They called them pirates.
They called them outlaws.
They called them enemies of civilization.
But the men flying the black flag
were simply doing what empires do.
The difference is empires have lawyers.
From the letter of marque to the executive order signed!
State-sanctioned plunder with a legal cover designed!
The Golden Age of piracy was never truly dead!
It just moved to Washington and painted itself red!
The US Navy boards your vessel on the open sea!
Civil forfeiture laws replacing piracy!
No letter of marque — just a sanctions decree!
The star-spangled corsair taking what it wants for free!
The UN Convention on the Law of the Sea — ratified by all but one!
The law of the sea means nothing when you own every gun!
American exceptionalism — the rules apply to you!
But the corsair does whatever the corsair wants to do!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
FLYING THE STARS AND STRIPES!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
PLUNDER DRESSED UP NICE!
The Iranian tanker seized in international water!
The Venezuelan gold taken like a lamb to the slaughter!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
THE JOLLY ROGER FLIES!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
BEHIND THE EMPIRE’S EYES!
The BRICS rebellion building what the dollar cannot stop!
The dark fleet sailing while the petrodollar starts to drop!
Ghost ships moving oil through every sanction and the threat!
The world is done complying with a system built on debt!
The ghost fleet narrative criminalizing those who dare to sail!
The stateless label stripping every ship behind the veil!
China — Russia — India — Iran are drawing a new line!
The star-spangled corsair running out of ocean and out of time!
Operation Prosperity Guardian — protecting whose trade?
A million-dollar missile for a thousand-dollar drone hand-made!
The cost of dominance breaking what it claimed to defend!
The pirate empire spending what it cannot afford to spend!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
FLYING THE STARS AND STRIPES!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
PLUNDER DRESSED UP NICE!
The world is raising anchor on a system built to fail!
The multipolar tide is coming in behind the veil!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
THE FRACTURE LINE IS DRAWN!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
THE PETRODOLLAR DAWN IS GONE!
Civil forfeiture applied to foreign sovereign ships!
The profit funneled straight into the US treasury drips!
Freedom of navigation asserting dominance disguised as trade!
The right of visit boarding vessels in the legal grey!
Operation Southern Spear Venezuelan blockade twenty-six!
The Majestic X seizure petrodollar politics and tricks!
Ghost fleet narrative criminalizing every ship that dares!
The stateless label stripping legitimacy from those who dare!
Sanctions as the letter of marque economic piracy today!
Whistleblower mariners exposing naval aggression on the deep!
The star-spangled corsair taking what it cannot buy or keep!
The Strait of Hormuz thirty miles of contested chokepoint power!
The Red Sea burning through a billion dollars every hour!
The BRICS rebellion building what the dollar cannot stop!
The isolation of the corsair as the empire starts to drop!
When might makes right the rules belong to those with guns!
But the multipolar world is rising before the corsair runs!
The new maritime treaty applying law to everyone!
The final horizon closing on the star-spangled one!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
FLYING THE STARS AND STRIPES!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
PLUNDER DRESSED UP NICE!
The world is raising anchor — the fracture line is real —
The corsair cannot plunder what it can no longer steal!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
THE JOLLY ROGER FALLS!
PIRATES OF THE HIGH SEA!
THE MULTIPOLAR WORLD CALLS!
Every empire called its enemies pirates.
Every corsair called its plunder law.
The black flag and the stars and stripes
are cut from the same cloth.
Who writes the history.
Who controls the sea.