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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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[–] CircaV@lemmy.ca 13 points 1 week ago

Shame. Also fuck you Amerikkka!

[–] ThePantser@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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

[–] logicbomb@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week 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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[–] neuromorph@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

So what determines if oil is being used by terrorists? Hella vague

[–] Asafum@feddit.nl 7 points 1 week ago

A little on the nose, no?

It's like a complete package, the actual visual representation of what they want to do with Venezuela.

[–] blimthepixie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 week ago

It's an oily amuse bouche before the land invasion

[–] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Why didn't they just bomb it?

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[–] MushuChupacabra@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago
[–] ohlaph@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

Sigh... That's not good...

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Whelp that's a casus belli…

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[–] DaddleDew@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

They're going to find $50 worth of weed in one of the sailor's personal quarters and claim that the multi millon dollar tanker carrying millions worth of crude oil was a drug running vessel.

Immediately proves what the war is really about

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