“No it doesnt. Nice try, though.”
Give me a source, at long last. And not Vattel. Give me U.S. law.
Not gonna happen. He doesn't have a source or he would surely have shown it by now, if only to shut us up. :-)
And I'm going to bed, where I'm sure I'll be dreaming of "sources". I'll check in the morning and see if he or anyone else actually came up with one.