Rules based international order

allegedly bound for China

That's a relief, for a second I thought this was totally unjustified

you forgot the "/sar"

Um, isn’t this like an undebatably violent action? Who approved this with the full knowledge that it could literally lead to nuclear war???

Welcome to yankee foreign policy
They do it because they know their enemies are more reasonable and far less aggressive and violent than they are.

Rules (for thee, not for me) based international order...

rules-based order (i make the rules and order every one around)
- Spoken like Ben

Not the first time USA committed piracy. I am sure not the last.

If the state has it's done it's called privateering

consent meme with Jesus and the couple but with America as Jesus and China and Iran are the couple

That explains what the meme was about yesterday

Jurassic Park is American, so consequently Americans own the rights to any dinosaurs that appeared in it. Oil is from biological matter including dinosaurs, therefore Americans own that too. So really all oil is American and they were just taking back what belonged to them. Honestly China should be held accountable for stealing from the United States.

I did the USians mental gymnastics for them, they owe me.

According to the replies and down votes I got the other day, this is either fine because the shipping company plead guilty or is fine because some US private equity technically temporarily owned the ship.

America is an enemy of mankind confirmed.

They’re allowed to just do that???

Real 18th century hours, we bringin back piracy on the high seas
Why not? Nobody's stopping them
- My mindset is clearly not suited for understanding US policies because, to me, if any other country pulled this stunt everyone would be rightfully up in arms but because it’s the US there’s only crickets.
The headline is sensationalized. They called the shipping company and told them they weren't allowed to so they voluntarily sailed the ship to a US port.
FTA:
In April, the company operating the ship carrying the oil, Empire Navigation, pleaded guilty to conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act. The IRCG was fined almost $2.5 million and was sentenced to three years of corporate probation. The company’s vessel, Suez Rajan Limited, transported the contraband to the US and “incurred the significant expenses associated with the vessel’s voyage to the United States,” according to the DOJ.
- if it's the international emergency economic powers act why's the US get it all
possession is ten tenths of international law

Next ship Iran sends should be full of empty barrels and a host of booby traps. First jackbooted thug to step foot on the vessel activates the lot.

America then crying to the UN trying to justify invading Iran: "They sunk one of our ships while we were trying to steal their oil!"

a ship full of empty barrels rigged with looney tunes-style traps such as an empty barrel tied to a rope that causes a large anvil to fall on whoever moves it

death to america

alternatively, critical support to america for helping china lower its greenhouse emissions