The Israeli military has intercepted a nine-boat flotilla in the Mediterranean Sea trying to break Israel’s naval blockade of Gaza and detained scores of activists on board.
Nah, that makes the fascist apartheid regime sound WAY cooler than they are.
In stark contrast to pirates they have literally no swagger, if not a negative amount that destroys whatever swagger anyone they associate with ever had.
They are more like privateers with a letter of marque. They act a lot like pirates, and to an innocent civilian that happens to encounter them they are more or less indistinguishable. The difference is they are well-supplied by the rich and wealthy and powerful nations of the world, then given carte blanche to do whatever they want and keep whatever they can take in a specific region with the goal of generally causing chaos and mayhem to their supporters’ enemies in the region. It wasn’t a new concept then, and it certainly hasn’t gone away in the modern geopolitical world, it’s just always changing costumes and tweaking the formula to keep things fresh.
The pirate cult strikes again.
Nah, that makes the fascist apartheid regime sound WAY cooler than they are.
In stark contrast to pirates they have literally no swagger, if not a negative amount that destroys whatever swagger anyone they associate with ever had.
They are more like privateers with a letter of marque. They act a lot like pirates, and to an innocent civilian that happens to encounter them they are more or less indistinguishable. The difference is they are well-supplied by the rich and wealthy and powerful nations of the world, then given carte blanche to do whatever they want and keep whatever they can take in a specific region with the goal of generally causing chaos and mayhem to their supporters’ enemies in the region. It wasn’t a new concept then, and it certainly hasn’t gone away in the modern geopolitical world, it’s just always changing costumes and tweaking the formula to keep things fresh.