Act of War?

Russell Brand
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3 Video Views·Jan 12, 2026
As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker.
Today the Federal Bureau of Homeland Security Investigations and the US
Coast Guard, with support from the Department of War, executed a seizure
warrant for a crude oil tanker used to transport
sanctioned oil from Venezuela to Iran. For multiple years the oil tanker has
been sanctioned. Some people, Jeremy Corbyn in the UK,
called it out and out piracy. Let me know what you think in the
comments and chat. In the old days, before I had these flirtations with what
are sort of known as right-wing politics or MAGA
or whatever, I would have seen that as old-school
shock doctrine, US imperialism seeking to control resources in the south
of the American continent. What do you lot think?
Here is that happening. Oh wow, yeah, it's pretty intense. They're
just lowered down. Who's these badasses that are getting
lowered down? Look at that, they're doing that in real life.
Check it out. Getting lowered down on ropes.
This is Trump announcing it so we can get a hand. Well thank you very much, it's
been an interesting day from the standpoint of news.
As you probably know, we've just seized a tanker on the coast of Venezuela,
large tanker, very large. Largest one ever seized actually.
And other things are happening, so you'll be seeing that
later and you'll be talking about that later with some other people.
Interested in the seizure of this tanker, what happens to the oil
on this ship? Well we keep it I guess. Jake, what are people saying in the comments?
Do people like see this as a kind of like imperialist colonial grab or do
people think, oh this is what you have to do when you're in a conflict with
Venezuela. Venezuela's the nexus of power and this is what I heard. Let me know in
the comments and chat if you agree with this. What I heard was now Ukraine
and Russia's gone so crazy with revelations around
corruption and embezzlement within Ukraine under Zelensky
that a kind of tacit geopolitical deal has been done between Trump and Putin
along the lines of, look we need that ---- in Venezuela, that oil and stuff
and Venezuela having deals with China and deals with Iran and deals with you
lot. That can't go on no more. You stay out of this Venezuela
situation and we'll back off out of Ukraine. Is it that?
Is that how geopolitics works? Let me know in the comments
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