Valnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agoIran unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laidwww.nytimes.comexternal-linkmessage-square42fedilinkarrow-up1131arrow-down118
arrow-up1113arrow-down1external-linkIran unable to open the Strait of Hormuz to more shipping traffic because it cannot locate all of the mines it laidwww.nytimes.comValnao@sh.itjust.works to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · edit-22 days agomessage-square42fedilink
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up19arrow-down2·24 hours agothat’s what happens with mines and it’s why they’re not fucking legal at all. you need a bunch of giant rats to help comb the land and they still blow farmers arms off 30 years later. imagine if they were fucking underwater
minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5·10 hours agoExcept that they are completely legal, you are correct.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·10 hours agoafaik it is illegal to use them to block commercial waterways which connect two giant international bodies of water
minus-squareDreamlandLividity@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·7 hours agoWell, that is against UNCLOS, but while Iran signed it, they did not ratify it. So, kinda not really.
minus-squareBenaaasaaas@group.ltlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4arrow-down1·8 hours agoIllegal according to whom? There is no authority for the entire world.
minus-squarenutsack@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·2 hours agoat least the Hague and the UN and a third one that I actually haven’t heard of before. That’s what defines international law right?
minus-squareTypotyper@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·15 hours agoThe giant rats would drown
minus-squareDoom@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up6·12 hours agoThey use dolphins in the ocean. (I wish I was kidding).
that’s what happens with mines and it’s why they’re not fucking legal at all. you need a bunch of giant rats to help comb the land and they still blow farmers arms off 30 years later. imagine if they were fucking underwater
Except that they are completely legal, you are correct.
afaik it is illegal to use them to block commercial waterways which connect two giant international bodies of water
Well, that is against UNCLOS, but while Iran signed it, they did not ratify it. So, kinda not really.
Illegal according to whom? There is no authority for the entire world.
at least the Hague and the UN and a third one that I actually haven’t heard of before. That’s what defines international law right?
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The giant rats would drown
They use dolphins in the ocean. (I wish I was kidding).