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?
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
He's not 100% wrong.
I'm sure he remembers fondly how every single news network praised him profusely when he dropped the MOAB on Afghanistan.
He knows very well how much the US loves a warmongering president.
are you talking about the bunker buster in Iran?
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.
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.
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?
VERY COOL AND LEGAL
Shame. Also fuck you Amerikkka!
Well at least we know the real reason for the murders now. Why it it always the most greedy, predictable cause?
An oil tanker...full of drugs?
Petro-terrorists.
Anything's ok as long as you ad hyphen terrorist to the person, place or thing.
“Where’s my Nobel Peace Prize?”
Let me guess... It was carrying drugs? Just packed full of cocaine? Can't wait to hear the justification for this one.
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.
Ruh-roh. Trump and Hegseth forgot the US has a 100% losing record against countries that start with V.
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.
Actually the US has a shockingly short list of wars they have outright won where they were NOT part of an international coalition.
It’s time to hit the button again
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the USA has stooped to the same low level as the Somali Pirates.
Sigh... That's not good...
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.
So is the US going to start seizing all the Russia ghost tankers doing the same?
The Chinese ghost fishing fleet too, imo
The phrase "is linked to" should be a massive red flag.
If it was smuggling Iranian oil it would say, "is smuggling Iranian oil", not "is linked to smuggling Iranian oil".
The problem is Trump has no credibility. Nobody is going to believe it.
The US has no credibility, from the USS Maine to the Gulf of Tonkin to this
Surprised they didn't just blow it up. I guess we're doing piracy now.
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.
“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
He's got the mind of a 4 year-old
Why is it possible to seize assets of weaker countries like Venezuela but not war mongers like Russia and the USA ?
Bullies never go for hard targets they go after weakness
Next time Iran or the Houtis steal a tanker, they can point at the US and smile.
Fucking terrorist country
Remember, USA is against piracy lmao
Whelp that's a casus belli…
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