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USA on the verge of declaring war on Venezuela

Discussion in 'BBS Hangout: Debate & Discussion' started by astros123, Oct 23, 2025.

  1. The Captain

    The Captain ...and I'm all out of bubblegum

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    I am The Captain now.
     
  2. Rocket River

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    We are officially the Pirates of the Caribbean
    Stealing oil. Boarding ships.

    Rocket River
     
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  3. lionaire

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    International law doesn't matter to Trump if he wants wants to break it. He breaks laws in our country without batting an eye, so it's no different to him if it's something he wants to do.
     
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    They don’t give a **** about whether the boat is actually from Venezuela. Until you realize that facts are not important to them, you won’t understand them. They rely on “their gut” and they have different values.
     
  7. Buck Turgidson

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    Trump: When I left, Venezuela was ready to collapse. We would have taken it over, we would have gotten all that oil.
     
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    Not that it matters, but is their a pretext at least that this is legal?
     
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  9. deb4rockets

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    I guess it depends what hour of the day it is. Their stories change all the time.
     
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    the ever-changing story on the bombing of boats / ships off the Venezuela coast; as i understand it, this is the chronology of the recent attacks on by Trump 2.0

    • in Sept, Trump and his DUI hire
      • announced the bombing of boats off the Ven coast carrying Fentanyl to American
        • only to be informed that's not how Fentanyls are transported to the US
      • side-stepped to say that the boats were carry cocaine heading to the US
        • only to be informed that the boats were heading to Suriname — a small South American country east of Venezuela
        • Secretary of State Marco Rubio told traveling press that the alleged drug boat targeted was “probably headed to Trinidad or some other country in the Caribbean.”
    • on 10 Dec,Trump and his DUI hire
      • the capture of an oil tanker off the Venezuela coast for violation of the Iran oil sanction
     
  11. Buck Turgidson

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    In theory:

    British maritime risk management group Vanguard said the tanker Skipper was believed to have been seized off Venezuela early on Wednesday. The U.S. has imposed sanctions on the tanker for what Washington said was involvement in Iranian oil trading when it was called the Adisa.

    As with everything else in this VZ operation, we will be shown no facts or evidence.
     
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  12. Buck Turgidson

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    It would be cool, if in the future, there's an interesting/important thing you find to post here...

    you don't post a tweet from antiwar.dot.com but instead from an actual source
     
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  13. Nook

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    Fixed it for you.
     
  14. Amiga

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    Dang. The largest oil tanker ever?

    If China’s military seized the largest U.S. oil tanker ever off the coast of Texas, would that be a declaration of war?

    It would not be absolutely hilarious if the POTUS walked us into a war… without realizing it.
     
  15. Buck Turgidson

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    Uh...where did you hear that?
     
  16. Amiga

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    POTUS... absolutely trustworthy
     
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    hey bucko, glad you're focusing on the important things.

    anyways, here's a link to the article that the screenshot is from (the official US Central Command website): https://www.centcom.mil/MEDIA/PRESS...ze-commercial-tanker-in-international-waters/
     
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  20. lionaire

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    you could've done the same thing but you chose to make a slick remark and derail
     

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