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0 pointsjjeaff3y ago0 comments

What law prohibits the seizure of foreign assets on international waters?

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I dunno. I'm not a lawyer. Possibly one of the ones against piracy?

If you want to make the argument that it is literal and raw might-makes-right on the high seas, ok. But that type of barbarian world is not one I encourage and it'd be a bit stunning to find someone who wants the world to work that way.

The US wouldn't do well in a world like that either, US citizens have more assets to seize than foreigners do.

BoorishBears3y ago

There's a certain irony in picking this high horse to ride, when we're taking about the response to a western european ground-war in the year 2022.

As if that's not evidence of far more barbaric mechanisms at play in geopolitics...

roenxi3y ago

Has stealing random stuff from Russians helped? I'm not a maritime lawyer or an expert on how war in the 2020s looks, but I don't think Russia was sailing troops into the Ukraine on billionaire pleasure yachts.

There is a pretty good chance this is just making people feel bad and making it harder to normalise the situation. This is action is literally not helping, and is a breach of good norms against stealing. It means the Russian billionaires will be forced to spend more of their money in Russia and have a great reason to bear a grudge against the more Western powers.

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roenxi3y ago

I dunno. I'm not a lawyer. Possibly one of the ones against piracy?

The US wouldn't do well in a world like that either, US citizens have more assets to seize than foreigners do.

BoorishBears3y ago

There's a certain irony in picking this high horse to ride, when we're taking about the response to a western european ground-war in the year 2022.

As if that's not evidence of far more barbaric mechanisms at play in geopolitics...

roenxi3y ago

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