In contrast to people, oil has a market value.

I mean, I know what your point is, but can we actually just be thankful that they did not in fact blow up an oil tanker and spill all that into the sea?

blowing up a tanker would cause a huge hazard to the area, spilling oil all over the ocean.

I can think of a few reasons why the US Navy wouldn't want to fire high explosives into a contain full of flammable materials, depending on the range of their artillery.

Also definitely possible they're just doing Privateer shit with Navy assets. I do wonder whether the vessel gets impounded or just escorted to a friendly port in El Salvador or Honduras and quietly re-flagged and titled.

He wants to declare war on Venezuela next year (or hopes that he can agitate them enough to commit an act of terror on the US) so he can deny midterm elections because he knows the GOP majority will potentially be cooked

Remember how much his eyes shifted when he was told that elections can be delayed due to a country being at war

Tradition!

Oil is drugs mmmkay

It was carrying drugs?

This type of drug has several street names, among them, black gold and Texas tea.

It has been under US sanctions since 2022 for supplying the Iranian Revolutionary Guards. It was spoofing its position. It was flying a false flag.

As to the legal justification, there are technicalities that could be argued. But that’s incidental to the intention here probably.

Hamas actually \s

Petro-terrorists.

Anything's ok as long as you ad hyphen terrorist to the person, place or thing.

Take/blow up anything you want with this one simple trick

more like a drug tanker

Pirates of the Caribbean!

Fack.

I want off Mr. Bones' Wild Ride already.

No that was George Lucas

Actually the US has a shockingly short list of wars they have outright won where they were NOT part of an international coalition.

Vietnam lost over a million of its people during the US invasion and occupation. It's all cutesy and smug to tally this as a Big L for Team USA. But I don't think anyone in that country values the W/L record over the hundreds of thousands of family members, friends, and other loved ones who died to feed the American war machine's rapacious appetite.

That's before we even talk about the ecological damage that haunts Vietnam to this day. Or the deaths in Laos and Cambodia racked up in collateral. Or the tenuous diplomatic relationships between the various South Pacific neighbors based on Cold War grudges, which have re-emerged as a shooting war between Thailand and Cambodia just last month.

VCanada

Dude has been saying for 20 years that we should've stolen Iraq's oil. Yet somehow everyone acts surprised when he does pretty predictable things like this.

All you get is a soccer peace prize.

And do what exactly? They aren't going to get punished for it, so what's the fucking point?

Why? The one giving the order on the top is ultimately responsible. Insubordination against king Donald of Orange the First will probably get you court martialed and hanged...