Reply #79: Sophistry: a definition does not "allow" anything. [View All]

It never does. By international law, you cannot extend a blockade into international waters. Period.

Moreover, US navy regs do not apply internationally, except for the power the US has deemed for itself in defiance of international law, or in the way it will treat a blockade.

Does it occur to you that Israel has attacked a NATO power? Is the US going to wipe its ass with the NATO treaty if Turkey goes to war over this? or is it going to lecture Turkey with laughable legalistic theories about how blockades should be respected according to how we figured it out in the US Navy Regulations?

Perhaps you should point your cynicism just a little more toward Israel, too. What they did here was terribly cynical.