U.S. destroys Venezuelan vessels | US seizes Venezuelan oil tanker.

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Oddball said:
As dukeman noted, this is and has been 100% always about an oil grab.

The deal has been made on the grand scale -- Trump gets free hand in this hemisphere (which is why Putin abandoned Maduro), Trump will pull support for Ukraine, and China can ramp up their take over of Taiwan.
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I sure hope the Republicans get their fill of this mess of pottage.
 
altmin said:
What does Gr1111 have to do with this?
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I mean, if I didn’t put it up, someone else would have. I was just saving everyone else the time and energy of having to do a gif search for “Penguin.” It was hard and messy work, but someone had to do it.
 

How a U.S. admiral decided to kill two boat strike survivors​

https://wapo.st/4a6lypq 🎁

New (to me) information reported here:
  • The first strike sunk the boat's motor

  • "The military lawyer who advised the admiral, whom The Post is not identifying because they serve in a secretive unit, explained to Bradley how the law of armed conflict defines “shipwrecked,” these people said. . . Four people familiar with [Bradley's sessions with Congress] said that he affirmed having sought real-time legal advice, but that he did not say whether his military lawyer considered the survivors shipwrecked and out of the fight. There was dissent in the operations room over whether the survivors were viable targets after the first strike, according to two people. What the lawyer advised, though, and whether they rendered a definitive opinion remains unclear."

  • "At the core of Bradley’s defense of the second strike, according to several people familiar with his conversations on Capitol Hill, was his assertion that the attack was not directed at the two survivors but at the boat wreckage and any cocaine it may have sheltered. The laws of war stipulate that military commanders must consider the collateral damage of a strike only if the action could pose a threat to civilians, said Geoffrey Corn, a retired Army lawyer. By labeling suspected drug smugglers as combatants in an armed conflict against Americans, as the Trump administration has done, the Defense Department can argue that the military did not need to consider the harm to survivors when striking again, Corn said."
 
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