Posted on 05/25/2020 3:38:45 PM PDT by buckalfa
Under what legal pretext would allow the United states to seize an unladen merchant ship flying a foreign flag in international waters.
Well, we could always dust off the "Monroe Doctrine". What "pretext" did Kennedy use to turn the Russians away from installing missiles in Cuba?? I think allowing the Iranians to establish a base in Venezuela fits the same category.
Maduro first in line.
a tanker load of gasoline is not a military threat to the United States, a ship with a cargo of 500 mile range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads is. Kennedy did not stop and seize Soviet ships after they had offloaded their missiles in Cuba. Which is what you are recommending. What evidence is there that the Iranians are trying to build a base in Venezuela?
what say we prevent the tankers, now offloaded and less of a pollution risk, from ever returning to Iran?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=olMkcIuFUC4
You will be glad you did
Pretty sure it is gasoline..
Hugo Chavez fired all the competent people who were working in the refineries because their loyalty to the regime was questioned. They were replaced by unqualified political flunkies. Not just engineers and managers, but also technicians and operators were fired. I know some of them. One engineer managed to get out and landed on her feet up in Fort McMurray, Alberta. She puts up with winter, but she’s happy to be away from the Chavista mess.
I don’t doubt it. In college, I had classes with a petroleum engineering student from Venezuela, whose ancestry was German Jewish that had gotten out of Germany ahead of Hitler. BRILLIANT guy. He went back to Venezuela after graduation.
I often wonder where he ended up. I’m sure his clan “saw the writing on the wall” early enough to get out.
Most ( but not all) German Jews had left Germany by 1939. They were much less than 1% of Germany’s population in 1930.
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