Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth seem hellbent on eradicating any sense of honor or pride in the U.S. military. Over the past weeks, there’s been intense controversy over Hegseth murdering shipwrecked sailors clinging to wreckage in the open ocean, with a video of the incident said to be stomach-churning.
But if you’re taking a sledgehammer to the military’s reputation, why not engage in some outright piracy on the side? Overnight, US forces boarded and seized an oil tanker off the coast of Venezuela”. The tanker – a Panama-flagged vessel named Skipper – was transporting oil from Venezuela to Cuba, which raised the ire of the Trump administration.
