In real life, the universally recognized UN standard for territorial waters stands at twelve nautical miles, though there are certain nations such as Somalia which bring that up to 200 nautical miles. However, there is and will never be a true UN organization of NS due to the sheer amount of nations on II (which lets me get away with all sorts of WMD warfare and enhanced interrogation
). Equally, we can't RP if we don't have common rules and gentlemen's agreements between us- for the sake of this post, I'd estimate the most commonly agreed upon upper limit for naval borders as a nation's underwater continental shelves. If there was a scale on IYF's map, I don't remember it and underwater geological features certainly weren't, ahem, featured. In the end, it depends more on how many nations recognize those territorial claims that makes them substantial. There are 3 main goals in the IFC- global security and stability, the enforcement of basic civil rights and liberties and finally, the growing development and prosperity of other nations through international trade. I doubt IYF's actually broken any of the resolutions, but what he's doing is certainly in flagrant violation of their spirit. It would certainly be interesting to see what would happen if the Ausitorians sent an armed naval convoy through anyway.
Although I like how you interpret your understanding toward SACTO.
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