‘They be pirates’...

[Anti Federalist]

[Danke]

Just paint murals of POW on the side of your boat.


That should repel any self respecting pirate.

[Anti Federalist]

Just paint murals of POW on the side of your boat.


That should repel any self respecting pirate.

@Danke That's not a bad idea...

[TheTexan]

@Danke That's not a bad idea...

The one in the shorts is kinda cute.

[Danke]

The one in the shorts is kinda cute.

Everything is big in Texass.

[oyarde]

You gotta figure even your $#@!hole country typical pirate is going to at least be armed with an AK so you need heavy weapons and just end it before it starts .

[Swordsmyth]

A tanker with 19 crew members on board is feared to have been hijacked after it went missing in pirate-plagued waters off Gabon in West Africa and no word has been heard from it for a week, the ship’s managers and the crew agency said on Wednesday.
Communication was lost with the Panama-registered Pantelena at about 2 a.m. local time on Aug. 14, at which time it was about 17 miles from the port of Libreville, in Gabon, Athens-based Lotus Shipping said in a statement.

According to Reuters, the head of the Georgian crew agency Ialkani, Anzhela Oganesyan, said two Russian nationals and 17 Georgians were aboard the tanker. She said she had no news so far about the vessel’s fate. Lotus gave no further details on the cargo and crew, and did not say if it believed the Pantelena had been hijacked by pirates. The vessel is a dual purpose oil or chemicals tanker.

More at: https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-G...ff-Africa.html

[r3volution 3.0]

Its funny how socialism/communism is so bad and destructive that it needs the economic and military intelligence might of the US to take it down.

It doesn't though jules.

Whatever goals the US foreign policy establishment may have vis a vis Venezuela, their de-civilization is very much a domestic product.

[juleswin]

It doesn't though jules.

Whatever goals the US foreign policy establishment may have vis a vis Venezuela, their de-civilization is very much a domestic product.

Maybe true but Venezuela is not all socialist. It is a mixed economy with natural resources to finance their govt. And like most mixed economy countries in the world, when you apply economic and real military pressure to it, it increases the likelihood of collapse.

I honestly doubt they would be in this much economic turmoil without said pressures.

[r3volution 3.0]

Maybe true but Venezuela is not all socialist.

No, but pretty close these days.

It is a mixed economy with natural resources to finance their govt

The major natural resource, oil, has been ineptly monopolized by the state for a long time.

And like most mixed economy countries in the world, when you apply economic and real military pressure to it, it increases the likelihood of collapse.

It doesn't help, but it's not the real problem.

I honestly doubt they would be in this much economic turmoil without said pressures.

To take one example, they're looking at 1,000,000% (!) annual inflation.

Now, as you and I know, this is a function of the money supply increasing astronomically.

So, unless the CIA has been counterfeiting bolivars, that's on Caracas.

[Swordsmyth]

Gulf of Mexico oil rig located off the coast of Campeche was raided by pirates