The US Navy seems to do quite well.

Under international law piracy has the for “private ends” clause when defining piracy meaning nation states can’t really do piracy but instead commerce raiding which is a form of warfere.

Whatever verbiage you use doesn't change the fact that Trump is just another war criminal in a long line of war criminals, starting with Truman.

With a small bribe they will be allowed in. No one is caring about the silly flag.

these are usually very poor crew trying to escape desperate circumstances. they arent in a bargaining position and are easy prey to pirates depending on the part of the world they are in. Since they’re ghost ships, anyone could basically take what they pleased without anyone knowing, not to mention whatever country is willing to take an unregistered ship to offload oil in amounts that someone annoying could notice.

it’s a bad situation for everyone but the seller that convinced the ship it could turn it around.

This is literally everything wrong with the tech industry in a single comment.