FROM THE STRAIT OF HORMUZ TO THE NORTH SEA, A GLOBAL MARITIME WAR RAGES AROUND US – AND MORE THAN THE PRICE OF OIL IS AT STAKE | SIMON TISDALL

The collapse of the rules-based order is not confined to the land: we’re imperilled as centuries of maritime cooperation sink beneath the waves The US military campaign to protect merchant shipping from Iranian attacks… Almost exactly 200 years ago, in the period 1825-27, a powerful US naval squadron led by Commodore John Rodgers was sent to the Mediterranean to defend American ships from the depredations of Greek corsairs and pirates.

China | The Guardian reports that the collapse of the rules-based order is not confined to the land: we’re imperilled as centuries of maritime cooperation sink beneath the waves The US military campaign to protect merchant shipping from Iranian attacks…

The report adds: Almost exactly 200 years ago, in the period 1825-27, a powerful US naval squadron led by Commodore John Rodgers was sent to the Mediterranean to defend American ships from the depredations of Greek corsairs and pirates.

For all the new-minted republic’s brave talk of liberty, the US squadron did not assist Greece’s ongoing “regime change” struggle for independence from the Ottoman empire.

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