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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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[–] L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works 20 points 6 days 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 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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 20 points 6 days 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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[–] Arancello@aussie.zone 16 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Why is it possible to seize assets of weaker countries like Venezuela but not war mongers like Russia and the USA ?

[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago

Bullies never go for hard targets they go after weakness

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[–] toast@retrolemmy.com 16 points 6 days 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

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

He's got the mind of a 4 year-old

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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 13 points 6 days ago

Shame. Also fuck you Amerikkka!

[–] almost1337@lemmy.zip 14 points 6 days ago (16 children)

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.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 19 points 6 days ago (2 children)

The problem is Trump has no credibility. Nobody is going to believe it.

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[–] ProfThadBach@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago (5 children)

What the man. What the fuck are we doing?

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[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 14 points 6 days ago (2 children)

definitely not about the oil!!!

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[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 6 days ago

It's an oily amuse bouche before the land invasion

[–] muusemuuse@sh.itjust.works 5 points 5 days ago

In another timeline, Hegseth confusingly bombed the oil tanker and blamed Biden.

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 11 points 6 days ago (2 children)

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

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 13 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days 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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[–] DylanMc6@lemmy.ml 3 points 5 days ago (2 children)
[–] HereIAm@lemmy.world 6 points 5 days ago

I don't think there is much they can do. No one is going to want to stand up against the US in this, and any escalation from Venezuela would be incredibly costly for them. I suppose there are two things they can hope for; hope the US population throws up enough of a stink the trump changes his mind or wait for something else to come around to occupy his attention.

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[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 points 6 days ago (3 children)

Why didn't they just bomb it?

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