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2nd video is not of somali pirates. The boats were sitting still. It was just the Russian navy doing target practice.

Seriously, in history, the American military took care of pirates. Note the Barbary wars where Americans invaded North Africa and destroyed the pirates. Now, with American forces preoccupied in the Middle East, Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan, they know that they have free reign so the African pirates have started to attack again. Since the Americans are no longer taking care of pirates, the Russians and Chinese have been stepping in. The Chinese built their first aircraft carrier. Would they have built the aircraft carrier and other new naval vessels if there were no piracy threat to Chinese shipping? Probably not. Our addiction to oil and resultant defense of mideast interests have caused a global naval arms buildup that now threatens American global naval superiority. This is not good.

We should all start using less oil.