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April 23, 2019, 11:13:02 PM
Merited by Icygreen (1)

I don't know exactly how international law works, but I think the whole point in having a seastead is not being subjected to any national law. Besieging it would be difficult because supply can come from virtually every state, and kidnapping people in the sea is not a thing a state can do. Anyway, that was not a fortress but a floating bedroom, China is making whole islands in international waters without nobody being able to do shit.

Elwar acted as a free man and a dreamer, and that's far more dangerous to some regimes than a nuclear aircraft carrier (which is in fact able to access international waters all over the world). I hope he is already safe or he will be soon, and that he doesn't give up with his seastead experiments (maybe in different more friendly countries without death penalty and arbitrary justice, that would be better).

Just a couple of years and an old russian nuclear submarine will cost no more than a bitcoin of two (two if with warheads), Thailand will cease to threaten old forum members soon Smiley