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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      10 hours ago

      Oh, maybe I’m conflating the Taliban with Al-Qaeda a bit (and [for the next part of this] maybe even ISIS too a bit? idk) ~ I’m no Whitney Webb for this stuff, so do use several websearch engines likely to be honest about this stuff for yourself, but…

      Tim Osman? (Whom you may know by another name.)

      Then after that there was that guy they once called a terrorist, then put a suit on and invited to the white house… I’m terrible with names… was it… Ahmed al-Sharaa/Abu Mohammad al-Julani?

      Hard to keep track if not paying close attention.

      Hard to keep paying close attention after seeing the same old ploys and fakery played out over and over.

      “Pick up the gun”

      “You all saw him. He had a gun.”