Theft? What are we, Russia?
this post was submitted on 11 Dec 2025
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We know which daddy he wants...
Special Boarding Operation.
Well as long as it’s special.
So why exactly is Russia's shadow fleet still allowed to continue?
Well, it's a shadow fleet. It's not like they're announcing they're Russian ships, making it easy to grab them.
We know many of the ships. Grabbing them is not hard.
As in "Oil is a drug"?
He obviously is unaware that oil has to be refined. And the U.S does not do that. We actually already have a ton of oil. But we sell it. And buy refined from other countries.
It's kinda all stupid but yeah we can't use crude oil.
The infographic show explains.
Not sure why you think the US doesn’t refine oil. The southern coastline in particular refines a lot of crude oil.
https://scalar.usc.edu/works/petroleum-refineries-and-the-future/map-of-us-oil-refineries
Doesn't the US refine light sweet crude while Venezuela oil is heavy crude so US refineries can't do anything with it?
Maybe I mis understood that video I linked or they have some wrong information.
My understanding is we get the product we use to make gasoline from other countries and can't create it here.
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Eve if it were the case that the US could not refine it, they could still just sell it along to someone who could....