The United States seized a Venezuelan oil tanker in the Caribbean. Dems immediately started whining about “piracy.” The problem with that complaint is that a Federal judge signed a seizure warrant on the tanker because it had been on the radar as transporting sanctioned oil for several years.

Attorney General Pam Bondi said a joint operation with the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Homeland Security Investigations and the United States Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker that was allegedly being used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran.

“For multiple years, the oil tanker has been sanctioned by the United States due to its involvement in an illicit oil shipping network supporting foreign terrorist organizations,” she said on X. “This seizure, completed off the coast of Venezuela, was conducted safely and securely—and our investigation alongside the Department of Homeland Security to prevent the transport of sanctioned oil continues.”Fox

To the moron Democrats who can’t bring themselves to see why we blow up drug boats and didn’t blow up a massive oil tanker: because blowing up a tanker with that much oil would create an environmental disaster in the ocean of major proportions. Seizure is the only alternative.

So they can seize an oil tanker, but not a drug boat? pic.twitter.com/VFOLFLtdsh

— Mark Warner (@MarkWarner) December 10, 2025

“Well Mark, the Oil tanker is big, and would likely ruin the ocean for a few days- plus we can use the oil.

Drug boats only make little splash, and leave a small mess- plus it’s only filled with drugs.” @RealJasonNelson

The illicit “shipping network” is among Venezuela, Iran, and China. The Venezuelan and Iranian crude oil is often sent to China. This shipment of 1.1 million gallons of oil was worth at least $66 million, according to an expert on X and was bound for Cuba. It was part of the network of illicit sanctioned oil.

Today the @FBI and our partners executed a seizure warrant for a crude oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela – used to transport sanctioned oil from Venezuela and Iran. The tanker has been used in recent years in an illicit shipping network supporting foreign terrorist… pic.twitter.com/32w0tG93jy

— FBI Director Kash Patel (@FBIDirectorKash) December 10, 2025

Never go full-Venezuela. pic.twitter.com/VB6lwAJT1S

— I Love America News (@ILA_NewsX) December 10, 2025

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— Mrs B (@attackdogX) December 10, 2025

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— Mrs B (@attackdogX) December 10, 2025

The Biden Administration spokesman John Kirby admitted the Democrats anti-Jew street protests were funded by Iran.

They were marching in the streets with Hamas allies

Democrats were never going to stop this oil tanker from Venezuela. Their party’s street thugs were funded by it

— Tara Servatius (@TaraServatius) December 11, 2025

For anyone bitching about the U.S. taking this tanker, here’s the truth: it was sending money straight into the Maduro regime.

This ship has been used to run Iranian oil that helps fund Hezbollah and Iran’s Revolutionary Guard.

So yes, the U.S. seized it. Any halfway serious…

— Jammles (@jammles9) December 11, 2025

The seizure of the Venezuelan oil tanker was an important part of the administration’s pressure on the Maduro regime. It had been sanctioned in previous administrations, but no one actually did anything. Finally, we have a President who acts.

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