• partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      The company is Greek.

      The ship was owned by a US company:

      "But the Suez Rajan case was unique at the time of the transfer because it was owned by the Los Angeles-based private equity firm Oaktree Capital Management. "

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        1 year ago

        Great. You got me on a technicality. So it’s okay for any country to steal oil from another if that tanker, or it’s propeller, was once owned by the thieving country?

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        1 year ago

        Your justifying piracy. It’s okay when we do it. But not when they do. How magnanimous.