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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 9 points 17 hours ago
[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

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

[-] aeternum 5 points 23 hours 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

[-] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 21 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Bababasti@feddit.org 28 points 1 day ago

It’s time to hit the button again

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 points 22 hours ago
[-] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 2 points 16 hours ago
[-] HereIAm@lemmy.world 6 points 22 hours ago

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.

[-] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day 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.

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 2 points 22 hours ago

true pirates get drunk off rum and find treasure

[-] CummandoX@lemmy.world 15 points 1 day ago

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

[-] clot27@lemmy.zip 57 points 1 day ago

Fucking terrorist country

[-] nuko147@lemmy.world 53 points 1 day ago

Remember, USA is against piracy lmao

[-] KulunkelBoom@lemmus.org 3 points 1 day 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?

[-] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 45 points 1 day ago

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"

[-] P1k1e@lemmy.world 13 points 1 day ago

Y'all Queda

[-] Digit@lemmy.wtf 15 points 1 day ago

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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[-] Socialism_Everyday@reddthat.com 19 points 1 day ago

USA doing the most USA thing possible

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

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[-] kieron115@startrek.website 10 points 1 day ago

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!

[-] aeternum 2 points 23 hours ago

80c/L is cheap. It’s sometimes 1.80$/L here

[-] kieron115@startrek.website 3 points 17 hours ago

Right, that’s what I’m saying. We have cheap gas/petrol but food prices here are skyrocketing.

[-] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 30 points 1 day ago

The tanker was full of fentanOIL…

[-] Arancello@aussie.zone 48 points 1 day ago

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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[-] Matombo@feddit.org 34 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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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[-] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 171 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

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?

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[-] Treczoks@lemmy.world 26 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Mk23simp 207 points 2 days ago

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

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[-] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 day ago

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

[-] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 35 points 2 days ago
[-] aeternum 1 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 22 hours ago)

I like free movies

[-] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 80 points 2 days ago

An oil tanker...full of drugs?

[-] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 1 points 22 hours ago

more like a drug tanker

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[-] drmoose@lemmy.world 9 points 1 day ago

I hate trump as anyone else here but reading into this it looks like an absolutely legal and normal procedure?

The ship in question named Skipper was already sanctioned since 2022 for transporting Iranian oil to fund Hezbolah. So minus conflict escalation with Venezuela this seems like a good thing? Hezbolah is an incredibly evil terrorist organization and cutting off it's funding is good.

[-] radiofreebc@lemmy.world 17 points 1 day ago

Sanctioned by the US. This means the ship is free to trade with other countries. It wasn't heading to the US. This is an illegal act.

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[-] titanicx@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 day ago

Sure seems like you read a lot of Israeli propaganda there.

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[-] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 103 points 2 days ago

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

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