Haven van Rotterdam, LvOP, voormalig 2e Kamerbewoner, Polskicor, Politicoloog, Onderwijskundige, Sportverslaafd, Service Volley. Schrijft op pers. titel
@maria_avdv@TheOlimpicGames You are apparently allowed to kill your future opponents. Very complex indeed. Those in the governing boards have chosen their legacy to be completely tight to evil. Oh en btw they will continue to dope. What a disgrace.
Russia spent last week murdering civilians sleeping in their homes with ballistic missiles and now the Olympics invites them back. That means the russian anthem will play at the next games. This is absolutely disgusting.
🎯 As I’ve been saying for years, Putin has exposed himself in Ukraine. Want to stop Russia’s election interference and propaganda? Its campaigns of sabotage and assassination? Its aid to dictatorships from Cuba and Venezuela to Iran and its terror proxies? Defeat him in Ukraine.
Hi Glenn, Bart here. I can explain international maritime law to you, and maybe you would then understand that freedom of navigation does not apply to stateless ships. This vessel is stateless as it was flying the flag of Madagascar but was not registered there. The reason? Because normally the flag state would be responsible for safety, security, and labour laws on board a ship. As the vessel is stateless, there is no flag state. As such, a port or coastal state has the authority (given by UN international maritime law) to board and detain a vessel to ascertain the nationality and basically act as a flag state. The coastal state is allowed to enforce these laws in international waters (the coastal state becomes the de facto flag state).
Why would we allow such a thing?
You see, when a ship would ground, sink, and/or get damaged and oil would spill on our coasts and kill birds, destroy the livelihood of fishermen, the tourist industry, and destroy nature, the insurance of the vessel would pay for the damages. As the vessel is stateless, there is no insurance company. So if a vessel were to flounder, the cost would fall on the citizens of the coastal state that got hit by the oil spill and not the shipping company. That's why, when UNCLOS 82 was negotiated, a lot of countries made sure that there were provisions so that a coastal state could take these vessels and remove them from our seas.
Now, concerning sanctions.
Of course, you can not enforce them in international waters on a ship flying a foreign flag. You would only be able to enforce those if the ship were flying the flag of your own country and/or if the ship were to sail in your territorial waters. (A vessel sailing through your territorial waters has to adhere to the laws of the coastal state and, as such, adhere to any sanctions, even unilateral sanctions.) But here's the thing. As I explained before, there is no flag state, so the coastal state has become the de facto flag state of the boarded vessel. And guess what... now the vessel has to adhere to unilateral sanctions.
I'm really happy I could explain this to you. Best regards
Western countries, when russia starts collapsing again — keep your hands off.
No more saving the empire. No more loans, “resets,” investments, partnerships or cheap gas addiction. No more feeding it so it can rebuild and return with another war, another genocide.
The russian empire must break apart. The nations trapped inside it deserve freedom. Evil that is not destroyed always comes back stronger.
Lots of bored and sympathetic journalists in Moscow—critical ones often expelled from the country—where they are safe and sound, instead of in Ukraine, where far worse Russian attacks happen every day with the only intent of killing civilians.
A reminder that Jimmy Carter sold his peanut farm to avoid conflicts of interest.
Now we have a president openly buying and selling stocks and crypto while his family business keeps making business deals all over the world that directly profit him, and it’s all treated as normal.
Meanwhile, Republicans like James Comer and Jim Jordan are still obsessing over Hunter Biden’s paintings and Hillary Clinton’s emails.
Drain. The. Swamp