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.
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.
So who had written “blatent piracy” on his trump bingo card at the beginning of the year? He took almost to the very end to also make you cross out this, but he did.
So, “nuclear test und an uninhabited island” next?
We’ll be lucky if it’s anywhere uninhabited.
We all know he desperately wants to use the nukes for any reason he can come up with. It’s only a matter of time.
Un inhabited?
Edit: apparently you can’t have partial words italicized.
oh please don’t jinx it more then i do
Boarding ships & enforcing sanctions is not necessarily a bad thing, albeit im missing details on this specific case.
France & Finland have both done this to shadow fleet tankers in recent time as well.
It’s always best to make comments like this when you are missing details. /s
I only said that becasue we’re ALL missing context. The shadow fleet tankers siezed by Europe happened months ago and we have a lot more context. But I left my comment intentionally open-ended incase more context comes out later.
For now, all we know is the Trump administration seized a shadow fleet tanker that was sanctioned by the Biden administration, thereby inforcing decisions made by Biden. Europe has done the same. If you would like to add some meaningful context then please do, it’s an interesting topic.
Yes, indeed, it’s open ended and on the surface it is consistent with a plausible follow through on existing decision.
Though the prospect of suspiciously selective enforcement comes to mind, in the midst of this very specific scenario they decide to execute a seizure that is conveniently adjacent to the boat strike operations.
Go home with your pro-Trump Russian propaganda, Ivan
wtf? Finland & France siezed Russian shadow fleet tankers, an aggressive act against the Putin regime. This vessel is also related to the axis shadow fleet.
Supporting these shadow fleet oil tankers breaking sanctions & financing illegal wars is literally pro-russian. Seizing them is literally an act of aggression AGAINST Russia. You have it completely backwards.
And this tanker was anyway sanctioned by Biden, Trump is now enforcing the biden administration’s sanctions.
Sure, supporting Agent Krasnov’s military policy that will push it further from the EU, good try Ваня
You didn’t address anything I said. Enforcing Biden’s sanctions against Iran/Russia/NK is not pushing anyone further from the EU. The EU has literally sanctioned the Maduro government, and Norway is currently protecting the Venezuelan opposition party.