurs, brigands, and (yes) even as pirates.
“Then: “Damn the agreements...full speed ahead!””
That is exactly what Putin’s Russian regime did in fact with its blatant abrogation of the Russian Ukrainian Naval Base for Gas treaty and unlawful conquest of the Ukrainian Crimea.