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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.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 8 points 2 days ago
[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 14 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Next time Iran or the Houtis steal a tanker, they can point at the US and smile.

[–] aeternum@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 days ago

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

[–] Bababasti@feddit.org 29 points 3 days ago

It’s time to hit the button again

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 54 points 3 days ago

Remember, USA is against piracy lmao

[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 56 points 3 days ago

Fucking terrorist country

[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 169 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (3 children)

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?

[–] DoucheBagMcSwag@lemmy.dbzer0.com 53 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (12 children)

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

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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 203 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Huh, I wonder why they seized it instead of shooting it like the others? It couldn't possibly be for the oil, right?

[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 47 points 3 days ago (5 children)

I mean, I know what your point is, but can we actually just be thankful that they did not in fact blow up an oil tanker and spill all that into the sea?

[–] prex@aussie.zone 33 points 3 days ago (5 children)

Just tow it outside the environment.

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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 19 points 2 days ago

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the USA has stooped to the same low level as the Somali Pirates.

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (3 children)

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"

[–] Digit@lemmy.wtf 15 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Taliban

Remember when the CIA funded and armed what became the Taliban?

Remember when the CIA had their guy running the Taliban?

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[–] P1k1e@lemmy.world 13 points 3 days ago

Y'all Queda

[–] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 13 points 3 days ago (2 children)

USA doing the most USA thing possible

Lemmitor: WHAT ARE WE, A BUNCH OF MUSLIMS?!!

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[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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.

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 46 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Welcome to the sixteenth century! When Queen Elizabeth couldn't afford to go to war against Spain so created ‘letters of marque’ which legalised piracy against Spain and its empire. Single handedly created the pirate economy.

Then, welcome to the eighteenth century, when america created the fiction of the Barbary Corsairs to legalise american piracy of the atlantic trade.

Isnt it Mark Twain who states that history rhymes?

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[–] CummandoX@lemmy.world 15 points 3 days ago

2 two things america likes most: oil and drugs. No wonder they had to do it

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 29 points 3 days ago

The tanker was full of fentanOIL…

[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 100 points 4 days ago (3 children)

Let me guess... It was carrying drugs? Just packed full of cocaine? Can't wait to hear the justification for this one.

[–] dugmeup@lemmy.world 46 points 4 days ago (2 children)
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[–] Matombo@feddit.org 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (14 children)

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?

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 77 points 3 days ago (3 children)

An oil tanker...full of drugs?

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 88 points 4 days ago (5 children)

“Where’s my Nobel Peace Prize?”

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 25 points 3 days ago (7 children)

Time to determine on who's command this was done, and follow down the complete chain to the bottom.

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[–] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (1 children)
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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 34 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Well at least we know the real reason for the murders now. Why it it always the most greedy, predictable cause?

[–] aesthelete@lemmy.world 21 points 3 days ago

Dude has been saying for 20 years that we should've stolen Iraq's oil. Yet somehow everyone acts surprised when he does pretty predictable things like this.

[–] kieron115@startrek.website 9 points 2 days ago (2 children)

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!

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[–] molestme247@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Jesus Christ trump fie already you old fuck

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[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 41 points 3 days ago (4 children)

So we are Iran now. Lol this country has fallen so low.

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 25 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The time Iran stole a US oil tanker was in response to the US stealing one of their oil tankers.

This is how America has always acted.

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[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 46 points 4 days ago

definitely not about the oil!!!

[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 43 points 3 days ago (3 children)

Ruh-roh. Trump and Hegseth forgot the US has a 100% losing record against countries that start with V.

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (4 children)

Vietnam lost over a million of its people during the US invasion and occupation. It's all cutesy and smug to tally this as a Big L for Team USA. But I don't think anyone in that country values the W/L record over the hundreds of thousands of family members, friends, and other loved ones who died to feed the American war machine's rapacious appetite.

That's before we even talk about the ecological damage that haunts Vietnam to this day. Or the deaths in Laos and Cambodia racked up in collateral. Or the tenuous diplomatic relationships between the various South Pacific neighbors based on Cold War grudges, which have re-emerged as a shooting war between Thailand and Cambodia just last month.

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 37 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Surprised they didn't just blow it up. I guess we're doing piracy now.

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