Comment by _DeadFred_

3 hours ago

"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."

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