US Seizes Oil Tanker Off the Coast of Venezuela

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-12-10/us-seizes-oil-tanker-off-the-coast-of-venezuela?embedded-checkout=true

34 Comments

  1. ThatsItImOverThis on

    Funny how they can seize an oil tanker but not those suspected drug boats. Those they just HAD to blow out of the water.

  2. Alright hear me out… at least they didn’t just shoot it, and then shoot anyone that survived this time. /s

  3. Trump’s been mentioning Somalia recently – he’s showing them who the real pirates are

  4. The_Frostweaver on

    Nicolás Maduro is an evil dictator who did steal the election.

    But I don’t see any good end game plan for Venezuela.

    Trump is fucking around, escalating and escalating with no justification and no realistic endgame plan.

    And the rest of the Republicans in charge of Congress are watching it happen and doing nothing.

    We are going to end up at war with Venezuela because Marco has a grudge against socialists, Hegseth wants to feel like a warrior, Trump is asleep at the helm, and Republicans in Congress are cowards.

    Pathetic.

  5. I knew we would resort to piracy but I thought we would seize shipments of rare earth materials.

  6. Republicans: “it’s always been about the cocaine! We have our own oil! We don’t need Venezuela’s oil! He’s fighting terrorism!”

    Sure. Push that head deeper and deeper into the ground.

  7. He didn’t do this even for Iran or Russia, both possibly even more sanctioned than Venezuela.

    Just so we all are clear what this is really about.

  8. Seems wild the US can pitch a tent around a country they aren’t at war with an selectively kill people, and given double tap orders – leave no evidence behind to counter there chosen narrative.

    Now there seizing oil tankers and (last I heard) providing no comment.

  9. Anakin: I’m sending the military to Venezuela
    Padme: It’s not about oil though, right?
    Anakin: ….
    Padme: It’s not about oil though, right?

  10. Escalation into retaliation. Then victimhood and full scale war. It can’t be anymore obvious.

  11. That’s an odd move.

    The United States is a net petroleum exporter and doesn’t need anyone’s oil.