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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“ 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 recall that. But I know he hasn’t declared the cartels a terrorist organization, even though they’ve on our border and they’ve killed many more Americans than the far-away regimes he’s obsessed with bringing down (like Iran Syria and Venezuala)
The Bush-Cheney neocons spent 8 years ignoring our borders while obsessing about border disputes in the Middle East. Pompeo seems to carry on that tradition
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DIRTY BO MB S? OR suitcases? Pompeo must have the dirt..
I misread but I thought neither country had refining capacity.
I thought USA refined it.
Because the idiots the Maduro regime put in charge of the refineries they seized from US companies screwed everything up. The can barely turn out gasoline and kerosene, much less diesel from their OWN crude oil.
Who is refining the crude? Iran does not have the capabilities and that seems to be missing in all the stories.
So, Germany hasn't officially signed up yet? China and Iran want us fighting on several fronts at the same time. How charming...
Me
Mid to end of second term
DrPretorius
If they fulfill the property holding and taxpaying requirement today then they should be the only addition to the earlier restrictive rules.
There you go
Thanks for sharing.
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Is Venezuela still able to refine product and export it?
5.56mm
Maybe that job belongs to the DHS CBP, NOT DoS!“
Excuses excuses. Pompeo focuses on borders in the Middle East and Venezuela, not America’s borders. The old Bush-Cheney-McCain mentality
And it took Navarro to advocate for closing flights from China. Pompeo was focused on Syria at the time. Again, like a typical Cheneyesque neocon - ignore the real threats and obsess about MidEast regime change
Both do, but the Venezuelans have screwed theirs up so badly with inexperienced operators and defection of experienced operators and managers that it is no longer fully operational. Iran's "does" still work. Neither has enough refining capacity to refine all the oil they produce, and never did.
Send out the killer cruise ship which has already sunk a Venezuelan Navy frigate.
Release the cruise ship!
Is Stage 4 TDS considered an underlying morbidity?
That would be a fun confrontation.
I meant spools of cable. I was in Navy JROTC in high school. Was on a two week summer cruise on the Lexington in 1982 as part of the program. It was a training carrier by then in Pensacola. We were berthed where the Marines had vacated. That cured me of wanting to join the Navy, so I followed my father into the Air Force. Spent my whole life (55 years and counting) with the Air Force. Born on an AF base, 20 years in, and now in civil service.
my personal policy is to laugh at sanctimonious veterans who think wisdom comes with seniority
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