US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump’s four-month pressure campaign against the South American country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro.
USA Piracy
Next time Iran or the Houtis steal a tanker, they can point at the US and smile.
Nah. The US can do what they want, but don’t those other countries DARE fall out of line. That’s why the Ukraine was forced to give up nukes, but the USA is fine to keep theirs
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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the USA has stooped to the same low level as the Somali Pirates.
It’s time to hit the button again
what should venezuela do?
resist
I don’t think there is much they can do. No one is going to want to stand up against the US in this, and any escalation from Venezuela would be incredibly costly for them. I suppose there are two things they can hope for; hope the US population throws up enough of a stink the trump changes his mind or wait for something else to come around to occupy his attention.
US Navy in the Red Sea:
We are conducting freedom of movement and trade, anti piracy operations.
US Coast Guard in the Caribbean:
Look at me, look at me.
I am the pirate now.
true pirates get drunk off rum and find treasure
Remember, USA is against piracy lmao
Fucking terrorist country
2 two things america likes most: oil and drugs. No wonder they had to do it
USA turns into Taliban country. Taliban originaly is “political and militant organization with an ideology comprising elements of the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism and Pashtun nationalism”, now is just “political and militant organization with an ideology comprising elements of the MAGA movement of Evangelical fundamentalism and WASP nationalism”
Y’all Queda
Taliban
Remember when the CIA funded and armed what became the Taliban?
Remember when the CIA had their guy running the Taliban?
Who was there guy that ran it? Never heard that one before.
Oh, maybe I’m conflating the Taliban with Al-Qaeda a bit (and [for the next part of this] maybe even ISIS too a bit? idk) ~ I’m no Whitney Webb for this stuff, so do use several websearch engines likely to be honest about this stuff for yourself, but…
Tim Osman? (Whom you may know by another name.)
Then after that there was that guy they once called a terrorist, then put a suit on and invited to the white house… I’m terrible with names… was it… Ahmed al-Sharaa/Abu Mohammad al-Julani?
Hard to keep track if not paying close attention.
Hard to keep paying close attention after seeing the same old ploys and fakery played out over and over.
“Pick up the gun”
“You all saw him. He had a gun.”
Tom Hanks.
USA doing the most USA thing possible
Lemmitor: WHAT ARE WE, A BUNCH OF MUSLIMS?!!
Oilllll
Lemmings
Might not be able to buy groceries but at least we have $3.00/gallon, or $0.80/liter, fuel for our planet destroying pickup trucks!
80c/L is cheap. It’s sometimes 1.80$/L here
Right, that’s what I’m saying. We have cheap gas/petrol but food prices here are skyrocketing.
The tanker was full of fentanOIL…
Starting a nonsense war under the guise of “spreading democracy” just to take their oil reserves so that rednecks back home can pollute the air and warm the earth with their oversized trucks. Can it get any more American this?
He wants to declare war on Venezuela next year (or hopes that he can agitate them enough to commit an act of terror on the US) so he can deny midterm elections because he knows the GOP majority will potentially be cooked
Remember how much his eyes shifted when he was told that elections can be delayed due to a country being at war
He’s not 100% wrong.
I’m sure he remembers fondly how every single news network praised him profusely when he dropped the MOAB on Afghanistan.
He knows very well how much the US loves a warmongering president.
are you talking about the bunker buster in Iran?
No, this was in his first term.
Here’s an article on it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39598046
But yeah, every single news outlet sang his praises after this. I specifically remember being on the treadmill in the gym, watching CNN, and I’ll quote Fareed Zakaria: “In that moment, he became president of the United States.”
This country loves war to the point of absolute absurdity.
I’m starting to get the impression that a large fraction of Americans have lustful thoughts at the idea of mass murdering civilians (including children) as well as at the idea of their “leaders” having sex with children.
Theirs is a diseased relationship with power.
It’s not like the Pilgrim Fathers weren’t a bunch of religious nutjobs
We are a nation that really has never given a crap about bombing civilians en masse. Hell, President Obama, whom many still revere, dropped 20,000 bombs just in the last year of his presidency and killed an American citizen in Iraq ordering a bombing as well.
At one point President Obama had the definition of “enemy combatant” be changed to “Any man between the ages of 16 and 60” because the numbers of “collateral” civilian casualties from the drone attacks he ordered were so bad.
Yup. Obama loved bloodying his hands almost as much as Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
Remember
It looked like he thought no one had ever thought of it before, and that he was a genius.
same tactic bush used to get elected, make a ware gives brownie points to the election in thier favor.
Do you have a link to that clip of the shifty eyes?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1mtzau0/trump_to_zelenskyy_during_the_war_you_cant_have/
Sorry this was the only place I could find it fast
Tradition!
Can it get any more American this?
Yes. Yes, it can.
So who had written “blatent piracy” on his trump bingo card at the beginning of the year? He took almost to the very end to also make you cross out this, but he did.
So, “nuclear test und an uninhabited island” next?
So, “nuclear test und an uninhibited island” next?
Un inhabited?
Edit: apparently you can’t have partial words italicized.
oh please don’t jinx it more then i do
We’ll be lucky if it’s anywhere uninhabited.
We all know he desperately wants to use the nukes for any reason he can come up with. It’s only a matter of time.
It might be the only way to get a boner now when he can’t go to the Epstein’s island anymore.
Boarding ships & enforcing sanctions is not necessarily a bad thing, albeit im missing details on this specific case.
France & Finland have both done this to shadow fleet tankers in recent time as well.
It’s always best to make comments like this when you are missing details. /s
I only said that becasue we’re ALL missing context. The shadow fleet tankers siezed by Europe happened months ago and we have a lot more context. But I left my comment intentionally open-ended incase more context comes out later.
For now, all we know is the Trump administration seized a shadow fleet tanker that was sanctioned by the Biden administration, thereby inforcing decisions made by Biden. Europe has done the same. If you would like to add some meaningful context then please do, it’s an interesting topic.
Yes, indeed, it’s open ended and on the surface it is consistent with a plausible follow through on existing decision.
Though the prospect of suspiciously selective enforcement comes to mind, in the midst of this very specific scenario they decide to execute a seizure that is conveniently adjacent to the boat strike operations.
Go home with your pro-Trump Russian propaganda, Ivan
wtf? Finland & France siezed Russian shadow fleet tankers, an aggressive act against the Putin regime. This vessel is also related to the axis shadow fleet.
Supporting these shadow fleet oil tankers breaking sanctions & financing illegal wars is literally pro-russian. Seizing them is literally an act of aggression AGAINST Russia. You have it completely backwards.
And this tanker was anyway sanctioned by Biden, Trump is now enforcing the biden administration’s sanctions.
- Finland and France aren’t trying to start war when they impound and seize ships.
- Finland and France aren’t actively terrorizing international waters, destroying civilian pleasure craft, and massacring defenseless people.
- Finland and France are democratic countries that adhere to international law whereas the the US is a Nazi rogue state.
Sure, supporting Agent Krasnov’s military policy that will push it further from the EU, good try Ваня
You didn’t address anything I said. Enforcing Biden’s sanctions against Iran/Russia/NK is not pushing anyone further from the EU. The EU has literally sanctioned the Maduro government, and Norway is currently protecting the Venezuelan opposition party.
Enforcing Biden’s sanctions against Iran/Russia/NK is not pushing anyone further from the EU
I mean you are broadcasting that the US determines your foreign policy, whether that’s attractive or not depends on whether a leader’s interests are more closely aligned with America’s or the European unit as a whole.
