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.
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the USA has stooped to the same low level as the Somali Pirates.
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!
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.
2 two things america likes most: oil and drugs. No wonder they had to do it
In another timeline, Hegseth confusingly bombed the oil tanker and blamed Biden.
Remember, USA is against piracy lmao
Fucking terrorist country
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”
Y’all Queda
Taliban
Remember when the CIA funded and armed what became the Taliban?
Remember when the CIA had their guy running the Taliban?
Who was there guy that ran it? Never heard that one before.
Tom Hanks.
USA doing the most USA thing possible
Lemmitor: WHAT ARE WE, A BUNCH OF MUSLIMS?!!
Lemmings
Oilllll
The tanker was full of fentanOIL…
Time to determine on who’s command this was done, and follow down the complete chain to the bottom.
And do what exactly? They aren’t going to get punished for it, so what’s the fucking point?
To give them a medal of course
Why? The one giving the order on the top is ultimately responsible. Insubordination against king Donald of Orange the First will probably get you court martialed and hanged…
Following illegal commands is no legal protection. See: Nuremberg trials.
Yes it is. See: Vietnam
not the point, though. The Cowards are using him as a shield. They have been for years. They are every bit as much to blame as he is (and he absolutely is to blame, just not the only one). Once this all falls apart they will say it was all his idea and blame him for everything, to avoid criminal repercussions. People will be so happy to see the king fall that they will give all of The Cowards immunity just to get rid of him, and the cycle will continue.
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?
Fack.
I want off Mr. Bones’ Wild Ride already.
No that was George Lucas
Pirates of the Caribbean!
It’s an oily amuse bouche before the land invasion
So piracy?
we need to organize a bit harder, everyone. seriously!
does anyone think i should study a bit more on socialist theory, and is there any way i can study in layperson’s terms without losing focus?
You all are sleep walking into another forever war nobody wants. I implore everyone to read your own and Latin American history from the last 50 years. It’s not taught.
https://read.dukeupress.edu/books/book/901/The-School-of-the-AmericasMilitary-Training-and (Ask Anna for a copy.)
Venezuela
Name: Army Commander in Chief Efrain Vasquez and General Ramirez Poveda
Country: Venezuela
Dates/courses: Attended the SOA in 1988; 1972
Info: Both Vasquez and Poveda helped to lead a failed coup in Venezuela in April of 2002, despite supposedly receiving training at the SOA that encourages respect for democracy and civilian governments. Otto Reich, then Assistant Secretary of State for Western Hemisphere Affairs, shared his support for the coup and a new government, and in the same year was appointed as a WHINSEC Board of Visitor member to “oversee” democracy and human rights curriculum, as well as operations at the school. Reich met with these SOA graduates prior to the coup and advised business leader Pedro Carmona, who subsequently seized the presidency.
Name: General Ramon Davila Guillen
Country: Venezuela
Dates/courses: Attended the SOA in 1967 for Irregular Warfare training
Info: General Guillen was indicted in November 1996 in connection with a shipment of one ton of cocaine into Miami in 1990, which he says was authorized by the CIA in an effort to catch drug dealers. In 1993, the CIA called the shipment “a regrettable incident” and dismissed the CIA agent involved. (CAP, 9/21/97)
do you think i should study a bit more socialist theory, and is there any way i can study in layperson’s terms without losing focus quickly?
Organize against what, exactly?
The way I see it, it’s two assholes fighting. Both suck and are responsible of crisis and death of their own country people. Let them fight, then. Though I know Venezuela doesn’t stand a chance, unfortunately.
It wouldn’t be a fight, it would be a massacre. Untold thousands dead, millions of refugees. Knowing this, how could you possibly wish for it?
Whatever the situation is in Venezula, it’s not going to be a good thing for America to get entangled.
Hussein was a pretty bad dude, but our intervention in Iraq ultimately was bad for America and didn’t exactly make things in Iraq better.
Replying to your shit take as soap box to answer your question and remind everyone that one the things we should be organizing is a GENERAL STRIKE
Congratulations to Portugal for committing to a GENERAL STRIKE and gaining massive leverage: https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/sustainable-finance-reporting/portugal-general-strike-stalls-transport-closes-schools-labour-reform-protest-2025-12-11/
do you think i’m a sh*tlib who thinks biden should’ve gotten re-elected? NOT assuming anyone, just asking. seriously!
Ah yes you are displaying the kind of intelligence the US military favours in its recruits. Non at all.
I won’t say my grammar is perfect, but I do try not to misspell things and insult other people’s intelligence at the same time.
you’re aware who does the actual fighting and whom the bombs will be raining on??
would there a marxist revolution against both maduro and trump in venezuela? NOT repeating any US state department talking points (looking at you, hexbear!), just asking. seriously!
Why would there be a Marxist revolution in Venezuela if they already have a Bolivarian revolution going on? Venezuela is an extremely grassroots country, more than 10% of the state budget is allocated to local committees to spend however they democratically desire from what I gather. Tens of thousands of Venezuelans are actually enlisting as volunteers this past month to the country’s militias to defend the country from possible American invasion.
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
Remember
It looked like he thought no one had ever thought of it before, and that he was a genius.
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.
I’m starting to get the impression that a large fraction of Americans have lustful thoughts at the idea of mass murdering civilians (including children) as well as at the idea of their “leaders” having sex with children.
Theirs is a diseased relationship with power.
We are a nation that really has never given a crap about bombing civilians en masse. Hell, President Obama, whom many still revere, dropped 20,000 bombs just in the last year of his presidency and killed an American citizen in Iraq ordering a bombing as well.
At one point President Obama had the definition of “enemy combatant” be changed to “Any man between the ages of 16 and 60” because the numbers of “collateral” civilian casualties from the drone attacks he ordered were so bad.
Yup. Obama loved bloodying his hands almost as much as Donald Trump and Joe Biden.
are you talking about the bunker buster in Iran?
No, this was in his first term.
Here’s an article on it: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39598046
But yeah, every single news outlet sang his praises after this. I specifically remember being on the treadmill in the gym, watching CNN, and I’ll quote Fareed Zakaria: “In that moment, he became president of the United States.”
This country loves war to the point of absolute absurdity.
same tactic bush used to get elected, make a ware gives brownie points to the election in thier favor.
Do you have a link to that clip of the shifty eyes?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Military/comments/1mtzau0/trump_to_zelenskyy_during_the_war_you_cant_have/
Sorry this was the only place I could find it fast
Tradition!
Can it get any more American this?
Yes. Yes, it can.
