Posted on 05/23/2020 5:20:41 AM PDT by kevcol
Five Iranian oil tankers are currently making their way to Venezuela, where they intend to bust an economic blockade established by the Trump administration on President Nicolas Maduro
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Iranian military leaders said their oil tankers would reach the Caribbean in the coming days. In response, the U.S. Navy has already deployed several ships to the area.
Both Iran and Venezuela have threatened violence if the United States intercedes in the shipment. And while the Trump administration would not telegraph any actions it may be planning, U.S. officials made clear the United States does not intend to let Iran expand its malign influence into Latin America.
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Correct, but... Doesn’t Iran only have about half the refining capacity that they need to meet their own needs?
Granted that if Iran’s economy is in a shambles, maybe they don’t need so much refining capacity these days...
This is where you hire some Somali pirates...
Oil tankers headed FOR Venezuela. Let that sink in, liberals
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Nothing sinks in with them. They always have their ideological blinders on.
That’s funny. I’ve heard Pompeo go after China numerous times.
Subwoofers.
You think Pompeo can’t do two things at once?
All I know is what happened. While Peter Navarro was warning about Chinese virus, our Sec of a State was MIA, fixated on the Middle East and Venezuala - it’s the same old bush-Cheney-neocon playbook.
Thanks very much. This situation is going to get interesting.
I couldn’t help but take note of how quick Trump’s presser was yesterday. He was probably preoccupied with this and/or Hong Kong.
Here’s a scenario:
Iran places crude nuclear devices on oil tankers bound for Venezuela hoping the US will interdict and take the tankers to a US port.
BOOM!
When have you ever heard Pompeo give a press conference or a press release on the importance of building the wall and protecting America’s borders? I haven’t- ever. But he’s real big on building border walls in the Middle East.
When has he talked about the threat of the Mexican cartels right on our border? I’ve never heard him address it. But he can’t stop talking about Venezuala, much farther away
He’s a neocon retread, a Trump hiring mistake just less obnoxious than Bolton
Fallacious drivel
Let me guess. I bet you were a BIG supporter of invading Iraq
Who is buying this heavy sulfur crude?
Heavy, suldur crude oil is the type of oil found in V as compared to the light crude found in the US and requires a special kind of processing which is what CITGO has the refinery in V to do.
Great. Free oil but Watch out for boobytrapped ships.
I suspect the tankers will pass. There isn’t any justification under international law for the U.S. to intercept them.
Hell, give the Venezuelan navy a chance and another ship captain may sink himself!
There was a joke in Communist Czechoslovakia: If the Communists seized the Sahara, there would be lack of sand in the Sahara.
I recall him talking about the Mexican government and the help they are or are not giving at a certain point in time.
I don’t care how many times you bleat ‘NEOCON’. What are you, a one-note Johnny like lurkinaloomin?
That’s not going to convince me.
Of course
However that is irrelevant to your misunderstanding or lack of understanding of dealing with Iran.
Although they are both “over there”, they are in fact different countries
Let the shipment be delivered.
Make Iran give US the money!
They can pay us in CASH!
I knew you were an Iraq war supporter, and now an Iran war booster
neocons never learn
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