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The Trump White House engages in straight-out piracy by seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker on

its way to Cuba.

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Leanne, we have a lot to talk about again, as we always do. There's this seizure of Venezuela's assets,

this time an oil tanker. Back in 2019, the United States and Britain seized a billion dollars

worth of Venezuela's gold. They stole the Venezuelan embassy in Georgetown in Washington, D.C.

They just stole so many Venezuelan assets. But now you have the USS Gerald Ford, the aircraft

carrier, a destroyer group, many U.S. fighter jets in the vicinity of Venezuela. They're not only bombing boats,

destroying boats, killing fishermen, now seizing a Venezuelan oil tanker on its way to Cuba.

And of course, Cuba desperately needs oil. There's many blackouts going on in Cuba.

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