"I'm afraid that Secretary [Pete] Hegseth and President Trump are sleepwalking us into a war with Venezuela, and that regime change and access to the critical mineral resources and oil and gas of Venezuela is the real purpose and real goal here," [Sen. Chris] Coons told MS NOW's Nicolle Wallace on "Deadline: White House," in comments highlighted by Mediaite.
Durbin: "Any president before he engages in act of war has to have the authorization of the American people through Congress ... this president is preparing for an invasion of Venezuela. Simply said. And if the American people are in favor of that, I'd be surprised."[image or embed]
" Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com) Dec 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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US forces seize oil tanker off Venezuela coast
www.theguardian.com
... Move is major escalation of US pressure campaign against South American country's dictator, Nicols Maduro.
US forces have seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, in a major escalation of Donald Trump's four-month pressure campaign against the South American country's dictator, Nicols Maduro.
The US president confirmed the operation on Wednesday, telling reporters: "We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela - a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually. And other things are happening so you will be seeing that later and you will be talking about that later with other people."
Two US officials told Reuters the operation was led by the US Coast Guard, but did not name the tanker or say specifically where the interception happened. A senior Trump administration official told Bloomberg that the US had conducted a "judicial enforcement action on a stateless vessel" that was last docked in Venezuela. ...
Well, the US just seized an oil tanker off Venezuela: "US seizes oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, officials say" at www.reuters.com
More info about the flyover ...
In defiant flyover, US F-18 fighter jets enter Venezuelan airspace for 40 minutes
www.stripes.com
... Two U.S. F-18 fighter jets flying in tandem entered Venezuelan airspace around noon Tuesday, circling over the Gulf of Venezuela in the latest show of force against the regime of Nicols Maduro.
The flyover -- carried out despite the Venezuelan regime's possession of a number of Russian-made anti-aircraft batteries -- took place less than 100 miles northeast of Maracaibo, Venezuela's second-largest city. Thousands of Venezuelans tracked the aircraft online through specialized tracking websites, watching as the jets traced a bow-tie-shaped pattern over the gulf.
The fighters remained inside Venezuelan airspace for at least 40 minutes at an altitude of roughly 25,000 feet before heading north and leaving the area.
The U.S. fighter jets flew between two key regions for Venezuela's energy sector, Zulia and Falcon states. Lake Maracaibo, whose 5,000 square miles make it of the largest fresh bodies of water on the continent, is the cradle of reserves of some 150 billion barrels of crude oil. ...
When Dummkopf Trumpf illegally bombed Iran in June this year, House Democrat Al Green (D-TX) introduced a bill to impeach the Republican warmonger.
"The House overwhelmingly torpedoed an effort by Rep. Al Green (D-TX) to impeach President Dummkopf Trumpf over the US strikes on Iran, underscoring how little appetite Democrats have to try and oust the president despite their frustration with the weekend attack.
The chamber voted 344-79 to table Green's resolution, which charges Trumpf with abuse of power. One hundred-twenty eight Democrats, including the caucus's top three leaders, voted with Republicans to table the measure, while 79 Democrats voted against the effort, pushing for the chamber to hold a vote on the resolution."
Source: The Hill.com.
Gut arbet, Congressional Democrats!
Why did these 128 Democrats think it was OK for the US to attack Iranian targets in June 2025 but it is not OK for the US to attack Venezuelan targets beginning in September?
He seized a Venezuelan oil tanker ffs
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No he didn't....
Under the "law of the sea" " UNCLOS " any stateless vessel can be stopped and boarded by any nation. No permission required.
MarineTraffic showed it flying a Guyana flag, but that's just self-reported AIS data.
The actual government registry database, Equasis.org, and you'll see Guyana officially denies registering this ship.
No real flag = stateless vessel.
And stateless vessels have zero legal protections.
Naval War College lays out the full framework here:
digital-commons.usnwc.edu
Why did Bidens oil sanctions not work? Because he never went after stateless tankers, which were violating the sanctions.
More info about the flyover ...
In defiant flyover, US F-18 fighter jets enter Venezuelan airspace for 40 minutes
www.stripes.com
~ GasLighter
This was an escort of Machado's boat as I have stated you morons.
At the time of her crossing, the Navy dispatched two F-18 fighter jets into the Gulf of Venezuela, where they flew circles around her route for about 40 minutes"the closest incursion into Venezuelan airspace the military has made since tensions between the two nations escalated in September.
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