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.
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.
Huh, I wonder why they seized it instead of shooting it like the others? It couldn’t possibly be for the oil, right?
In contrast to people, oil has a market value.
Never heard of human trafficking?
Oil is just a lot more profitable and easier to work with.
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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.
That can be changed. Pretty sure Trump is not opposed to slavery.
I genuinelly believe at least some people in positions of power inside and around the MAGA-Fascist party have plans to make Slavery legal again.
(I would certainly bet that Peter Tiel is one of those).
It is already legal. You just have to be in jail.
You’re not getting paid top dollar for your people? You should see my people guy, he do you a good deal.
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?
Just tow it outside the environment.
That’s space bro. You’re describing outer space
For your contextual enjoyment for the joke you might be missing.
Yes, I did miss this. I’ve seen that video but it’s been forever, forgot how great it is. Thank you
Into another environment.
There is nothing out there - all there is is sea, and birds, and fish.
And 20,000 tonne of burning crude oil.
And, uh, kill all of the innocent people on board. Sorry, I just feel like that should be said.
Well when I had made the comment, there was no news on whether or not they had done that anyway.
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?
We begin to care about it as soon as it shows up as black sandy globs on the beach and sticks to our feet.
We should not be thankful to nazi shit
No. I will not thank them for seizing the ship. That’s a ludicrous suggestion.
That’s not what they said.
It’s equivalent to what they said. If someone comes over and punches you in the head should I be thankful they didn’t stab you?
You can, in fact, be thankful that you weren’t stabbed while also being upset that you were punched. Adults can have more than one emotion at a time. Never heard of a “silver lining”? It’s an idiom for a reason.
Who am I being thankful toward? Who am I giving thanks to in this specific case?
It’s not.
For sure. They shouldn’t have blown up the other boats either, but spilling the oil into the sea would certainly have been bad.
Technically the other ships they blew up spilled oil in the sea.
blowing up a tanker would cause a huge hazard to the area, spilling oil all over the ocean.
When you put it like, that, that sounds like exactly what they’d want off the coast of Venezuela right now.
Venezuelas oil infrastructure is in such bad shape, that oil spills are pretty common. Lake Maracaibo has them on a regular bases.
I can think of a few reasons why the US Navy wouldn’t want to fire high explosives into a contain full of flammable materials, depending on the range of their artillery.
Also definitely possible they’re just doing Privateer shit with Navy assets. I do wonder whether the vessel gets impounded or just escorted to a friendly port in El Salvador or Honduras and quietly re-flagged and titled.
Hegseth issuing letters of marque
They don’t really use actual artillery anymore, it would be missiles from the ship or a plane.