I am reading stuff from Anna for quite some time.

Her so called: "rebuttal" is the least impressive she has produced. And I understand where she is coming from. It would have behooved her if she had said:

"I fail to understand the trick that was played on us all in 1776".

With this hit piece, she goes into a different territory. However, by using this type of colloquial, she is (unwittingly maybe?) indicating that the vessel theory is correct.

I guess she still has some reading to do:

Vatel - Law of Nations

but especially:

Mare Librum - Free sea written by Hugo Grotius.