Illustrative image. (U.S. Navy)
President Donald Trump announced on December 10 that the United States had seized a sanctioned oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela.
“We’ve just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela, large tanker, very large, largest one ever, actually, and other things are happening,” said Trump.
When asked by reporters at the White House what would happen with the oil loaded in the tanker, Trump answered: “We keep it, I guess.”
In a post on X, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that the FBI, Homeland Security and Coast Guard, along with support from the U.S. military, carried out a seizure warrant for a crude tanker used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.
The seizure of the tanker marked a new escalation in the U.S. pressure campaign against Venezuela which began back in October, and later evolved into a military operation targeting alleged drug traffickers in the Caribbean Sea and the eastern Pacific Ocean with the undeclared aim of ousting President Nicols Maduro.
The U.S. previously imposed sanctions on the tanker, identified as Skipper, for what it said was involvement in Iranian oil trading when the vessel was called the Adisa.
The Skipper left Venezuela’s main oil port of Jose between December 4 and 5 after loading some 1.8 million barrels of Venezuela’s Merey heavy crude.
It then transferred about 200,000 barrels near Curacao to the Panama-flagged Neptune 6 bound for Cuba before the seizure, Reuters reported, citing satellite information analyzed by TankerTrackers.com and internal data from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA.
The Venezuelan government in a statement accused the U.S. of “blatant theft” and described the seizure as “an act of international piracy”.
Separately on December 10, a photo released by Reuters revealed that the U.S. Navy has deployed at least six EA-18G Growler electronic warfare aircraft at José Aponte de la Torre Airport in Puerto Rico.
The deployment, a part of a wider military buildup in the Caribbean that began in October, indicates that the U.S. is about to attack Venezuela. The country maintains a dense network of advanced air defenses, and EA-18G aircraft are usually deployed to suppress such networks.
📍José Aponte de la Torre Airport, #UnitedStates (🇺🇸)
We now have visual confirmation of the arrival of the 6x @USNavy EA-18 Growlers in Ceiba.
They join the @USMC F-35B Lightning IIs at the base, and their sisters currently deployed upon the USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78). https://t.co/PdlkHKLiCA pic.twitter.com/iUQkDGYlq0
— SA Defensa (@SA_Defensa) December 10, 2025
Trump warned in an interview with Politico released on December 9 that Maduro’s “days are numbered” and refused to rule out sending U.S. ground troops to depose him. A report released later by CNN revealed that the U.S. has been quietly working on day-after plans in the event Maduro is ousted from power.
In recent weeks, the diplomatic engagement between the U.S. and Venezuela saw an uptake, with Trump even phoning Maduro. Still, an agreement seems unlikely.
The Trump administration apparently believes that ousting Maduro is essential to gain access to the country’s oil reserves, believed to be the largest in the world. However, any military intervention will bring serious risks to the U.S. and could even end up backfiring.
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usually drug master minds get long jail sentences even when it’s common knowledge the business kills ruthlessly. it’s a great shame that the people who run it globally nationally and state, aren’t held accountable. they never are. that’s the evidence that reveals their identity.
the masks are off. when afghanistan was occupied heroin trade was boosted an ally of us was involved a relative of karzai. when columbia was under full us control cocaine trade was boosted, then over 90% transited by columbia. the contras affair was not an exception.trump just gave presidential pardon to honduras narco president juan orlando hernández who brought 400 tonnes of cocaine in usa ≈4.5billion doses.
yes drugs are a reality that can’t be magically made to go away. it’s sad but true that they feed the mitary industrialists appetites for selling weapons and governments can’t overtly tax people that highly, so in order to afford to buy the weapons they need to defend themselves they have to join the band wagon. lesser if two evils
heroin and even cocaine aren’t as deadly as fentanyl crack. heroin actually is the best pain killer and coke requires a, lot to bee harmful but fentanyl, just one small dose once can, is fatal for thousands of young people every week.
more unfortunately, globally drug dealers are viewed by the hundreds of millions of consumers as heroic, fighting against the evil oppressive anti drug governments police
courts politicians and people whilst infiltrating everywhere too.
sabotaging from within. to conquer enslave and own from without allegedly
the usual same old game. holier than thou. drugs get you high man, take you to the next level, spiritual experiences, all that.
course the government’s run the show all justified by necessity. allegedly.
“they’d have stopped me” machado reveals how sue escaped maduro…
drm news
should keep her price and stay in oslo.
she will liberate venezuala but i suspect she’s an entrapment from the kingdoms yes. for america to fall into.
“lavrov europe has orchestrated the evils of humanity throughout history.”
apt
here they are back in berlin
“any attacks on nato will be met with fury” rutte warning for putin.
you tube.
i guess the usadmin couldn’t get vietnam out of their system and are now looking for another suicide operation to nowhere. the russian admin has said that it will support venezuela so america’s next ‘vietnam’ could be on steroids. the usadmin lost bigtime in ukraine and are blaming the operatives and not their equipment which clearly isn’t up to the job. bullying tribesmen in iraq and libya isn’t quite the same as going against a competent army.
so faked so obvious transparent bs. and the votes too.
peter jennings ramses python betty boom. boom etcetera.
er…what? it”s a bot.
“watch live, nobel peace winner michado speaks in oslo at nobel….
apt
democracy is the path to peace………. all men are created equal.
their ‘peace’ rather looks like ‘rest in peace’ after missiles and bombs turn countries into desolated toxic wastelands. nobel invented the dynamite…machado is descendant to slave owners oligarchy…
who isn’t the law made slavery legal for everyone who could afford one everyone had slaves except peasants who were slaves anyway. and the law cane from the pope or the king. people had to obey the law.
the africans enslaved each other too, the chinese arabs everyone had slaves.
america ended slavery. but that was another entrapment after the war of independence timed with the french revolution, to look democratic, england didnt want america to be great so ran the psyop to free the slaves. that was devastating to the anerican economy. to the then homeless penniless african ex slaves and their impoverished families who suddenly had no homes no healthcare no food clothing nothing.
where is the “impeach trump” gang right now ?
in your americunt anuz
look oil is as common as water. google it. there’s billions of gallons and it is renewable. they pretend it’s scarce for profit. its not they know it.
it should cost a few cents a gallon. they lie
and it should not cost the lives of anyone
tell the royals that control opec that. and include standard oil new york british petroleum under myriad of trading names, royal dutch shell corporation and the middle eastern sheiks emirs sultans etc.
mucca guby ramsesmuk
i want all alawites who obeyed putler and betrayed their homeland to pay with their death in moscow at the hands of nato soldiers.
estados unidos ladrão
pirates of the caribbean at work. make america great again, by taking other nations’ riches.
yeah usil = rogue ‘state’ on steroids. monstruous avidity, greed absolutely.
england is the famous pirate of the carribean which is there’s and vebezuala was pirated by the spanish conquistadors spain that murdered montesuma and plundered trillions in gold from south anerica leaving them cocaine which they control too imo allegedly.
yes the spanish english the intermarried families the royals the two biggest “pirates” in the history of the world
england invading 80% of africa, all of australia new zealand india and drugging china, the spanish destroying the aztec empire murdering them stealing tonnes of gold and all of south america whilst running the inquisition throughout europe, together the two of them running the biggest crimes against humanity on a scale exceeding hitler. allegedly. and the inquisition didnt run for 4 years.
they deceive the inquisition and witch hunts run by church and crown together worked like this… “
someone” would accuse somebody so the authorities would be given an arrest warrant. the cops would turn up zthe arrested would have to sign the bill for the costs, then they’d be taken to a torture chamber, they’d sign the bill, then they’d be tortured, they’d sign the bill, then they’d be tried, they receive the bill, then if they survived they’d be executed they’d be given the bill. then they’d be disposed off their estate would receive the bill.
convicted witches, and i did the research in primary school, around 20 million over almost 500 years throughout uk europe, would have all of their assets, everything confiscated by the church crown everything every single thing. made hitler look like a learner. allegedly and the torture, imagine knowing the minute you said yes i’m a witch you would be burned slowly to death at the shoping centre think about it for a few weeks.
and then in the 1980s they systematically removed all of the evidence from public libraries, destroyed thousands and thousands of books, scoured second hand book shops charity opp shops garage sales everything hunting for evidence to destroy. discretely as possible. allegedly.
not convinced that johnny depp would want anything to do with these zio-stooge curs
pirates !!!!!
the rogue empire of greed and lies cynically accuses its next targets to do what actually the empires does. each and every one of its accusations is a confession. attacking the whole world with taxes and lies then murdering citizens and stealing assets before resorting to unprovoked aggressions; what they call the new world order rather looks like chaos!
well thats the result of doing nothing when iranian ships or north korean ships where taken. now dont do anything when venezuelan ships are taken and russian sunk and we will end up in the same world as when the british sunk the spanish ships so only their traders coud trade.
they didn’t sink them, they pirated the gold the spanish murdered the aztecs for and then when the spanish acted the innocent victim of robbery they did sink their armada and bankrupted spain. yes. karma.or in christian terminology the grace of god.
and youre now in the world that is ruled by still tonnes of that stolen aztec gold still in bullion on deposit in america russia china but china and russia have the biggest mines though they have to buy it from basically, switzerland who pretend england’s running it from the city of london. england claims gold as one of its major exports but has none really at home.
maduro a criminal cartel co operative and go and ask any venezualan or iranian living in your street why they left. we’re they so happy at home? did they think they’d move to a nightmare country for their children’s future?
the bolivarian people do not share your ignorant opinion. they are getting armed for land invasion. green go home !
even if they hate maduro and the iranian regime they still dont want to get bombed into oblivion or murdered by mercenarys like it happened in syria.
gotcha maga cap on there holmes ?
the american naval armade is now conducting an illegal blockade and performing siege operations. only lloyds of london insured shipping is allowed to pass. yemen drove the carrier group out of the red sea. venezuela is better armed if forced to respond in kind. cuba is also deeply effected. it is strategically located to attack venezuela
venezuela may find itself with increasing international support that the us operations are ignorant of.
we will see about that. i have yet to see the rest of the world react much to the usa. the russians, iranians, iraqis and lebanese were the only ones that reacted to the syrian war and the rest of the world just watched them struggle alone against the resources of nato, israel and the gulf cooperation council just as they watched as turkey and azerbeydhschan drove out 100.000 people out of their homes in nagorny karabakh.
a doutrina monroe exprime-se numa nota de um dólar…et caetera…
sou de esquerda mas não gosto do maduro, ele é muito bobo e não fez nada pela venezuela, apesar de que o culpado da pobreza do país são as sanções americanas.