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, Nicolás 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, Nicolás Maduro.
The problem is Trump has no credibility. Nobody is going to believe it.
The US has no credibility, from the USS Maine to the Gulf of Tonkin to this
True enough, but the ghost fleets of oil tankers and ocean fishing vessels are a real problem as well. I would say that I find it unlikely that this administration would go out of their way to do the paperwork for possibly legal targets when they’ve been so ruthlessly attacking non-legit targets, but the stakes are also higher with the monetary value of the oil.