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...to stop iranian seizures of tanker ships

not even US flagged ships

that's pretty funny

so now we're fighting a proxy war in ukraine, ginning up war in africa, antagonizing iran, and generally fucking around in the middle east because muh greatest ally
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Peter 2y ago

>not even US flagged ships

Dual-citizens and creative bookkeeping. But the hobbyist that earned $600 last year is about to find out why the IRS has 87,000 new agents

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d 2y ago

one consequence of not registering your ship in the US is supposed to be that the US navy won't do much to help you, aside from rendering assistance as required of any naval vessel

but if they start actively protecting *everybody* then there's no reason for ships on international routes to be registered in the US at all. which will make our civilian cargo fleet wither away, and when we need it in wartime, it won't exist anymore :02shrug: