Newly More Aggressive Pirates Even More Aggressive Now

I told you how pirates are expanding their range of operations and thus the threat zone to merchant shipping. Well, now it seems pirates are using hijacked merchant vessels as motherships in order to enable a more aggressive posture, putting more ships and crews in greater peril.

And of course, the world's navies are still acting like a bunch of silly traffic cops, warning ships to avoid danger zones...“The captured ships at sea will be closely monitored by the navies and their positions will be made public. This allows other vessels to avoid known areas of operations of these merchant vessel-borne groups."

What's wrong with killing these MFs, sinking their own motherships, and taking back hijacked ships by force? Are we that rich, fat, and lazy that we can let these civilizational pests disrupt global trade, steal tens of millions of dollars of our private property, and threaten innocent seafarers just making a living? Who is the namby-pamby in charge here? I find it hard to believe that the Chinese navy would hold back on putting these jackwagons on the sea floor. What gives?