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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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[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 22 points 5 days ago

A little on the nose, no?

It's like a complete package, the actual visual representation of what they want to do with Venezuela.

[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 16 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Why is it possible to seize assets of weaker countries like Venezuela but not war mongers like Russia and the USA ?

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago

Bullies never go for hard targets they go after weakness

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[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 15 points 4 days ago (16 children)

According to the NY Times the tanker in question is flying under a flag where it is not registered, and is linked to smuggling Iranian oil.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 18 points 4 days ago (2 children)

The problem is Trump has no credibility. Nobody is going to believe it.

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[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 3 days ago

In another timeline, Hegseth confusingly bombed the oil tanker and blamed Biden.

Cool I guess we’re doing piracy now 🤦‍♂️

[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 16 points 4 days ago
[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 12 points 4 days ago

Shame. Also fuck you Amerikkka!

[–] HappySkullsplitter@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago

Immediately proves what the war is really about

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 4 days ago

It's an oily amuse bouche before the land invasion

[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

They're going to find $50 worth of weed in one of the sailor's personal quarters and claim that the multi millon dollar tanker carrying millions worth of crude oil was a drug running vessel.

[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (4 children)

What the man. What the fuck are we doing?

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[–] AltheaHunter@lemmy.blahaj.zone 10 points 4 days ago
[–] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 2 points 3 days ago

Now we get to the meat of the matter.

The arabs hire trump muscle to knock off the Venezuelan government putting the arabs in charge, this gives the arabs unlimited unrestricted gulf drilling access.

The Saudis have run out or are almost out of oil. They like making billions for doing nothing and do not want the big bucks to stop.

So the gulf is drilled unrestricted, the oil shipped up to east Houston refineries, then shipped out to the nations paying the most for it.

What a deal.

When will trump start working for Americans?

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