In his Tuesday post, Trump referred to President Nicolás Maduro’s government as a “Hostile Regime” and accused it of using oil to “finance themselves” and commit crimes. The Maduro government, in a statement, said Trump’s actions were “grotesque” and “warmongering threats.”
“On his social media, he assumes that Venezuela’s oil, land, and mineral wealth are his property,” the statement said. “Consequently, he demands that Venezuela immediately hand over all its riches. The President of the United States intends to impose, in an utterly irrational manner, a supposed naval blockade on Venezuela with the aim of stealing the wealth that belongs to our nation.”
US lawmakers also expressed outrage.
“A naval blockade is unquestionably an act of war,” Representative Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) said on X following Trump’s post. “A war,” he added, “that the Congress never authorized and the American people do not want.” Castro is a part of a bipartisan group of congressmembers putting forth a resolution to be voted on Thursday in the House, directing the president to end “hostilities” with Venezuela.
Americans are so stupid and immoral they need experts to tell them killing and stealing is illegal.
Not all of us. Some of us are telling the fuckers to stop
You need experts to call theft theft?
Anything to distract from the Epstein files.
You really even need to ask “experts” for this?
No. Some of us know right from wrong
Plausible deniability.
The US Navy are just pirates now.
Every one of those sailors had an obligation to refuse their orders, and chose to not do so.
Which is really deeply ironic, considering the first campaign that made a real name for the USN and the USMC outside of the revolutionary war (as well as the first major campaign outside of the “new world” - that is, very far from the continental US) was against Ottoman Tripolitania, when we stoped paying them bribes that were effectively protection money so they wouldn’t pirate US merchant ships. Hence the lyric: “to the shores of Tripoli” (from the USMC anthem).
Huh, TIL. tbf, ive only heard the line as part of Tom lehrer’s ‘send the marines’ (“to the shores of Tripoli, but not to Mississipoli…”)
Marines’ Hymn. Just saying
The fact that Donald Trump is saying that Venezuela’s oil belongs to them sounds like something from a bad political drama.
In a sensible world, a country that regularly goes to war to get more oil wouldn’t be sabotaging every attempt to reduce its oil consumption. If the stuff’s that hard to get, stop wasting it, and then maybe you won’t need to go to war so often.
they don’t want to maximise oil preservation. they are maximising corporate profit.
I think it makes more sense if you view the country as an addict.
But we like war
Yeah, there is a lot of money to be made
And wasting oil!
From a logical point of view, the US is engaged in hostile acts and uses oil to finance itself….
Legal experts say question of legality of theft is unclear.
Naval blockades sound like a belly- button problem.
Naval blockages
the US needs a naval blockade and severe sanctions.
