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https://xcancel.com/Sec_Noem/status/2002481990755627050#m
https://archive.is/e8WBm (reuters)
edit // changed the title from "Venezuelan oil tanker" to "oil tanker near Venezuela". nytimes says the ship was flagged with Panama. the reuters article seems to say that the oil was headed to China.
Who had "Privateering makes a comeback" on their 2025 bingo card?
Honestly, the "robber" part of a robber barony had me put this on a bingo card a while ago.
I suppose this falls under “crony capitalism” or whatever denial they have that this is the rapacious nature of capitalism to devolve into gangsterism and fascism
Yet another sign: presence of the Pirates of the South US Coast as a mirror for the {华南海盗|huá nán hǎi dào} of the Qing dynasty.
liberals and socdems are like the pathetic reform movements that try to reinvigorate the dying empire by making small adjustments
however the US empire is still somehow an exporter of global imperial violence while the late qing was mostly a victim of it
China occupying Manhattan and downtown LA to trade fentanyl for soybeans and starbucks coffee mugs would be pretty funny though
The United States is the world's most successful bandit kingdom.
Hello, China? Yes, we need some counter-piracy operations in the Caribbean please.
Signed, Peter Brian Kegbreath
Disgusting American animals
Venezuela condemns the acts of piracy committed by the US.
The video footage makes me feel like the US was trying to copy the style of the Ansarallah hijacking Galaxy Leader video.
unable to match the swag
ugly dog killing removed
Death to amerikkka 
The next DOJ can have such a sweet job with how this is all being setup. They'll just need to copy the official press releases to evidence and dump admin officials at the Hague. While it's been very difficult for this DOJ, I don't imagine it would be too hard to abstain from commenting on active cases.
plundering the global south is bipartisan, why would they punish themselves for this?
I have a dream that the US citizens will elect a socialist administration that will drop the liberalism and punish this corruption
emphasis on dream, yeah