US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump says
Posted by Ed on December 10, 2025, 11:27 pm
Here we go again...fucking gangsters.
quote: US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump says
"We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually", the US president said.
The US has intercepted and seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump has said.
President Trump confirmed the operation at a meeting with business leaders at the White House on Wednesday.
"We've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, a large tanker, very large, largest one ever seized, actually," he said at the start of the meeting.
It marks the latest escalation from the Trump administration, which has in recent months ramped up pressure on Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
The US accuses Mr Maduro of presiding over a narcotrafficking operation in Venezuela, which he denies...
The fucking fraudian can't help but do their bit for the empire (see bolded line amongst other bullshit). This come just as the ignoble prize winning regime change shill was playing hide and seek before her appearance in Oslo and all the corporate media are playing shocked as if she was being stalked around the world by hit men. Fucking nonsense.
Also the tangerine twat can't help himself, "the largest ever seized actually". Yeh, even if true, that's because it doesn't happen very often because most people are foul enough to resort to piracy you fucking cretin. Fuck the USA.
Venezuela decries ‘act of piracy’ after US forces seize oil tanker off country’s coast
Footage uploaded to X by US attorney general shows its forces landing on the tanker in major escalation of Trump’s pressure campaign
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, whose government called the seizure “an act of international piracy”.
Trump confirmed the operation on Wednesday, saying: “We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela – a large tanker, very large, the largest one ever seized actually.”
“It was seized for a very good reason,” the US president added, declining to say who owned the vessel.
Pam Bondi, the US attorney general, posted footage of the seizure on X. The grainy, unclassified 45-second video shows US forces landing on the tanker from a helicopter.
In an accompanying statement, Bondi said the FBI, Homeland Security Investigations and the US Coast Guard, with support from the Department of Defense, had “executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran”.
She said the tanker had been sanctioned by the US for “multiple years” due to its “involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations”.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) posted its own video edit of the seizure, soundtracked with an excerpt from LL Cool J’s song Mama Said Knock You Out. DHS has repeatedly faced criticism for poaching music for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) recruitment ads. DHS recently used a Sabrina Carpenter song, without permission, prompting the pop star to respond that the video was “evil and disgusting”.
LL Cool J did not immediately address the use of his song.
Venezuela’s government said in the statement that the seizure “constitutes a blatant theft and an act of international piracy”.
It continued: “Under these circumstances, the true reasons for the prolonged aggression against Venezuela have finally been revealed … It has always been about our natural resources, our oil, our energy, the resources that belong exclusively to the Venezuelan people.”
Earlier, speaking at a rally in Caracas, Maduro urged citizens to act like “warriors” and be ready “to smash the teeth of the North American empire if necessary”.
Maduro has been in power since 2013, when he succeeded Hugo Chávez after his death from cancer. Widely believed to have stolen last year’s presidential election, Maduro has clung to power after launching a wave of repression that forced Edmundo González, the apparent winner of the 2024 vote, into exile in Spain.
Since August, the US has put a $50m bounty on Maduro’s head, launched the biggest naval deployment in the Caribbean Sea since the 1962 Cuban missile crisis, and carried out a series of deadly airstrikes on alleged drug boats that have killed more than 80 people.
On Tuesday, two US fighter jets circled the Gulf of Venezuela for about 40 minutes. The aircraft flew just north of Maracaibo, one of Venezuela’s most populous cities.
On Wednesday, González’s most important backer, the opposition leader María Corina Machado, was awarded the Nobel peace prize for her “tireless work promoting democratic rights for the people of Venezuela and for her struggle to achieve a peaceful and just transition from dictatorship to democracy”.
Machado’s daughter, Ana Corina Sosa Machado, accepted the prize, telling a ceremony in Oslo that her mother’s struggle to end years of “obscene corruption” and “brutal dictatorship” would go on.
Venezuela has the world’s largest proven reserves of oil and, although years of mismanagement and corruption have done severe damage to its oil industry, oil exports remain Venezuela’s main source of revenue. The main customer is China.
The objective of this week’s reported tanker seizure was not immediately clear.
In an interview last week, Joe Biden’s former chief Latin America adviser, Juan González, said that at around the time of last year’s election he had pushed for the US to station two navy destroyers off Venezuela’s coast “and even impose an oil blockade”.
That never happened, but González believed one possible way out of the current crisis might be for the Trump administration to push Maduro into accepting a recall referendum, perhaps in 2027, but threatening “real hardline consequences” such as a blockade if the result was not respected.
“I think it is potentially a viable option where there should be a very credible and aggressive snapback associated with it,” González said, adding: “Imposing an oil blockade would shut down the entire economy.”
“It’s less aggressive [than a land strike] but it’s still considered an act of war,” added González, who was the national security council’s senior director for the western hemisphere during the Biden administration.
“He [Trump] could take unilateral action by blocking oil tankers from leaving or entering the country, and that I think would precipitate Maduro’s departure.” The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Re: US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump says
It isn't the largest tanker ever seized, that was the one in that James bond film. Doesn't he know anything?The last working-class hero in England. Clio the cat, ? July 1997 - 1 May 2016 Kira the cat, ? ? 2010 - 3 August 2018 Jasper the Ruffian cat ??? - 4 November 2021 Georgina the cat ???-4 December 2025
Re: US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump says
> Venezuela has the world’s largest proven reserves > of oil and, although years of mismanagement and > corruption have done severe damage to its oil > industry, oil exports remain Venezuela’s main > source of revenue. The main customer is China.
-- As always, the impact that the neighbourhood superpower's economic siege warfare has had on the country's 'main source of revenue' is airbrushed out of sight in order that the country can be finger-wagged about its 'mismanagement and corruption'. So there's no mention of, say, the fact that "Since April 2, 2025, any country that imports Venezuelan oil may be subject to a 25% tariff on its exports to the United States."
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Re: US has seized oil tanker off coast of Venezuela, Donald Trump says
The CBC radio national newscast this morning talked about the ‘Venezuelan regime’ and ‘authoritarian president Maduro’. Manufacturing consent - just disgusting.
And ironic since our neighbour to the south is making authoritarian announcements almost hourly. The CBC doesn’t refer to them as an authoritarian regime.
Disgusting piece lionising the quisling warmonger.
quote: Venezuelan Nobel laureate reunited with family after perilous journey to receive prize
...Machado, who was forced into hiding in Venezuela by the country’s dictator, Nicolás Maduro, slipped out of her authoritarian homeland by boat in order to travel to Norway to collect her prize...
That whole story was pathetic. "Oh no, she didn't appear!" "What could be happening?" "Oh no, she's so persecuted". Pile of shite. The post-truth era really living up to its billing just lately.
The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
Venezuelan Nobel laureate reunited with family after perilous journey to receive prize
I can't be bothered to c&p it but they have gone full tongue bath; she's clearly being set up to take over if they get Maduro.The corporate media are complicit in the Gaza genocide. Never forget what they did. Never forgive them for it.
on December 10, 2025, 11:27 pm