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_DeadFred_yesterday at 11:03 PM3 repliesview on HN

"Waters were open before America existed."

The United States formed our Navy because of Islamic Pirate/Slavers causing a lack of open waters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbary_corsairs

"The Barbary threat led directly to the United States founding the United States Navy in March 1794."


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mooktakimyesterday at 11:11 PM

Have you tried reading anything other than Wikipedia

mooktakimyesterday at 11:15 PM

US navy literally doing piracy right now taking ships in international waters, destroying boats in Venezuela and Trump admitting to piracy.

mooktakimyesterday at 11:12 PM

Lol let's not talk about slavery when it comes to the USA

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