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US seizes tanker near Venezuela, Trump says
- techblueberry 10mo agoA tanker filled with… drugs? Is there a why here?
- jleyank 10mo agoI saw what might be the honest reason mentioned on a political blog... "Because we can."
- quantified 10mo agoWe can only hope.
- ArcHound 10mo agoHello, I am from overseas. Can someone please explain to me why would they do that? What is the goal, what is the plan, what is the intent? Thanks for any comments, I am utterly confused.
- sigmar 10mo ago>In his 2019 memoir, The Threat, former Deputy Director of the FBI, Andrew McCabe, quotes Trump as saying of Venezuela "That’s the country we should be going to war with, they have all that oil and they’re right on our back door.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasion_of_Venezuela https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proposed_United_States_invasio...
- ycombinatrix 10mo agoThe USA is going to war over oil again.
- lawn 10mo agoThe new world order that Trump wants to see: It is the right of the strong to take from the weak. Trump sees oil. Trump takes oil. Simple really.
- porridgeraisin 10mo agoReally? "see oil take oil" was not done by previous admins at all? The entire US economy including your money depends on it, don't wash off all blame onto one politician. [I am not american and don't care for US politics] To be clear, not saying blame falls on _you_, but that this is a defining feature of america as a country - for the duration of our lifetimes at least. There is absolutely nothing surprising here and this was easily predictable years in advance.
- stevenalowe 10mo ago"It was seized for a very good reason," he [Trump] says, without offering further detail. Perhaps because he really really really wants to start a war which will allow him to invoke emergency powers before he gets impeached again
- ChrisArchitect 10mo ago[dupe] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222915 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46222915