The Trump-led government has gloated about the size of the tanker, and the ability for the United States Armed Forces to commit piracy.

United States seizes oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela

The Socialist Bulletin Staff - 11/12/2025

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THE United States regime under Donald Trump has today announced that it has seized an oil tanker off of the coast of Venezuela, proving that the pretext of 'combating drugs' was indeed false.

The warmongering state has been building up military forces in the Caribbean for many months, since Trump and his government decided without significant proof that Venezuela is a primary exporter of drugs.

The US government used this as pretense to murder a large number of Venezuelan fishermen, who the American regime says could have been carrying drugs, despite the fact that most of the fishermen had entirely stayed inside of Venezuela's territorial waters.

These attacks are criminal, and violate the sovereignty of Venezuela, which successive US leaders, whether it be the Obama, Trump, or Biden-led regimes, have been attempting to violate for many years now.

Today's seizure of an oil tanker is the first of its kind in recent years, and has allowed the United States to steal a boatload of oil, which the US regime relies on.

Trump claimed today that the oil tanker was "the largest one ever seized actually," as he gloated about the international piracy committed by his armed forces.

The Socialist Bulletin acknowledges that we write on stolen, unceded Indigenous land. We pay our respects to First Nations elders, past, present, and emerging.

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