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Ulysses founder will o’brien reveals why tiny islands can control surprisingly huge stretches of ocean under maritime law: "Up to 12 nautical miles off the coast is the area that most of your laws apply, and then up to maybe 200 nautical miles is where you have some sort...

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Luke Drago26 天前

@Willob didn’t expect my high school obsession with the UN Law of the Sea to be relevant to an MTS tweet but here we are

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@Willob tiny specks of land in the middle of the ocean securing massive exclusive economic zones just cause of a few scattered atolls is maritime law operating like a total cheat code connected dots over thousands of miles of water give microscopic islands outsized geopolitical leverage.

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