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Jaskalas

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"Neither the vessel nor the company is under any sanctions, according to the IMO."

Uhhhhh, that is indeed straight piracy.
Which is why we were not doing those things before being taken over by MAGA Nazis.
 

amenx

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Which is why we were not doing those things before being taken over by MAGA Nazis.
Its basically the Israelification of US policy. Do what you want and to hell with international laws, conventions and agreements. Lets hope Greenland is not next.
 

trenchfoot

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One way to chase away Somali Immigrants would be to turn the US into the Somalia they fled.

We're getting there. The middle class is being relegated to the ranks of the destitute, bit by bit, inch by inch. As difficult as it is that Trump is loudly revealing and implementing the P25 agenda, the oligarchs are still able to do it gradually because they think the slo-mo coup will just slip by the working class MAGAts to keep them voting for the interests of the wealthy (fucking idiots being idiotic) while keeping the libs from getting upset enough to rise up in numbers that'll give them the ability to form up a Democrat led veto/filibuster proof legislature (I really do hope the Democrats can somehow pull a rabbit out of the hat on that). One can hope.
 

SteveGrabowski

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Its basically the Israelification of US policy. Do what you want and to hell with international laws, conventions and agreements. Lets hope Greenland is not next.
That's kind of the American way isn't it? Venezuela gets to join the list of US regime changed or regime change attempted nations along with Iran, Cuba, Chile, Nicaragua, and Iraq. Though this is the dumbest one since Cuba since Fuhrer is setting us on a path to war with China. Fuhrer knows it won't be his kid fed into the meat grinder of war.
 
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K1052

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This is the entire reason Rubio is fixated on Venezuela. If VZ support for Cuba ends the country of Cuba probably collapses. Rubio just wants to depose the regime and does not care one bit how many people are harmed in the process. His personal vendetta is writing checks on our tab that we'll have to deal with for generations.

 
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This is the entire reason Rubio is fixated on Venezuela. If VZ support for Cuba ends the country of Cuba probably collapses. Rubio just wants to depose the regime and does not care one bit how many people are harmed in the process. His personal vendetta is writing checks on our tab that we'll have to deal with for generations.

Just like one of my relatives who I'm pretty sure thinks that if the Cuban government collapsed, they'd potentially get some land back from 75 years ago (as if!). These people just have to stop trying to make "fetch" happen - it's not gonna happen.
 

K1052

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Just like one of my relatives who I'm pretty sure thinks that if the Cuban government collapsed, they'd potentially get some land back from 75 years ago (as if!). These people just have to stop trying to make "fetch" happen - it's not gonna happen.

Cuban expat thinking has infected a lot of shit in US politics especially in Florida and all in bad ways. The reason why Rubio left a safe senate seat was for this opportunity to play out their wildest fantasy which might never come again. My only prediction is that this will not turn out remotely like they are hoping and there will probably be a body count of significant magnitude associated with that failure.
 
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Cuban expat thinking has infected a lot of shit in US politics especially in Florida and all in bad ways. The reason why Rubio left a safe senate seat was for this opportunity to play out their wildest fantasy which might never come again. My only prediction is that this will not turn out remotely like they are hoping and there will probably be a body count of significant magnitude associated with that failure.
After killing off USAID, what's a few 10s to 100s of thousands more dead?
 
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People sometimes think me describing this administration a literal pack of mass murderers is over the line but it's just factually accurate.
They must have read a different oath of office: "I do so solemnly swear to kill foreigners and domestics alike". We have Musk, Rubio, and Hegseth to kill foreigners and RFK Jr and the like to kill off people at home.
 

DZero

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looks like another tanker was highjacked, this time a Panamanian flagged Chinese owned ship


One thing is screwing with other countries, and now is China, this is turning so personal that China will pull a move to ruin Christmas to the US people. Imagine at Christmas eve announcing the stop of selling of rare earths and to make it worse, using it to the RAM market just for China and allies.
 

ivwshane

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cytg111

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Silver lining is it will fracture MAGA even more ... lets hope for a 2026 blow out.
 

Jaskalas

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Great! Now we are going to get flooded in p&n with all the maga’s complaining about Trump starting another war and abusing his authority.
Is it a war if you do not invade?
Just lob all your munitions from a distance!