Mastodawn

You're probably hearing a lot from Marco Rubio and the US State Department about international law and the Strait of Hormuz, and that Iran cannot legally close the Strait. Under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea, that's true!

There's just one problem.

The US never ratified that treaty.

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AJD

@theleftistlawyer which is to say that simply, there's a major fictional component in international law. The amount of ammo dictates more than the amount of text. This applies not just to the Persian Gulf, but everywhere.