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Trump's blockade against Venezuela is for "our oil." Experts say it isn't the US's to take.
(www.motherjones.com)
You really even need to ask "experts" for this?
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It is like every other news title right now.
"Trump says it is his constitutional right to name himself king of the world and that all of his subjects must now blow him--but some experts disagree."
Plausible deniability.
No. Some of us know right from wrong
The US Navy are just pirates now.
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
Every one of those sailors had an obligation to refuse their orders, and chose to not do so.
Leave my mans pealing potatoes in the galley out of this 😤
Ok it was a little broad. Your punishment for refusing would be peeling potatoes anyway.
You need experts to call theft theft?
We need the experts to call it theft so that half of the American populace can disregard everything they say. Following the advice of experts died during covid
You don't need to be an expert to know oil in Venezuela belongs to Venezuela.
We need an expert to find out how our oil got under their soil.
The fact that Donald Trump is saying that Venezuela's oil belongs to them sounds like something from a bad political drama.
Anything to distract from the Epstein files.
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.
I think it makes more sense if you view the country as an addict.
they don't want to maximise oil preservation. they are maximising corporate profit.
But we like war
And wasting oil!
Yeah, there is a lot of money to be made
From a logical point of view, the US is engaged in hostile acts and uses oil to finance itself….
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
Naval blockades sound like a belly- button problem.
the US needs a naval blockade and severe sanctions.
Naval blockages
Legal experts say question of legality of theft is unclear.