Here we go. We just seized a Venezuelan oil tanker.

[aviator]

Trump is trying very hard to get an American hurt so he can attack Venezuela. The good thing is it will be a very, very short operation, a week or less. He must secretly be talking to Bolton

https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/trump-administration-seizes-oil-tanker-off-venezuela-coast-us-officials-say-2025-12-10/

[Pogo]

Maduro isn't stupid. He isn't going to give Trump a reason to invade.

[merc]

Maduro isn't stupid. He isn't going to give Trump a reason to invade.

Agreed .
I don't know the intel the CIA , DEA , ATF
and the FBI has that gets back to Trump ,
but the US gubmint seems to have no
shortage of rats on Maduro and the cartels ..

MERC

[dinkydow]

With USN aircraft carriers, Amphibious assault ships, destroyers, etc., all a piss length from your coast and your dope smuggling cigarette boats being pummeled into flotsam by Hellfire missiles from attack helicopters AND your cocaine & heroin export business being shut down on the sea lanes by said USN warships... You walk slowly and in a non threatening manner...unless you want to die in a spectacular flash of light and fury.

It is, after all the Gulf of America and there is the Monroe Doctrine.

[remus]

The siezing of a ship and saying you are going to keep the oil without actually being at war with the destination country could be thought of as piracy. yes or no.

[merc]

The siezing of a ship and saying you are going to keep the oil without actually being at war with the destination country could be thought of as piracy. yes or no.

🤔

Sounds like it

🤔

[rto]

The siezing of a ship and saying you are going to keep the oil without actually being at war with the destination country could be thought of as piracy. yes or no.

It's OK when Trump does it.

[Solid Snake]

Was the tanker actually hauling oil, or some other....substance?

[aviator]

Maduro isn't stupid. He isn't going to give Trump a reason to invade.

He is not the brightest bulb in the box either, he was a loud mouth bus driver friend of Chavez with no formal education.

[10-32]

The siezing of a ship and saying you are going to keep the oil without actually being at war with the destination country could be thought of as piracy. yes or no.

Its sanctioned oil on a "ghost" ship circumventing the sanctions. Its fair game. It was destined for Cuba to then launder it to China outside of sanctions.

[Sanders]

Skipper Tanker Revealed

The oil tanker seized by the US military this week had been carrying sanctioned oil from Iran to Cuba and had a history of hiding its location, according to a maritime analytics firm.

The company claims that for at least 80 days over the past two years, the tanker known as “Skipper” engaged in spoofing—a practice of falsifying location data in violation of a UN maritime treaty. Skipper's last known port call was Iran, where it allegedly arrived in July after visits to Iraq and the United Arab Emirates. Analysts say the ship loaded at least 1.1 million barrels of crude oil last month after engaging in rare ship-to-ship transfers.

The vessel is owned by Marshall Islands-based Triton Navigation Corp., which the US says is run by Russian oil magnate Viktor Artemov. It is operated by a Nigeria-based company and flies a Guyana flag, though Guyana maintains it is not registered there.

See lawmakers' reactions to the ship's seizure here.

https://join1440.com/newsletter/disney-ai-bet-nascar-settlement-and-the-science-of-dreaming

[dinkydow]

Take their gas and stomp their ass.

[aviator]

What's Cuba going to do with crude oil? The only refinery in the island by the Havana's Harbor barely works, it's like 70 years old and in desperate state of repairs. Spends more time off than on.

[GARANDNUT]

Oh lets all clutch our pearls because we took Maduro's oil. But but but international law and shit. That was embargoed oil trying to get around the embargo. Now its ours. Refine it so I can put more gas in my car.

BTW, Nice piece of work by the Coast Guard.

[dinkydow]

Oh lets all clutch our pearls because we took Maduro's oil. But but but international law and shit. That was embargoed oil trying to get around the embargo. Now its ours. Refine it so I can put more gas in my car.

BTW, Nice piece of work by the Coast Guard.

Hats off to "The puddle pirates."