• intelshill
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    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.

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      10 months ago

      What was the location of the US and UK ships? What are the treaties governing access to the Red Sea?

      Are you sure that counts as territorial waters for Yemen?