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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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[–] Mk23simp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 215 points 1 month ago (8 children)

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

[–] Taiatari@lemmynsfw.com 95 points 1 month ago (5 children)

In contrast to people, oil has a market value.

[–] frongt@lemmy.zip 25 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Never heard of human trafficking?

Oil is just a lot more profitable and easier to work with.

[–] chaogomu@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

Trump has plenty of experience as a human trafficker, but those were underage models in his little fake modeling agency, Trump Model Management, which was a friendly competitor to Epstein's MC2 Model Management.

But I can understand him not wanting to draw on that experience here. That and Hegaeth is a murderous fuck, and he was the one awake enough to give the order.

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[–] iAmTheTot@sh.itjust.works 46 points 1 month ago (13 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 34 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Just tow it outside the environment.

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[–] corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The deep water horizon did not show America too concerned about oil in the Gulf. I'm not sure they care where it goes if they can't have it.

What, have they escalated to blockading Cuba now?

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[–] SpiceDealer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 175 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 54 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] KoboldCoterie@pawb.social 107 points 1 month ago (4 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 49 points 1 month ago (2 children)
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[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago

It was carrying drugs?

This type of drug has several street names, among them, black gold and Texas tea.

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[–] Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 92 points 1 month ago (1 children)

“Where’s my Nobel Peace Prize?”

[–] pelespirit@sh.itjust.works 22 points 1 month ago (4 children)

All you get is a soccer peace prize.

[–] kindred@lemmy.dbzer0.com 20 points 1 month ago

*Football ball-fondling prize

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[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 80 points 1 month ago (3 children)

An oil tanker...full of drugs?

[–] Agent641@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Petro-terrorists.

Anything's ok as long as you ad hyphen terrorist to the person, place or thing.

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[–] clot27@lemmy.zip 58 points 1 month ago

Fucking terrorist country

[–] nuko147@lemmy.world 55 points 1 month ago

Remember, USA is against piracy lmao

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 51 points 1 month ago (2 children)

definitely not about the oil!!!

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[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 47 points 1 month 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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[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 47 points 1 month 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 36 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] Lushed_Lungfish@lemmy.ca 27 points 1 month ago

Actually the US has a shockingly short list of wars they have outright won where they were NOT part of an international coalition.

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[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 43 points 1 month ago (8 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"

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[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Actually, hearing about this, I'm now surprised that our military didn't stop the fishing boats first to siphon all of the gasoline out of their tanks before blowing them up and murdering their crew.

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[–] molestme247@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Jesus Christ trump fie already you old fuck

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[–] not_that_guy05@lemmy.world 40 points 1 month ago (4 children)

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

[–] Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz 26 points 1 month 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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[–] Psythik@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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 22 points 1 month 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.

[–] Mvlad88@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago (1 children)
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[–] Matombo@feddit.org 34 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month 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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[–] LemmyBruceLeeMarvin@lemmy.ml 31 points 1 month ago

VERY COOL AND LEGAL

[–] WanderWisley@lemmy.world 31 points 1 month ago

The tanker was full of fentanOIL…

[–] Bababasti@feddit.org 29 points 1 month ago

It’s time to hit the button again

[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 28 points 1 month ago (2 children)

“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening so you will be seeing that later and you will be talking about that later with other people.”

He speaks like a child, a pernicious little child

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[–] Treczoks@lemmy.world 27 points 1 month 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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[–] Gammelfisch@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 22 points 1 month 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.

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