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Or just do it 18th Century style: arm the merchant vessels and their crews. Execute suspected pirates immediately on the spot whenever and wherever they are captured. Until quite recently all major powers abided by treaties requiring them to do just this, and piracy was unknown. Navies kill pirates and in cases of repeat offenses shell the port towns from which they operate, and this solves the problem.
Then the Davos types got involved, and the Royal Navy is afraid to shoot at some slobbering IQ-55 nigger waving an RPG in a rowboat for fear that the quangoes will sue them for violating his "human rights," nor can they capture them alive because they will then be provided quango lawyers who will coach them to demand political asylum in the UK.
The result is predictable, and intentional.