Next time Iran or the Houtis steal a tanker, they can point at the US and smile.
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Nah. The US can do what they want, but don’t those other countries DARE fall out of line. That’s why the Ukraine was forced to give up nukes, but the USA is fine to keep theirs
USA Piracy
Remember, USA is against piracy lmao
Fucking terrorist country

It’s time to hit the button again
Starting a nonsense war under the guise of "spreading democracy" just to take their oil reserves so that rednecks back home can pollute the air and warm the earth with their oversized trucks. Can it get any more American this?
He wants to declare war on Venezuela next year (or hopes that he can agitate them enough to commit an act of terror on the US) so he can deny midterm elections because he knows the GOP majority will potentially be cooked
Remember how much his eyes shifted when he was told that elections can be delayed due to a country being at war
Huh, I wonder why they seized it instead of shooting it like the others? It couldn't possibly be for the oil, right?
I mean, I know what your point is, but can we actually just be thankful that they did not in fact blow up an oil tanker and spill all that into the sea?
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, the USA has stooped to the same low level as the Somali Pirates.
USA turns into Taliban country. Taliban originaly is "political and militant organization with an ideology comprising elements of the Deobandi movement of Islamic fundamentalism and Pashtun nationalism", now is just "political and militant organization with an ideology comprising elements of the MAGA movement of Evangelical fundamentalism and WASP nationalism"
Taliban
Remember when the CIA funded and armed what became the Taliban?
Remember when the CIA had their guy running the Taliban?
Y'all Queda
USA doing the most USA thing possible
Lemmitor: WHAT ARE WE, A BUNCH OF MUSLIMS?!!
Welcome to the sixteenth century! When Queen Elizabeth couldn't afford to go to war against Spain so created ‘letters of marque’ which legalised piracy against Spain and its empire. Single handedly created the pirate economy.
Then, welcome to the eighteenth century, when america created the fiction of the Barbary Corsairs to legalise american piracy of the atlantic trade.
Isnt it Mark Twain who states that history rhymes?
US Navy in the Red Sea:
We are conducting freedom of movement and trade, anti piracy operations.
US Coast Guard in the Caribbean:
Look at me, look at me.
I am the pirate now.
The tanker was full of fentanOIL…
2 two things america likes most: oil and drugs. No wonder they had to do it
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?
Let me guess... It was carrying drugs? Just packed full of cocaine? Can't wait to hear the justification for this one.
Time to determine on who's command this was done, and follow down the complete chain to the bottom.
Well at least we know the real reason for the murders now. Why it it always the most greedy, predictable cause?
Dude has been saying for 20 years that we should've stolen Iraq's oil. Yet somehow everyone acts surprised when he does pretty predictable things like this.
Might not be able to buy groceries but at least we have $3.00/gallon, or $0.80/liter, fuel for our planet destroying pickup trucks!
So we are Iran now. Lol this country has fallen so low.
The time Iran stole a US oil tanker was in response to the US stealing one of their oil tankers.
This is how America has always acted.
Ruh-roh. Trump and Hegseth forgot the US has a 100% losing record against countries that start with V.
Vietnam lost over a million of its people during the US invasion and occupation. It's all cutesy and smug to tally this as a Big L for Team USA. But I don't think anyone in that country values the W/L record over the hundreds of thousands of family members, friends, and other loved ones who died to feed the American war machine's rapacious appetite.
That's before we even talk about the ecological damage that haunts Vietnam to this day. Or the deaths in Laos and Cambodia racked up in collateral. Or the tenuous diplomatic relationships between the various South Pacific neighbors based on Cold War grudges, which have re-emerged as a shooting war between Thailand and Cambodia just last month.
definitely not about the oil!!!
Surprised they didn't just blow it up. I guess we're doing piracy now.