Maersk to use rail for some vessels to bypass Panama Canal amid drought (www.reuters.com)

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[-] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 4 points 10 months ago

Oof, so we've got a drought in Panama, and terrorists in the suez? Spicy

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

And a rapidly destabilizing situation in the SCS.

And contention over the Essequibo.

Edit: by terrorism, you must mean the unilateral military action taken on by the US and UK without UNSC authorization, right?

[-] cbarrick@lemmy.world 1 points 10 months ago

unilateral [...] US and UK

How is it unilateral if two countries are coordinated?

(Yes, I'm being pedantic. My apologies.)

Also, it's not the job of the UNSC to "authorize" military action of individual nations. UNSC authorization of force (Article 42) refers to sending UN peacekeeping forces, like in the Korean war. This hasn't happened many times.

Article 51 allows member states to use force to defend themselves. US and UK military ships were being attacked.

[-] intelshill@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

International law also allows a country to protect its own territorial waters and enforce sanctions through them. Sovereignty supercedes the right to self-defence: if a US warship sails into Chinese territorial waters and gets beat down, international law sides with China.