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Originally Posted by mynameisjim
P.S. The reason the pirates can take over a big ship is because the captain and crew are told to not engage the pirates or fight the pirates in any way. That's also why they don't hire security or carry guns on the ships...
These pirates are bumbling idiots...The only reason they can hijack ships is because the crews have orders to not fight back.
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The ships are also massive and have a crew of 20 or so.
They are not really told not to engage the pirates, they do have water cannons they can attempt to use and have. They just are well people working on a ship and under the assorted international maritime laws/treaties/etc. are not allowed to be armed as ports do not allow in armed ships.
The pirates are about the same as the underage drug dealers we have in the US with gangs. They are young, uneducated, poor, take all of the risk, and are funded by others. Then of course they get to keep next to nothing in our terms (30 US a month is a lot in that country for many on the coast). So you just have assorted warlords taking advantage of the situations, in essence their country is very much like a US ghetto. Just on a much larger scale - take a few blocks out of Detroit or whatever shit hole location in the US and expand it to the size of their country.
Of course using the military to go in and take out the assorted warlords who are funding the pirates and controlling all of the assorted shit happening in that country would of course accomplish nothing more than a warm feeling for all of a few weeks before that vacuum was refilled by new warlords. We see how well it works here with how we deal with city gangs.
They will begin to adapt. The one that got the huge payoff was the insurance that this will only get worse - not blowing the skulls off of three pirates. Other countries and people showed them that what the were trying works at least some of the time, and now at least one tribe/clan/whatever has millions to work with and that buys a lot of poor ass kids who will risk everything along with a boat to put them in.