It’s all just extraordinary.

[acf@masto.alancfrancis.com]

It’s all just extraordinary. What’s to stop them putting armed goons onto the North Sea rigs and stealing all our oil too ?

US boards tanker in Indian Ocean it 'tracked and hunted' from Caribbean

The US defended its actions, saying the ship defied a quarantine it has placed on oil tankers leaving Venezuela.

(www.bbc.com)

[vfig@mastodon.gamedev.place]

@acf keir starmer would never agree to that!

[semanticist@mastodon.social]

@acf UK has nukes and a real, if smaller, navy. Also, do we even have that much oil left? I thought we were importing more than we export these days?

[otfrom@functional.cafe]

@acf @semanticist so fundamentally nothing?

And having a good strategy isn't a hallmark of the trump regime

[semanticist@mastodon.social]

@otfrom @acf It would literally start a war between two countries with nuclear weapons and comparable levels of conventional military technology and training. Also, NATO article 5. It would start world war three and everyone would die. That kind of decision is above Trump’s pay grade. If nothing else, imagine there’s lower risk targets they would go after first, and it doesn’t really mesh with the sphere of influence doctrine that seems to be the thing now.

[acf@masto.alancfrancis.com]

@semanticist @otfrom I think you’re putting a lot more faith in logic and argument than I’m prepared to right now.

[semanticist@mastodon.social]

@acf @otfrom I can understand why, but Trump isn’t running the show really. Dude’s old, senile, and sick. But letting crazy racist old man Trump talk nonsense is a good distraction from the people who see a great opportunity to get even richer and secure generational power. Those people are also clearly insane, but at least have some sense of self preservation. No matter what Vault Tec in the Fallout show think, no one wins a nuclear war.

[lorimolson@mstdn.ca]

@acf not much at this point