A number of different countries have sent navy patrols to the important sea route, but the immensity of the area targeted by the pirates has limited the effect of these few military ships.

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Britain anyway started producing oil in the North Sea; lots of countries in Latin America started looking and finding oil, and of course, russian oil started being very, very profitable.

英国首先在北海开采石油,后来很多拉美国家也开始开采石油了,当然俄罗斯采油收入也是颇丰的

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